Schedule

8:30 – 8:50 Registration
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
9:15 – 11:00 Computer Implemented Inventions in Europe

Moderator: Wolrad Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont, LL.M. IP (GWU), MIPLC
9:15 – 9:50 The Practice of the European Patent Office
Dr. Jörg Machek, Direktor, European Patent Office
9:50 – 10:25 The Practice of the German Patent & Trademark Office and the German Federal Patent Court
Christian Appelt, Boehmert & Boehmert
10:25 – 11:00 The Case Law of the German Federal Court of Justice
Prof. Dr. Peter Meier-Beck, Judge at the German Federal Court of Justice
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:10 Computer Implemented Inventions in Japan

Moderator: Prof. Dr. Heinz Goddar, University of Bremen/MIPLC
  Obtaining Patents for Computer Implemented Inventions in Japan
11:30 – 12:00 Keiko Kawakami, Ikeuchi, Sato & Partner
12:00 – 12:30 Yutaka Osawa, Osawa Patent Office
12:30 – 13:10 Enforcement of Patents on Computer Implemented Inventions in Japan
Prof. Dr. Katsuya Tamai, RCAST, University of Tokyo
13:10 - 14:30 Lunch Break
Cafeteria of the European Patent Office
14:30 – 16:00 Computer Implemented Inventions in U.S.
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Joseph Straus, MIPLC
14:30 – 15:15 Obtaining Patents for Computer Implemented Inventions in the U.S.A.
Prof. Martin J. Adelman, The George Washington University Law School
15:15 – 16:00 Enforcing Patents for Computer Implemented Inventions in the U.S.
The Honorable Randall R. Rader, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
16:00 – 17:00 Panel Discussion
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Joseph Straus, MIPLC
Panelists:
Martin Adelman, Christian Appelt, Keiko Kawakami, Jörg Machek, Peter Meier-Beck, Randall R. Rader, Katsuya Tamai
17:00 Conference Closing