SEMINAR. Patenting Software and Computer-Related Inventions. Recent Developments in the U.S. and Europe

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1 Eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung von mit den Erfahrungen und dem Wissen der Experten: Dr. Conrad Cramphorn Giesecke & Devrient, München Richard Gilly Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Washington, USA Brian L. Michaelis Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Boston, USA Tilman Vossius Barkhoff Reimann Vossius, Rechtsanwälte Wirtschaftsprüfer Steuerberater, München

2 About In the wake of recent court decisions in the U.S. and in Europe, companies may wish to revisit their strategies for pursuing patents for software and computer-related inventions. In this seminar, a U.S. patent lawyer will review how the Bilski decision by the U.S. Supreme Court and subsequent decisions applying Bilski may require companies to adopt new approaches to patenting software or computer-related inventions. Similarly, as for Europe, a European patent attorney will talk about the recent decision G 3/08 of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office and its impact upon the prosecution of software inventions before the EPO. Panelists will also review how recent patent infringement cases in the U.S. and in Europe may affect patent and claim drafting strategies, and how to develop an effective and efficient international patent portfolio with applications and claims that comply with both recent US and European case law. A case study will be presented and the industry perspective reviewed. Participants Entrepreneurs and IP-Manager of Technology Industry- und -Service-Enterprises Corporate Development Manager New Business Manager.

3 Program: 09:00 09:15 Welcome Curt J. Winnen Munich Network 09:15 09:30 09:30 10:15 Introductions and Opening Remarks Software and Computer-related Inventions in the U.S.: The Post- Bilski Landscape Tilman Vossius Barkhoff Reimann Vossius, Rechtsanwälte Wirtschaftsprüfer Steuerberater, München Richard Gilly Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Washington, USA 10:15 10:45 Coffee Break 10:45 11:30 11:30 12:00 Computer-related Inventions in Europe after G 3/08: Business as usual? How have Software Patents fared in recent Infringement Cases? Dr. Conrad Cramphorn Giesecke & Devrient, München Brian L. Michaelis Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Boston, USA 12:00 12:45 Consolidated Strategies for Patent and Claim Drafting in View of current Case-law Richard Gilly / Dr. Conrad Cramphorn 12:45 14:00 Lunch Briefing

4 Speakers: Dr. Conrad Cramphorn is a European and German Patent Attorney. He studied physics in Göttingen, Santa Cruz, California and Munich specializing in theoretical astrophysics and did his Ph.D. thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics. The research conducted for his Ph.D. thesis included the programming of extensive computer simulations of radiation processes in the vicinity of supermassive blackholes for deriving constraints on the activity of these astrophysical objects in the past. He entered the field of intellectual property in 2001 by starting as a patent attorney trainee in a renowned law firm in Munich, where he later worked as a European and German Patent Attorney for national and international clients in the fields of physics, electrical and mechanical engineering and computer-implemented inventions. In 2010 Dr. Cramphorn has joined the patent department of the German high-tech company Giesecke & Devrient headquartered in Munich. Richard P. Gilly has counseled clients in the high-tech industry for almost 25 years. On behalf of a wide range of high-tech clients, he manages and prosecutes high-tech patent portfolios, orchestrates non-infringement defenses, works up patent assertion programs, develops patent litigation strategies, and has negotiated hundreds of IP licenses and technology-related agreements. His technical and legal proficiencies have enabled him to handle patent matters involving many and diverse technologies, whether embodied in medical devices, Internet and computer-related inventions, software systems, semiconductor manufacturing, complex mechanical systems, and chemical engineering applications.

5 Speakers: Brian L. Michaelis is Chair of Seyfarth Shaw s Intellectual Property Practice Group. He concentrates in all areas of intellectual property law and technology business practice. His practice includes intellectual property litigation and counseling, and validity and infringement analysis. He has testified as an expert on patent issues, including validity and non-infringement, and argued appeals before the United States Patent and Trademark Office Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Mr. Michaelis represents domestic and international clientele in technology business transactions involving intellectual property, including technology transfer and development agreement negotiation and drafting, technology spin-offs, private placements, acquisitions, and dispositions and joint ventures. Mr. Michaelis has also written and prosecuted numerous patent applications for electrical/electronic, electromechanical, and computer/software inventions in areas such as data processing and information technologies, medical devices and laboratory instrumentation, as well as business method and internet applications including e-commerce software, credit card processing, and bill payment systems. Tilman Vossius is a partner with the law firm of Barkhoff Reimann Vossius. Tilman represents national and international clients in several fields of intellectual property law, in particular unfair competition and antitrust law, trademark and design law, licensing, copyrights and patent law. He manages the European trademark portfolios of well known international companies. Before German courts, Tilman effected decisions which have been published in the media and trade journals. Results of his long lasting and successful professional work are inter alia trendsetting decisions in the fields of genuine use of trademarks on the internet, domain names, competition law and calculation of damages amounting to millions in the area of know-how protection.

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