Speakers

• Bavarian Nordic, Li Westerlund, Vice President Global IP
• AstraZeneca, Göran Lerenius, Deputy General Counsel
• Rockwool International A/S, Arne Kraglund, Department Manager Group Patents
• European Patent Office, John Beatty, Raising the Bar Office Manager
• Astex Therapeutics Ltd., Lyn Leaper, Senior Vice President of Intellectual Property
• Martin Professionals A/S, Henrik Villumsen, General Counsel
• Shell, David Koris, General Counsel, Head of Intellectual Property
• STMicroelectronics N.V., Philippe Rouzet, Director IP Strategy, IP Licensing
• Microsoft, Nanna-Louise Linde, Director, Legal and Corporate Affairs Northern Europe and Benelux
• RPX, Thomas Westerlund, Vice President, Structured Acquisition
• Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP, Timothy J. May, Partner
• China Patent Agent (H.K.) Ltd., Mr. WU Yuhe,Director of Legal Affairs Department, Senior Patent Attorney & Attorney-at-law
• Evalueserve, Rahul Verma, Assistant Vice President IP
• Thomson Reuters
• Managing IP, James Nurton, Editor
• Allied Security Trust (AST), Dan McCurdy, Chief Executive Officer
• Thomson Reuters, Bob Stembridge, Customer Relations Manager
• CPA Global, John Pryor, Vice President for Patent Portfolio

Li Westerlund
Vice President, Global Intellectual Property (IP)
Bavarian Nordic Inc.

Li has about 15 years’ experience in the sector of IP law, with particular focus on patent law. Li currently serves as Vice President, Global Intellectual Property (IP) at Bavarian Nordic Inc. Before joining Bavarian Nordic in 2004, she served for more than three years as Senior Associate at the Swedish law firm, RydinCarlsten and as European Legal Specialist at the U.S. law firm, McKenna Long & Aldridge, L.L.P. Prior to these positions, she worked as a legal intern at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) for its current chief judge. In 2004, Li was appointed Professor of Law at Linköping University in Sweden. Preceding these positions, she worked as a legal research assistant and as a regular lecturer at Stockholm University and at the Karolinska Institute. Li was also appointed junior judge while serving as a law clerk at Swedish courts between 1994 -1996. From 2005 to 2007 Li served on the Board of Directors of ZACCO A/S – Patents – Trademarks – Design (Denmark, Sweden, Norway) and from 2005-2009 on the Board of Directors for mNemoscience GmbH.

Thomas Westerlund
Vice President, Structured Acquisitions
RPX Corporation

Thomas Westerlund currently holds the position, Vice President Structured Acquisitions at RPX Corporation, focusing on Intellectual Property transactions of more complicated nature. Mr Westerlund has 15 years of experience in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Intellectual Property.

Prior to his employment at RPX Mr. Westerlund worked for Nokia Corporation for 10 years. During his tenure at Nokia Corporation, he spent 7 years with Nokia's M&A department investigating and executing strategic acquisitions, divestments and joint ventures in various technology areas. He also spent 3 years with Nokia's Intellectual Property department establishing and heading Nokia's IP acquisition, divestment and investment practice. Prior to this, Mr. Westerlund served at Sonera Capital, the Mergers & Acquisitions arm of Sonera, for 4 years. During his time with Sonera he was an integral part of establishing Sonera Capital’s M&A strategy as well as executing on it.

He has also served on the board of several European technology firms. Mr. Westerlund holds a Masters degree in Economics from Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland.

Mr Göran Lerenius
Deputy General Counsel
Astra Zeneca

Mr Lerenius is a lawyer with a broad experience from the pharmaceutical industry for almost 30 years. Mr Lerenius has served as General Counsel for Astra AB and AstraZeneca Plc 1984 - 2008 and was Company Secretary for Astra AB for 11 years. Today Mr Lerenius is responsible for AstraZeneca´s global Intellectual Property Litigation team and is based at Södertälje in Sweden.

John Beatty
Raising the Bar Office Manager & Patent Procedures Coordinator
European Patent Office

John joined the European Patent Office in 2001 as an examiner in the field of computing. Since 2008 he has been Office Manager for the Raising the Bar programme and more recently is the practice and procedure coordinator in Directorate General 1 - Operations. He holds a degree in electrical and electronic engineering, is an MBA and an MTech in computing.

Harri Honkasalo
Director of Patenting
Legal & IP Nokia

Harri has worked at Nokia since 1985. Between 1985 and 2000 he held different research engineer and manager positions in Nokia R&D, including experiences with standardisation and standards-related IPR activities. In year 2000 he joint Nokia’s IPR department and is currently holding a position as Director, Patenting, Legal and IP, being responsible for Nokia’s patent filing and prosecution as well as patent portfolio management activities. Harri received his M.S. from Helsinki University of Technology in 1986 and has published about 10 papers in international conferences and journals.

David Koris
General Counsel, Head of IP
Shell

David has been an IP counsel for the last 26 years with broad experience in all phases of IP practice. Currently serving as the General Counsel, Head of IP for Shell International B.V. in The Hague, Mr. Koris is responsible for all aspects of technology protection and IP asset management. In addition to managing the IP organization, Mr. Koris is a partner in the technology planning team with responsibilities for leading Shell’s businesses in the creation, development and management of IP strategies that optimize the value of IP assets for the varied technologies and business objectives of the organization.

Mr. Koris began his career in a law firm in Washington, DC where he developed experience in IP practice and ITC litigation. In the following years Mr. Koris has held several executive positions leading the IP efforts of a number of multinational companies including GE’s Advanced Materials Business, Tyco Worldwide Services, Kendall Company and GTE – Precision Materials Business. Mr. Koris is a board member of the Intellectual Property Owners Association, the Chairman of ICC’s Commission on Intellectual Property and has been a speaker at a number of conferences on the role of IP asset management in M&A practice, trademark and copyright issues.

Mr. Koris was born in the United States of America and spent his early years living in The Netherlands, Italy and England before pursing a Bachelors Degree in Chemistry from The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and his JD from Franklin Pierce Law Center of Concord, New Hampshire.

Mr. Koris is married with three children.

Henrik Villumsen
General Counsel
Martin Professional A/S

Henrik has been the General Counsel for Martin Professionals A/S since 2006, working with strategic IP matters. Since 2008, he has also been a member of the Committee of Legal Experts of the Confederation of Danish Industries. Before that, he worked as Senior Specialist at Vestas Wind Systems A/S, external examiner at the University of Aarhus and Legal Counsel at Glud & Mastrand A/S.

Henrik is a qualified lawyer admitted to the Danish bar and to the Danish Appellate Courts (møderet for landsret) with additional LL.M at the University College of London. He is also versed in IP issues in China, having both professional experience in litigating in China and having attended the China Intellectual Property Summer Institute, Franklin Pierce Law and the Summer Law Scholl in China, University of Missouri-Kansas City/University of Peking, Beijing.

Henrik has written cc. 25 articles on intellectual property law and other legal topics, publicised in leading Danish and Scandinavian legal journals and newspapers and is an experienced lecturer, having lectured on IPR law at the University of Aalborg, amongst others.

Arne Kraglund
Department Manager Group Patents
Rockwool International A/S

Arne is heading the Group Patent department of Rockwool International A/S. He holds a master in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby and a bachelor of Commerce from Copenhagen Business School. He has been working with patents in the company for more than 15 years and the department is today responsible for all patent activities in the Rockwool Group.

Dr. Ming Deng
Chief Representative in Europe
China Patent Agent (H.K.) Ltd

Ming Deng received his B.S. in Semiconductor Physics and Elements in China, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Solid State Physics in Germany. He worked as a senior engineer and project leader in the field of semiconductor test and measurement for seven years. With his ten year experience as a Chinese patent attorney, he works now as the chief representative of China Patent Agent (H.K.) Ltd. in Europe.

Phd. Lyn Leaper
Senior Vice President Intellectual Property
Astex Therapeutics Ltd

Lyn Leaper is a European Patent Attorney who joined Astex as VP Intellectual Property in October 2002 from StratagemIPM where she provided IP management and strategic advice to medical and biotechnology companies. Previously she worked at Akzo Nobel NV and from 1999 was Director of Patents at Janssen Pharmaceutica NV (a Johnson & Johnson Company). She obtained a BSc in Biochemistry and a PhD in Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology before commencing a career in intellectual property at The Wellcome Foundation Ltd in 1988.

Nanna-Louise Linde
Director, Legal and Corporate Affairs Northern Europe and Benelux
Microsoft

Nanna- Louise is the Director, Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA), Microsoft Northern Europe, leading the legal and corporate affairs team in the Nordic countries and with responsibilities also over the BeNeLux area. She has worked at Microsoft since 2005 with different geographical areas. As a member of the LCA Leadership in Europe, Nanna-Louise is highly involved with the political, legal and strategic work of Microsoft in Europe, including having experiences with the IP Awareness program and IP external communication with governmental authorities regarding IP matters. She is a qualified lawyer with University degree from the Copenhagen University and has worked in private practice as a lawyer, both in Denmark and UK, where she advised clients on EU anti-trust law and IP law. She is an active member at the Legal Experts & Antitrust Committees at the Danish Industry, at the Legal Committee of the Association of IT Companies, Women on Board, Register of Danish Female Directors and Women of Influence, a female network selected by the executive search company Hedrick Struggles.

Rahul Verma
Assistant Vice President IP
Evalueserve

Dr. Rahul Verma is the Assistant Vice President in the Intellectual Property division. At Evalueserve, he has helped to develop new templates and products for deliverables that have added immense value and helped create new solutions for pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients, including knowledge technology solutions. He has spoken at many National and International events including: Importance of IP and destination India for IP outsourcing at the International Biotechnology Conference ‘Bio 2006’, Emerging services in IP at the Danish Patent Day in Copenhagen, and on ‘Innovative Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management of IP for Business and Industry’ at an event organized by WIPO. He is an MD and did his Masters in Biomedical engineering specializing in non-invasive cancer diagnostics.

Dan McCurdy
Chief Executive Officer
Allied Security Trust

Dan McCurdy was named Chief Executive Officer of Allied Security Trust in August 2008. He is responsible for management of the Trust, patent acquisition and divestiture negotiations, and membership expansion, having also a broad experience in NPEs (sometimes called “patent trolls”) issues, amongst others, having worked with patent pools to financially support the selection and filing of inter partes re-examinations of patents held by NPEs. From 2001 through 2008, Mr. McCurdy was founding CEO of ThinkFire, an intellectual property advisory firm providing services to many of the world’s leading technology companies and private From 2000 - 2001, Mr. McCurdy was president of Lucent Technologies’ Intellectual Property Business. There, he managed 300 employees generating more than $500 million in annual revenues from the licensing of 26,000 worldwide patents. Prior to joining Lucent, he served as founding vice president of IBM’s Life Sciences business unit, and vice president of corporate development for CIENA corporation where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions. Mr. McCurdy received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina. He served on the Intellectual Property Policy committee of the United States’ National Academies, and recently chaired an effort for the Center for American Progress providing intellectual property policy recommendations to the incoming Obama Administration.

James Nurton
Editor
Managing IP

James Nurton has worked for Managing Intellectual Property since 1996. He studied modern history at Oxford University and Birkbeck College, London and trained as a journalist with Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC. He has written and spoken widely on IP-related issues and has chaired numerous conferences and discussions.

James is managing editor of the leading global magazine for IP owners, Managing Intellectual Property, and the weekly newsletter MIP Week. He has also been editor of the INTA Daily News, published during the INTA Annual Meeting, since its launch in 2003.

Timothy May
Partner
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP

Timothy May directs his patent practice on a broad range of complex technologies, including automotive safety systems, motors, semiconductors, software, and electronics. He counsels clients in all areas of United States patent practice, ranging from patent procurement to opinion preparation to litigation before U.S. district courts.

Mr. May has written hundreds of patent applications and manages the patent portfolios for several companies, from high-tech startups to those in the Fortune 500. He helps clients evaluate inventions in the context of business objectives and applies his extensive prosecution experience to develop internal patent procurement strategies and procedures for clients. Amongst others, he has represented Robert Bosch GmbH in a patent infringement action against Delphi Corp. concerning vehicle safety technology, resulting in a favourable claim construction ruling and a favorable settlement and has managed the patent portfolio of one of the world’s leading financial services companies; work includes advising on patent portfolio development and enforcement, and counseling on product clearance issues.

Mr. May also counsels clients on patent validity and infringement. He has written numerous opinions to defend clients against charges of willful patent infringement, and frequently negotiates directly with opposing counsel over such charges. In addition, he regularly advises clients about infringement risks during the design process and has coordinated clearance studies requiring the evaluation of competitor patents. He is a frequent lecturer on .U.S. patent law and has spoken at numerous conferences in Europe.

Bob Stembridge
Customer Relations Manager
Thomson Reuters

Bob Stembridge graduated from University of Sussex, UK with an Honours degree in Chemistry. He joined Derwent (one of the founding components of the IP Solutions business of Thomson Reuters) in 1980 and has held various roles in editorial, marketing, sales and product development over the years. Leaving in 1988 for interludes working as Senior Information Analyst specialising in patent analytics at British Petroleum and European Sales Liaison with Dialog, he returned to Thomson Reuters in 1996 and most recently became Customer Relations Manager with responsibility for liaison with customer user groups for the organisation.

He is a member of ACS, CILIP and PIUG, and is Secretary of CEPIUG and current Chair of PATMG. He was elected to the CSA Trust Board of Trustees in February 2007.

John Pryor
Vice President for Patent Portfolio Optimisation
CPA Global

John Pryor is Vice President for Patent Portfolio Optimisation at CPA Global, the world's leading provider of legal services outsourcing, including intellectual property, litigation support, document review and contract management. Established in 1969, CPA Global provides lifecycle management services for intellectual property (patents, designs and trademarks), including searching, watching, renewals, and portfolio strategy. Through its successful diversification strategy, CPA Global has also established itself as a leader in the growing market for broader outsourced legal services. John is focussed on providing optimisation solutions to help CPA Global’s clients generate better returns on their IP investments. John has previously worked in strategic consultancy at Andersen and sales & marketing with Procter & Gamble. He has an MBA from Warwick Business School and BSc Joint Hons in Biochemistry and Physiology from Kings College, London. He has an extensive knowledge of IP strategy and a thorough understanding of how businesses can best manage their intellectual property.

In 2009, Intellectual Asset Magazine named John one of the top leading IP strategists from around the world in the IAM 250.