Brussels IP Summit 2010

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The 4th pan-European Intellectual Property summit returns on December 2 & 3, 2010 with a wealth of plenary sessions and workshops.

Already more than 150 delegates
and 100 speakers from 25 countries*

(*as of 31/07/2010)

AHEAD OF SCHEDULE!

Confirmed keynote speakers

Michel Barnier

Commissioner for Internal Market & Services

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Neelie Kroes

Vice-President, Commissioner for the Digital Agenda

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Karel de Gucht

Commissioner for Trade

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Benoît Battistelli

President

EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE

Jürgen R. Thumann

President

BUSINESSEUROPE

Chairman

HEITKAMP & THUMANN Group

António Campinos

President

OHIM (Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market)

Margot Fröhlinger

Director of the Knowledge Economy, MARKT DG

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

100+ industry representatives confirmed as speakers and registrants including:

AB Volvo Group
Air Liquide
Alcatel-Lucent
Alstom
Arla Foods
ASML
Bacardi & Company
BNP Paribas
Bracco
Caterpillar
Chanel
Coller Capital
Coty
Deloitte
Dow Corning
DSM
Du Pont de Nemours
E-Bay
Electrolux
E.on
Ericsson
Essilor
Esteve
France Télécom
General Electric
Gilde Buy Out Partners
Google
Google books
Henkel
IBBC
IMEC
…

Intel Corporation
Intellectual Ventures
IPXI Holding
Johnson Matthey
KPMG
Lacoste
Lafarge
La Poste
L'Oréal
Mars Inc.
McKinsey & Company
Michelin
Microsoft
MIH Group/Naspers
MondoBiotech
Monsanto
Motorola
Mylan, inc.
Nestlé
Nike
Nokia
Northrop Grumman
Novartis
Open Invention Network
Oracle
Pernod Ricard
Pfizer
Philip Morris
Philips IP & Standards
Porsche
PPR Group

PriceMinister.com
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Qualcomm
Renault
Research In Motion
Richemont
Robert Bosch
Rolls Royce
Roquette Frères
Royal KPN
Sagem
Sandoz
Sanofi-Aventis
Sax.Net
Servier
Sisvel
Solvay
Tandberg
Thomson
Time Warner
TNT Express
TomTom
Total
Unisys
University of Michigan
Virbac
Vivendi
Vodafone
Xtralis
Yahoo!
Yara International

• Workshops: 70+ corporate case studies

16 streams, 36 workshops: 75+ corporate case studies
Angle: business-focused, horizontal/vertical topics, benchmarks and case studies

• Angle: business-focused, horizontal/vertical topics, benchmarks and case studies

Day I \ Thursday 2nd, December 2010
WORKSHOPS' STREAMS 1 – 8
1. Trade Marks	2. Patent Reforms I	3. Co-operative IP	4. IP & Trade
5. Domain Names	6. Industry Challenges	7. IP Business Assets	8. IP & Competition

Day II \ Friday 3rd, December 2010
WORKSHOPS' STREAMS 9 – 16
9. Anti-counterfeiting I	10. Patent Reforms II	11. IP Finance	12. Global IP Strategies
13. Anti-counterfeiting II	14. IP Best Practices	15. New IP Challenges	16. Arbitration, Mediation

The most important
event of the year
for everyone involved in IP.

> To become a Sponsor or Partner: Patrice Cros, pc@premiercercle.com (Brussels)

> For information about the programme: François Morel, fm@premiercercle.com (Paris)

> To register one or more delegates: Bérengère Delescluse, bd@premiercercle.com (Brussels)