US Patent Reform/EU Unitary Patent: how the two systems have increased synergies and inspired each other  \ Extending work sharing between Patent Offices: PPH agreements and regional initiatives (PROSUR…)  \ Convergence on patentability: is common ground within reach?

Benchmarking patent quality trends according to location, application classes, corporate strategies 
\ When to use PPH and PCT-PPH? Are any perverse effects possible?  \ Increase in BRICS PCT filings 
\ How to find your way around the market for adequate local advice?

Growing Markets for Technologies: the need for companies to implement worldwide strategies  \ Selling and licensing IP: are Emerging countries the new Eldorado?  \ How to find and secure the right partners for the deal?  \ Overcoming fears and potential obstacles: from specific local conditions or laws to transaction costs  \ Due diligence: can you perform it like you do in your home country? Do standards for valuation differ?

Regular IP that can't be enforced: is recourse to courts effective?  \ Irregular IP and "junk patents": abusive troll litigations in sight?  \ Damages: do they compensate adequately, shall they deter?  \ Interim injunctions: possible, or not?  \ Total costs of owning + enforcing IP

Tech. transfer: enabling tool in a fair world? Encouraging without forcing?  \ Exchanging know-how and managing IP with R&D units and companies in BRICS  \ Foreign investment and opening of subsidiaries in Europe & US: Which IP Strategy? Costs & differences? Legal/jurisdictional tools?

Is emergency a valid argument of exemption for governments?  \ Brazilian pipeline system  \ China : invention or product patents?  \ Biosimilars: (1) the issue of data exclusivity. (2) Will process patents become mandatory in India?  \ Are providers of green techs at risk of any restraints on their IPR?  \ Fast-track green patents

Comparing regimes in BRICS countries: what do they offer? Innovation incentives and their impacts on intellectual assets  \ The Chinese 'Patent Box' and the new R&D tax regime in Brazil  \ Transfer pricing: workable and non-workable configurations

Most successful actions: measuring impact on the ground  \ Follow-up: increasing efficiency with locally-based in-house coordinators?  \ How do companies work w/ lawyers, private investigators, and authorities? How do co-operations between police / custom authorities work on a worldwide scale?  \ Online fakes: Wiping out counterfeiting at source  \ Legal & investigations' costs, storage and destruction of goods: is the result worth the investment?