Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Next week s European Commission webinar on SEP enforcement: speakers include USPTO s chief policy officer Mary Critharis (and yours truly, too)
On Wednesday (May 19, 2021), the fifth webinar of the European Commission s popular series on standard-essential patent (SEP) topics will be held. Its title is Enforcement of Standard-Essential Patents - current bottlenecks and possible solutions. In a previous post I mentioned I was going to be among the speakers.
Meanwhile, the EC s Directorate-General for the Internal Market (DG GROW) has published the agenda. After Judge Edgar Brinkman s (The Hague) welcome speech, Mary Critharis, the Chief Policy Offier and Director for International Affairs of the United States Patent & Trademark Office will deliver a keynote addressd. I m sure many of you will be as interested as I am in listening to Mrs. Critharis s speech. After a recent decision by the DOJ to downgrade an implementer-hostile policy statement by Trump s a