9th International Forum on

Freedom to Operate

Wednesday, May 09 to Thursday, May 10, 2012
Le Méridien Parkhotel Frankfurt, Frankfurt

Conference Chair:
Raymond Mandra, Partner, Fitzpatrick, Cella,
Harper & Scinto (USA)

Meet our Expert Faculty:
Giampiero De Luca, VP Intellectual Property,
Merck Serono (Switzerland)

Aalt van de Kuilen, President of the CEPIUG
(Confederacy of European Patent Information User Groups) (Netherlands)

Michael Eder, Partner, df. mp (Germany)

Bernd Hutter, Director, Head of Intellectual
Property, European Patent Attorney,
MorphoSys AG (Germany)

Michelle Jones, PhD, EPA CPA, Associate
Director IP, Astex Pharmaceuticals (UK)

Eric Ruhlmann, European Patent Attorney,
Director, Senior Patent Counsel, Actelion
Pharmaceuticals (Switzerland)

Gaye Ramazanoglu, Intellectual Property
Specialist – Patent and Trademark Attorney,
Sanovel (Turkey)

Marco Nievo, PhD EPA, IP and Competitive
Intelligence, Siena Biotech SPA (Italy)

Harry Kraft, Senior Patent Attorney, Ablynx
(Belgium)

Lorenzo Polenzani, R&D Strategy Manager,
Angelini (Italy)

Dr. Klaus-Peter Döpfer, European Patent Offi ce
Ilian Iliev, CEO, Cambridge IP (UK)

Otto Licks, Partner, Leonardos & Licks
Advogados (Brazil)

Raymond Mandra, Partner, Fitzpatrick, Cella,
Harper & Scinto (USA)

Jeroen den Hartog, PhD, Partner, European
and Dutch Patent Attorney, Hoyng Monegier (Netherlands)

Sandra Pohlman, Partner, df. mp (Germany)
Gareth Morgan, Partner, Winston & Strawn (UK)

Daniel Becker, Partner, Dechert (USA)

Gertjan Kuipers, Partner, De Brauw Blackstone
Westbroek (Netherlands)

Dr. Malathi Lakshmikumaran, Head (Life
Sciences), Lakshmi Kumaran & Sridharan (India)

Dr. Qinghong Xu, Partner, Lung Tin
International Intellectual Property Agent Ltd. (China)

Alex Denoon, Partner, Lawford Davis Denoon (UK)

Dr. Manja Epping, Partner, Taylor Wessing (Germany)

Joachim Wachenfeld, Partner, Vossius & Partner (Germany)

Henrik Skødt, Ph.D., European Patent Attorney,
Partner, Plougmann & Vingtoft (Denmark)

Ronald Eisenstein, Partner, Co-Leader Patents,
Nixon Peabody (USA)