POST CONFERENCE SEMINAR DAY - 14 SEPTEMBER 2006

A Special Focus on IPRs and Patents

Morning - A Legal Perspective on Mobile IPR

Led by: Juha Taipale, Partner, Technology, Media and IPR, Telecommunication, M&A, Finance and Capital Markets, Contracts and Commercial Law Krogerus Attorneys Ltd.

Objectives:

This seminar gives participants the unique opportunity to engage with a legal expert to understand the challenges, opportunities and current status of intellectual property rights in a fast evolving mobile environment.

Who Should Attend:

This is an excellent opportunity for operators, handset manufacturers, hardware developers, software solution providers and others involved in the mobile industry to clarify some of the legal issues in this complicated and controversial area.

Workshop Agenda:

• Examining the current IPR legal regime
• Legal perspective on IPR
• Hardware IP Licensing
• Understanding IPR Indemnities
• Challenges of Open Source and Dual Licensing schemes
• Licencing issues and opportunities
• The role of lawyers and the legal profession in this debate

Your Workshop Leader:

Mr. Juha Taipale has developed extensive practical skills within finance, corporate law, business, and international sales. Experience as an in-house counsel of an international corporation and as a manager of a technology company has helped him in developing an ability to understand the business and objectives of his clients.

Prior to his current role, Juha was previously Assistant General Counsel at the KONE Corporation, partner in Gilbert, Segall and Young and most recently before acting CEO at Bitboys Oy, a company in the development of graphics hardware IP (recently acquired by ATI Technologies).

Timetable
08.30 Registration and Coffee
09.00 Start of Morning Session
10.30 Networking refreshments
12.00 Close of Morning Session & Lunch

Afternoon - Unlocking Patent Value: Clarifying the Mobile Patents Landscape

Led by: Jonathan DeVile, Partner, D Young & Co.

Objectives:

This seminar gives delegates the opportunity to consider the current legal and technical scenario with respect to patents, and to understand in detail the opportunities - and concerns - faced by companies looking to invest and grow in an uncertain environment for mobile patents.

Who Should Attend:

This independent legal perspective is ideal for potential investors in the mobile space, and to help new and established industry players to clarify their position in this fastmoving, influential and complex space.

Workshop Agenda:

• Overview of current patent scenario - how much of a legal time-bomb is the patent question?
• Standardisation and patents within the mobile industry
• Patents and licensing issues associated with developing new products - what price innovation?
• Understanding the patent process - from filing to receiving a patent
• Managing a patent portfolio - maximising patent value in the mobile industry
• How do industry players currently use patents? Examination of cross licensing
• Case Studies:
• Sendo v. Orange
• The case of RIM v. NTP - understanding the differences in the patent process between the US and Europe
• Open discussion session

Your Workshop Leader:

Jonathan DeVile is a Patent Attorney & Partner at D. Young & Co in the UK. He has a Degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Manchester, and a PhD in Communications Research, University of Manchester.

He has extensive experience with D Young & Co in drafting and obtaining patent applications world-wide and contentious issues including litigation, oppositions, strategic assistance on infringement, licensing issues and due diligence matters, and has litigation experience in the case of Sendo v Orange.

He has patent experience with Siemens UK and Siemens AG Munich. From 1995-1999, Jonathan drafted and prosecuted patent applications in the fields of telecommunications, software, image and signal processing, sensors and radar, optical electronics and automotive engineering. He also worked with Siemens AG in opposing European patents relating mobile communications and contentious issues relating to telecommunications standards.

Timetable
13.00 Start of Afternoon Session
14.30 Networking Refreshments
16.00 Close of Seminar Day