On December 2, 2023, we hosted the 12th Annual Waseda-Penn Global Patent Law Conference! As usual, the program featured two panels with distinguished speakers from the judiciary, IP law academia, and legal practitioners, as follows:

Part 1: Hot Issues in the Areas of Novelty & Non-obviousness

Moderator: Masabumi Suzuki, Professor, Waseda University School of Law

Panelists      

The Honorable Scott Boalick, Chief Judge, USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Polk Wagner, Professor, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Co-Director, CTIC

The Honorable Tamotsu Shoji, Presiding Judge, Intellectual Property High Court of Japan

The Honorable Atsuhiro Furuta, Administrative Judge, Japanese Patent Office

Yoshiyuki Tamura, Professor, University of Tokyo School of Law

Part 2: Court-Led Patent Dispute ADR 

Moderator: Christoph Rademacher, Professor, Waseda University of Law

Panelists

The Honorable Takafumi Kokubu, Presiding Judge, Tokyo District Court

The Honorable Christopher Burke, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Delaware

The Honorable Ryuichi Shitara, Chairman, Soei Patent & Law Firm; former Chief Judge, Intellectual Property High Court

Eric Stone, Partner, Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone

Luke McDonagh, Assistant Professor, The London School of Economics and Political Science