RCLIP is looking forward to co-hosting the 15th Waseda-Penn Global Patent Law Conference. This year’s conference will be co-hosted with the University of Pennsylvania Law School and with LMU Munich. Confirmed speakers and panelists include:

• The Hon. Renée Bumb (Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey)

• The Hon. Florence Butin (President of the UPC Court of First Instance)

• The Hon. Todd Hughes (United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit)

• The Hon. Rian Kalden (President Judge, UPC Court of Appeals)

• The Hon. Minoru Masuda (Chief Judge, IP High Court of Japan)

• The Hon. Kenji Amano (Judge, IP High Court of Japan)

• The Hon. Atsuhiro Furuta (Administrative Judge, Japan Patent Office)

• Prof. Thomas Cotter (University of Minnesota)

• Prof. Sapna Kumar (University of Minnesota)

• Prof. Matthias Leistner (LMU Munich)

• Prof. Ichiro Nakayama (Hokkaido University)

• Prof. Christoph Rademacher (Waseda University)

• Prof. Masabumi Suzuki (Waseda University)

• Prof. Polk Wagner (University of Pennsylvania)

• Prof. Christopher Yoo (University of Pennsylvania)

• Attorneys and in-house speakers to be added

Details regarding the conference agenda, post-conference reception, and how to RSVP will be made available by early April.