Together with the University of Pennsylvania Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, we hosted the 13th Annual Waseda-Penn Global Patent Law Conference. Over the course of one day, a stellar faculty of experts from the US, Europe, and Japan provided insights on the protection and utilization of data as well as on the eligibility of AI-related inventions for patent protection.

10:00: Opening Remarks: Prof. Tatsuhisa Tamura (Dean, Waseda University School of Law)

10:05 - 12:30 Panel 1 Protection and Utilization of Data
Moderator: Prof. Masabumi Suzuki (Waseda University)

• Prof. Herbert Zech (Humboldt University Berlin)

• Prof. Christopher Yoo (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School)

• Hee-Eun Kim (Director of Competition Policy, Meta)

• Ms. Chizuru Suga (Director, Digital Economy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)

• Takafumi Ochiai (Head of the Policy Research Institute and Senior Partner, Atsumi & Sakai)

14:00 - 16:30 Panel 2 Patent-Eligible Subject Matter & AI Inventions
Moderator: Prof. Christoph Rademacher (Waseda University)

• Hon. Kara Stoll (United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit)

• Prof. Polk Wagner (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School)

• Prof. Alain Strowel (Université Catholique de Louvain)

• Mr. Noritane Kikitsu (Deputy Director, Examination Standards Office, JPO)

• Prof. Ichiro Nakayama (Hokkaido University）

• Masayuki Sakai (Patent Attorney, SIPTO)

Closing Remarks: Misao Shimizu (Former IP High Court Chief Judge; Partner, Yanagida & Partners)