Panel 1:
How US Patent Enforcement Decline Elevated the UPC as the Global Forum for Injunctive Relief | November 20, 2025
Instructor(s)
Steve Akerley, InterDigital, Inc.
Terry Rea, GW Law, and former Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for IP and Acting Director of the USPTO
Andrei Iancu, Sullivan & Cromwell and former Director, USPTO
Wayne Stacy, Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Panel 2:
UPC Caseload Statistics, Forum-Shopping Dynamics, and Preliminary Injunction Grant Rates Through 2025 | November 20, 2025
Instructor(s)
Marc Lauzeral, Schertenleib Avocats
Carl-Alexander Dinges,Bonabry
Yasmine Azzaoui, Bonabry
Steve Carlson, Robins Kaplan
Rajvinder Jagdev, Powell Gilbert
Panel 3:
UPC Defensive Strategy From the Inside: Protective Letters, Preemptive Revocation, and Saisie Preparedness | November 20, 2025
Instructor(s)
Avi Schwartz, Edwards Lifesciences
Mark Schildkraut, Stanley Black & Decker
Ari Laakkonen, Powell Gilbert
Steve Carlson, Robins Kaplan
Panel 4:
How UPC Judges Ensure Uniformity, Enforce Front-Loading, and Approach Injunctions and Ireland’s Accession|November 20, 2025
Instructor(s)
Judge Klaus Grabinski, President of the UPC, member of the Presidium and Presiding Judge of the 1st section of the UPC CoA
Judge Camille Lignieres, President of the Paris Local Division, member of the Presidium
Marc Lauzeral, Schertenleib Avocats
Panel 5:
Invalidity Challenges at the EPO, UPC, and PTAB: Forum Selection, Inventive Step Divergence, and the Collapse of IPR Institution Rates | November 20, 2025
Instructor(s)
Yasmine Azzaoui, Bonabry
Farheena Rasheed, former Solicitor and Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property Law, USPTO
Alexander Harguth, Bonabry
Jeff Kushan, Sidley Austin, LLP
Panel 6:
UPC Venue Selection, Preliminary Injunction Urgency Doctrine, and Competition Law as a Defense to Disproportionate Patent Injunctions | November 20, 2025
Instructor(s)
Marc Lauzeral, Schertenleib Avocats
Ari Laakkonen, Powell Gilbert
Alexander Harguth, Bonabry
Steve Carlson, Robins Kaplan
Primer:
How the Unified Patent Court Reshaped Pan-European Patent Enforcement Strategy for US Companies| November 20, 2025
Instructor(s)
Steven Carlson, Partner, Robins Kaplan LLP
Konstantin Schallmoser, Patent Litigator, Bonalumi Attorneys
Wayne Stacy, Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology