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Programme 29-30 January 2019

Joint ITU-NGMN Conference “Licensing practices in 5G industry segments"
Geneva, Switzerland, 29-30 January 2019

Contact: tsbevents@itu.int

Day 1, Tuesday 29 January 2019

09:30	Welcome and Registration
10:00	Welcome by the Conference Moderator, Stefan Engel-Flechsig, NGMN
10:10	Opening Remarks by ITU and NGMN Reinhard Scholl, Deputy-Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, International Telecommunication Union Peter Meissner, CEO and Member of the NGMN Board [ Presentation ]
10:30	Session 1: Overview on Status of 5G Implementation in Industry Segments This session will describe the status of 5G deployment and applications, focusing on the most prominent use cases. Moderator: Peter Meissner, CEO and Member of the NGMN Board Michael Robinson, AT&T [ Presentation ] Philippe Besson, Orange, Chair of TTI NGMN [ Presentation ] Sylvia Lu, u-Blox [ Presentation ]
11:30	Session 2: Overview on Standard Essential Patents (SEP) Licensing Practices This session will bring participants up-todate on standard essential patents (SEPs), FRAND licensing commitments, and related issues regarding the diversity of scope of FRAND licensing commitments, the diversity of open source software licenses and the availability of patent pool(s). Moderator: Amy Marasco, Microsoft Jay Jurata, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP [ Presentation ] Monica Magnusson, Ericsson [ Presentation ]
12:30	Lunch Break
13:30	Session 3: Licensing Practices in Industry Segments in Detail This session will give details on current licensing practices and how they may be impacted by the convergence of telecommunication (ICT) and industry segments. Moderator: Joe Siino, Via Licensing Teemu Soininen, Nokia Matthias Schneider, Audi Thomas Buchholz, Bosch Home Appliances [ Presentation ] Noriko Fukuoka, Panasonic [ Presentation ]
15:00	Coffee & Tea Break
15:30	Session 4: Requirements on Patent Pools/Platforms This session will discuss how patent pools/platforms are formed and intended to work; the pros and cons of pools/platforms, and the needs and perspectives of different stakeholders (licensors, licensees and pool administrators). Moderator: Garrard Beeney, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Taraneh Maghame, Via Licensing Mattia Fogliacco, Sisvel Bill Geary, MPEGLA Luke McLeroy, Avanci
17:00	Session 5: Panel Discussion Day 1 - Speakers and session chairs of Day 1 This session will engage the audience and the speakers of Day 1 in an interactive dialogue to discuss key issues with respect to licensing practices and patent pools. Moderator: Garrard Beeney, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
18:00	Close of Day 1
18:30	Apéro with finger food

Day 2, Wednesday 30 January 2019

09:00	Welcome and Registration
09:15	Welcome by Conference Moderator
09:30	Session 6: Requirements for Increasing Transparency and Assessing Essentiality of SEPs in 5G This session will discuss the approaches being taken by some stakeholders to address greater transparency as to what patents are or may be SEPs, and whether identified patents are in fact “essential” to implementation of a standard.The discussion will include a description of related objectives, issues and challenges. Moderator: Bill Geary, MPEGLA Serge Raes, NGMN, IPR Forum Chair [ Presentation ] Emilio Davila-Gonzalez, European Commission Michael Fröhlich, EPO Christian Loyau, ETSI [ Presentation ]
11:00	Coffee & Tea Break
11:30	Session 7: Perspectives for Licensing for Licensors and Licensees in 5G This session will discuss what are possible best practices and commonalities for SEPs licensing in the various industry segments and help the participants to understand the present practices and related issues. Moderator: Serge Raes, NGMN, IPR Forum Chair Takeshi Tsuru, Japanese Patent Office (JPO) [ Presentation ] Kerry Miller, Chair of the CEN-CENELEC Workshop Agreement SEP 1 “Principles and guidance for licensing Standard Essential Patents in 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT), including the Industrial Internet” [ Presentation ] Dave Djavaherian, Vice-Chair of the CEN-CENELEC Workshop Agreement SEP 2 “SEP Licensing Best Practices” [ Presentation ] Keith Bergelt, Open Invention Network [ Presentation ]
13:00	Lunch Break
14:30	Session 8 : Issues for Stakeholders – Panel session This session will identify and collect the issues discussed during the 2 days of the conference and focus on main key issues to be addressed in the coming years. What are the open issues and how to resolve them? This final session will engage the speakers of both days in an interactive dialogue with the audience to discuss key issues with respect to the different stakeholders’ expectations and related issues. Moderator: Harald Wanjura, Co-Chair IPR Forum, NGMN Hung Ling, Rapporteur IPR ad-hoc Group, ITU
16:00	Closing remarks by Hosts
16:30	Farewell Coffee & Tea

*To be confirmed