Zurich IP Retreat 2017: Patents and Hindsight

This international retreat, organized by INGRES and ETH Zurich, will be held in honor of Dr. Dieter Brändle, the first President of the Swiss Federal Patent Court who will step back at the end of 2017. It will allow the opinion leaders in the law of innovation and technology from all over the world, including judges, litigators, patent attorneys, in-house lawyers and academics, to discuss one of the fundamental problems in patent law: The need to assess the state of the art without hindsight and knowledge of the invention. Friday, 8th September 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Welcome and Introduction (Stefan Bechtold, Tobias Bremi, Michael Ritscher) 13:30 Panel 1: The Hindsight Bias: Psychological Dimensions (Marco Kleine, Gregory Mandel, Aileen Oeberst, Mark Schweizer) 15:30 Coffee Break 16:00 Panel 2: Patentability Requirements: Solutions attempting to avoid Hindsight around the World (Richard Arnold, Graham Ashley, Rian Kalden, Kathrin Klett, Peter Meier-Beck, Kathleen O'Malley, Xiang Yu) 17:45 Panel 3: “Closest Prior Art” (Dana Beldiman, Dieter Brändle, Willem Hoyng) 18:30 Aperitif at the Lake Shore and Dinner Saturday, 9th September 9:00 Panel 4: Party Experts, Court Experts, Technical Judges (Richard Ebbink, Penny Gilbert, Miquel Montana, George Pappas, Robert Van Peursem) 10:00 Panel 5: The Objective Technical Problem (Christoph Ann, Diana Sternberg, Katherine Strandburg) 10:50 Coffee Break 11:20 Panel 6: Claim Construction and Infringement (Dieter Brändle, Klaus Grabinski, Robin Jacob, Peter Kather 12:10 Panel 7: Broadening the Perspective (Robin Jacob, Antoon Quaedvlieg, Beate Schmidt) 12:50 Closing Remarks (Dieter Brändle, Dieter Stauder) 13:15 Lunch