Program

20:00-20:05	Greeting KOIKE Hiroshi, Justice, Supreme Court
20:05-21:45	Panel Discussion(Court) ➀The Current State of the Doctrine of Equivalents in Patent Infringement Suits ➁Operation of Court Proceedings under the Impacts of COVID-19. Moderators TAKAHASHI Aya, Judge, Intellectual Property High Court SHIROYAMA Yasufumi, Partner, attorney-at-law, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune Panelists Japan OTAKA Ichiro Chief Judge, Intellectual Property High Court KUMAGAI Daisuke, Judge, Intellectual Property High Court SAGARA Yuriko, Attorney at Law, Partner of Nakamura & Partners United States of America Paul T. Meiklejohn, Attorney at Law, DORSEY & WHITNEY L.L.P United Kingdom Colin Birss, Justice, High Court of England and Wales, Chancery Division (in charge of the Patents Court) Germany Klaus Bacher, Presiding Judge, Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) MC 　MANABE Mihoko, Judge, Intellectual Property High Court
21:45-21:50	Break
21:50-21:55	Greeting KASUTANI Toshihide, Commissioner, Japan Patent Office
21:55-23:35	Panel Discussion(Patent Office) ➀Comparative study regarding inventive step based on a hypothetical case ➁Measures taken by each office for addressing issues arising from COVID-19 Moderator YAMASHITA Takashi, Director-General, Trial and Appeal Department, Japan Patent Office Panelists Japan HATTORI Satoshi, Executive Chief Administrative Judge, Trial and Appeal Department, Japan Patent Office TSURUOKA Toshihiko, Presiding Judge, Intellectual Property High Court United States of America Scott R. Boalick, Chief Judge, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, United States Patent and Trademark Office KIM Michael, Vice Chief Judge, Patent Trial and Appeal Board, United States Patent and Trademark Office Europe Carl Josefsson, President, Boards of Appeal, European Patent Office Jean-Michel SCHWALLER, Chairman, Technical Board of Appeal, European Patent Office
23:35-23:40	Closing Remarks ARA Tadashi, President of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations