2nd AnnuaL
IP Dealmakers
Europe
june 23-25, 2025
RoYAL LANCASTER LONDON
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About The Event
Driving IP Transactions
Experience the 2nd Annual IP Dealmakers Europe on June 23-25 at the Royal Lancaster London.
Following a highly successful debut, we are excited to return to London, bringing together a distinguished group of IP leaders from across Europe and beyond. This exclusive forum offers unparalleled opportunities to engage with key decision-makers, explore emerging trends, and participate in highly productive 1-to-1 meetings — fostering valuable connections and high-impact partnerships in the ever-evolving IP landscape.
This event will be co-located with the 2nd Annual LF Dealmakers Europe. Join us as we bring together the best IP Dealmakers and LF Dealmakers from across the globe for in-depth discussions, debate, and dealmaking.
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STATS FROM OUR 2024 ANNUAL FORUM
IP Dealmakers by the numbers
325
Makers
16
INTERACTIVE
SESSIONS
65
EXPERT
SPEAKERS
400+
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2024 AGENDA
DAY ONE: THURSDAY, 18 APRIL 2024
08.30 - 09.20
Registration & Breakfast
09.20 - 09.30
CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS
09.30 - 17.30
ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS
Participants have the option to schedule 30-minute meetings utilising our desktop or mobile app. Registered attendees will receive an invitation to login to the app the week prior to the event.09.30 - 10.30
STATE OF PLAY IN IP: WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON FOR EUROPE
- Europe’s biggest deals, awards and settlements
- What’s really happening at the EC
- Emerging opportunities in IP monetisation
- Predictions for 2024 and beyond
Speakers:
Matteo Sabattini, President & Chief Licensing Officer, Convida (moderator)
Mathen Ganesan, Executive Vice President, Invention Investment Fund, Intellectual Ventures
Daniel Northway, Head of IP, Ceres Power
Lucy Wojcik, Chief IP Counsel, Ocado
Koenraad Wuyts, Chief IP Officer, KPN
10.30 - 11.00
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
THE IMPORTANCE OF IP TO THE SUCCESS OF DYSON
Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Needham11.00 - 11.30
Networking Break
11.30 - 12.30
IP FINANCING IN EUROPE: OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH
- Examining funding models: pros and cons of various approaches
- Using patents and other IP assets as collateral
- Considering debt vs equity arrangements
- Knowing what to look for in a funding partner
Speakers:
Michelle Eber, Managing Director, West U Capital (moderator)
Shane O’Neill, Assistant General Counsel, Norsk Titanium
Pascal van Troost, Global IP Leader, Punch Powertrain
12.30 - 14.00
Networking Luncheon
14.00 - 15.00
CULTIVATING AN EFFECTIVE TRADE SECRET PROGRAM: ADDING VALUE AND SAFEGUARDING INNOVATION
- Building business value through trade secrets
- Defining the blueprint from protection to management to monetisation
- Considering a multinational approach uniting the German and US Trade Secret Acts
- Employee, joint venture, external relationships, and other key risk
Speakers:
Charles Clark, Founder, IP ARKITEK (moderator)
Coreena Brinck, Head of IP, IntuiCell
Mark Chadwick, Head of IP, Meatable
Abraham Mertens, Assistant General Counsel, Arista Networks
15.00 - 15.30
Networking Break
15.30 - 16.30
STRATEGIC PATENTING: ALIGNING IP WITH BUSINESS VALUE
- The where, what and how: should we all be adopting the Unitary Patent?
- Return on innovation: utilising IP to achieve wider business objectives
- Striving for quality over quantity
- Incorporating AI into decision making
Speakers:
Vincent Rubino, Founding Partner, Fabricant LLP (moderator)
Paul Ahern, Managing Director, Longitude Licensing
Noel Egnatios, CEO & Chief Legal Officer, DivX
Jordi Ilario, COO & VP, Licensing, Fractus
Maria Nichol, Chief Business Officer, Artax Biopharma
16.30 - 17.30
USING LITIGATION FINANCE AND INSURANCE TO MANAGE IP RISK
- The latest in insurance and funding in the EU
- Innovations and evolution: how the business models have evolved
- The big decision: funding and insurance vs funding or insurance
- Does the UPC present new risks and opportunities?
Speakers:
Emily O’Neill, General Counsel UK, Deminor (moderator)
Andrew Mutter, Executive Vice President, Contingent Risk, CAC Specialty
Jon Scahill, President & CEO, Quest Patent Research Corporation
Geoff White, General Counsel & Chief IP Counsel, SilcoTek
17.30 - 19.00
Networking Reception
DAY TWO: FRIDAY, 19 APRIL 2024
08.30 - 09.20
Registration & Breakfast
09.20 - 09.30
CHAIRPERSON’S WELCOME & RECAP
09.30 - 16.00
ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS
Participants have the option to schedule 30-minute meetings utilising our desktop or mobile app. Registered attendees will receive an invitation to login to the app the week prior to the event.09.30 - 10.00
FEATURED SESSION
WINNING WITH STORYTELLING
Fred Fabricant, Founding Partner, Fabricant LLP10.00 - 11.00
LEVERAGING THE UPC TO BUILD A GLOBAL LITIGATION STRATEGY
- The role of the UPC and its impact on global litigation strategies
- Forum shopping: choosing the UPC, the national courts or a combination of both
- Are we ready for the IP dawn raid in the EU?
- Getting results: tips and tricks from the vanguard
Speakers:
Tilman Müller, Partner, Bardehle (moderator)
Thomas Dreiser, Chief EU IP Litigation Counsel, Huawei
Anup Misra, Managing Director, IP, Curiam Capital
George Sevier, Head of IP Enforcement, Brands and Licensing, Dyson
Lucy Wojcik, Chief IP Counsel, Ocado
11.00 - 11.30
Networking Break
11.30 - 12.30
GETTING DEALS DONE OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM
- Fostering cooperation and mutual gains
- Overcoming common and complex deal-making hurdles
- How IP and licensing can be your most effective tools in forging partnerships
- Insights from success stories and failures in strategic deal-making across diverse sectors
Speakers:
Charles Eldering, CEO, CAsE Analysis (moderator)
Stavros Kyris, Chief Financial, Strategy and Operations Officer, Nokia
Sonja London, General Counsel, Licensing Executive & Secretary to the Board of Directors, TectoTek
Kevin Scott, Licensing Program Leader UMTS/LTE/Wireless Power, Philips
Miguel Soriano, Patent Licensing and Litigation Manager, JTI (Japan Tobacco International)
12.30 - 13.30
SEP POLICIES AND DECISIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD – AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR DEALMAKING
- Updates from the courts and the latest on rate setting
- The impact of the EC’s SEP proposal on dealmaking
- Examining recent decisions in China, India, Brazil and other rising jurisdictions
Speakers:
Sir Robin Jacob, Sir Hugh Laddie Chair of IP Law, UCL (moderator)
Thomas Mavrakakis, Director, Patents, North America, IBM
Patrick McCutcheon, Managing Director, IP Europe
Florian Mueller, President, Fray Media
13.30 - 14.30
NETWORKING LUNCHEON
14.30 - 16.00
ONE-TO-ONE MEETINGS CONTINUE
14.30 - 16.00
DEALMAKERS’ THINK AND DRINK
Participants can schedule one-to-one meetings or join us for networking and roundtable discussions accompanied by wine, soft drinks and nibbles. We’ll host a series of facilitated discussions for small groups of 8-10 people per roundtable with topics to be confirmed.
16.00
EVENT CONCLUDES
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2024 SPEAKERs
2024 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Needham
Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Needham
EARL OF KILMOREY
Sir Richard Needham has spent over 45 years in business and politics. He has unrivalled access at the highest levels into both public and private sectors in Asia, Europe and the US.
From 1985-1992 Richard Needham was the Minister responsible for redesigning and rebuilding Ireland’s shattered towns and cities. He is widely recognised throughout Northern Ireland as the man responsible for turning around and regenerating both the North’s infrastructure and economic base.
In 1992 Richard Needham was promoted to Minister of Trade and became Michael Heseltine’s Deputy. Over three years he overhauled and reinvigorated the whole of Britain’s export strategy. He is accepted in Whitehall as Britain’s most successful Minister of Trade since the War. In recognition of his work in Northern Ireland and at the DTI he was made a Privy Counsellor in 1994 and knighted in 1997.
Since leaving politics he has become involved in a number of businesses both large and small. He was international Director at GEC plc from 1995-97 Director of Meggitt Plc from 1997-2002, Chairman of the London Heart Hospital for five years and Biocompatibles Plc for six years together with a number of other public and private companies.
For 16 years, he was a Director of Dyson and acted as a Deputy Chairman for four years during this period. He was largely responsible for the development of the Company’s overseas sales operations in Europe, the US and the Far East, particularly Japan. He was also responsible for Dyson’s decision to move its manufacturing to Malaysia. He has close personal ties with many of ASEANS’s business and political leaders. Until 2012, he was the chairman of the Board of Avon Rubber Plc. For the last 23 years, he has been a director of the European operations of Japanese giant NEC Corporation.
For 20 years, he was the President of the British Exporters’ Association and an advisor to the President of Colombia on the peace process. Richard is the author of three books and is an Honourary Doctor of laws for the University of Ulster. He is a founder member of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group and was appointed Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star by the Emperor of Japan. In 2018 he was awarded the Order of San Carlos Grand Cross by the President of Colombia.
2024 FEATURED SPEAKERs
Paul Ahern
Managing Director
Longitude Licensing
Paul Ahern
MANAGING DIRECTOR, LONGITUDE LICENSING
Paul Ahern is managing director of Longitude Licensing, based in Dublin, Ireland and part of the IPValue Management Group. With a background in materials science and electronic engineering, Paul held roles in Intel and Nokia Bell Labs prior to beginning his IP licensing career in Intellectual Ventures Dublin office. Since Paul joined in 2019, Longitude has acquired rights to thousands of patents and has delivered significant returns to its enterprise partners. Longitude and its affiliate IPValue Management Inc. currently has a combined team of over 20 technical staff with many decades of industrial expense – which positions us to optimally leverage our “litigation-last” licensing approach and remain a sought-after partner for patent portfolio commercialization.
Coreena Brinck
Head of IP
IntuiCell
Coreena Brinck
HEAD OF IP, INTUICELL
Dr Coreena Brinck is a UK and European Patent Attorney. She has over 20 years of experience working in the profession, both in industry and in private practice. She held a number of senior IP roles in the communications sector at companies such as British Telecommunications and Nokia Technologies until 2017 when she returned to private practice. She recently returned part-time to industry and now works as Head of IP at IntuiCell, an artificial general intelligence start-up in Sweden which is working on human level AI through biological intelligence. When not immersed in new computational models of brain function she works as a patent attorney consultant at Two-IP where her practice focus is on computer-implemented technology in a variety of technical fields ranging such as communications, autonomous tech, user interface, conventional AI and quantum computing. She also has a non-exec IP role with EV charger manufacturer start-up Nodum Industries Ltd.
Mark Chadwick
Head of IP
Meatable
Mark Chadwick
HEAD OF IP, MEATABLE
Mark Chadwick is Head of Intellectual Property at Meatable. Mr Chadwick is a European Patent Attorney with more than 25 years’ experience advising on IP matters in the Life Sciences sector, working both in-house and in private practice. From 2018-2022, Mr Chadwick was Head of Intellectual Property at Biotalys in Belgium and prior to that worked in various senior IP roles at Merus, DSM and Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics. Mr Chadwick has considerable experience of patent matters relating to industrial biotechnology and the food industry and has a particular interest in IP issues relating to Access and Benefit Sharing.
Charles Clark
Founder
IP ARKITEK
Charles Clark
FOUNDER, IP ARKITEK
Charles founded IP-Arkitek in 2021 to provide a unique service for businesses interested in commercialising their intangible assets. Services include a virtual in-house IP team and intangible asset assessments for investors. Prior to that, he has 15 years’ leadership experience working for blue chip corporates and corporate venture funds delivering IP strategic advice to maximise value of intellectual property. Charles joined the IP profession in 1999 having spent 8 years as a research physicist working in the defence sector immediately after his graduation from London University.
Thomas Dreiser
Chief EU IP Litigation Counsel
Huawei
Thomas Dreiser
CHIEF EU IP LITIGATION COUNSEL, HUAWEI
Thomas Dreiser is a German qualified lawyer and working for Huawei in Munich. He is responsible for Huawei’s European patent licensing and patent litigation projects. He focuses on Standard Essential Patents in the telecommunications sector and all FRAND related issues. Prior to joining Huawei, Thomas worked as an external attorney specializing in patent litigation, IP and IT law, and he, inter alia, represented a company in one of the largest German SEP litigation campaigns in the telecommunications sector in recent years. He holds law degrees from the Universities of Munich, Duesseldorf and Jena, and he has more than 10 years of experience in the field of IP and patent law. Thomas also teaches IP law at the University of Weimar.
Michelle Eber
Managing Director
West U Capital
Michelle Eber
MANAGING DIRECTOR, WEST U CAPITAL
Noel Egnatios
CEO & Chief Legal Officer
DivX
Noel Egnatios
CEO & CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER, DIVX
Noel Egnatios is the CEO and Chief Legal Officer at DivX, a leading video technology company based in San Diego, CA that has been innovating in the video codec and streaming space for over 20 years. Noel is a longtime DivX employee who shepherded the growth of the company’s IP portfolio and spearheaded pivotal corporate transactions and licensing deals. She now directs DivX’s IP protection and enforcement programs and manages DivX’s consumer and business licensing efforts. Before joining DivX, she advised companies on IP portfolio management, enforcement and licensing matters. She began her career in private practice at Cooley, where she oversaw the portfolios of major Silicon Valley technology companies and represented wireless technology firms in global patent litigation and arbitration.
Charles Eldering
CEO
CAsE Analysis
Charles Eldering
CEO, CASE ANALYSIS
Charles is an entrepreneur, inventor, and patent specialist with over 20 years of experience in the patent field and extensive experience in patent monetization, including having monetized four of his own portfolios in areas ranging from targeted advertising to bioinformatics.
At CAsE Analysis Charles helps patent holders by providing portfolio management and strategic patenting services as well as preparing portfolios for sale and enforcement. This includes reverse engineering of existing products, development of claim charts, development of targeted continuation applications, and packaging of assets for sale or litigation. He also serves as an expert witness and has participated in several jury trials.
Charles has a BS in physics from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS in solid state science from Syracuse University, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of California at Davis. He is a registered patent agent and previously served as an officer in the US Air Force.
Fred Fabricant
Founding Partner
Fabricant LLP
Fred Fabricant
FOUNDING PARTNER, FABRICANT LLP
Alfred R. Fabricant (Fred) is an experienced first chair trial lawyer who focuses his practice on patent, copyright, trademark and unfair competition matters.
Fred has litigated patent infringement cases in district courts throughout the United States for both patent owners and defendants including cases in the most active courts in Delaware, Texas, California, Illinois and Florida. His cases have involved a large variety of technologies including automotive, semiconductor, audio processing, LED lighting and displays, smartphone handsets, medical devices, electronic ratings systems, copy protection and anti-piracy technology, NFC and radio frequency identification systems, robotic systems, memory and storage devices, software, internet-related method and system patents, universal remote control devices, and optical systems and methods. According to “The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners” published by the IAM1000: “clients say they cannot imagine working with anyone better, hailing (Fabricant’s) outstanding skills of presentation and persuasion in the courtroom.”
Fred has represented clients in patent matters before the International Trade Commission. He has also appeared in more than 100 inter partes review proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board. Fred has argued numerous appeals before the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Federal, Second and Fourth Circuits where he has represented both appellants and appellees in a variety of matters.
Since 2008. Fred has handled a large number of cases that have been financed, in whole or in part, by litigation funders. He has also represented litigation funds as outside diligence counsel and is frequently recommended by litigation funders to claimants for both lead counsel representation in litigation as well as for IPR work before the PTAB.
In addition to his litigation experience, Fred routinely acts as a legal counselor and advisor in the negotiation and drafting of patent, trademark and copyright license agreements, joint venture and funding agreements, and other business contracts. Fred also specializes in IP due diligence, freedom to operate analyses and strategies for the management and monetization of IP portfolios, a topic on which he has lectured extensively over the past decade. He advises clients on portfolio acquisitions and development, licensing and enforcement strategies, and litigation financing options.
Mathen Ganesan
Executive Vice President, Invention Investment Fund
Intellectual Ventures
Mathen Ganesan
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, INVENTION INVESTMENT FUND, INTELLECTUAL VENTURES
Mathen Ganesan is executive vice president of Intellectual Ventures’ (IV) Invention Investment Fund. He is directly responsible for licensing, monetization strategy, portfolio management, and fund operations. Previously, he served as managing director of Invention Investment Ireland, IV’s third Invention Investment Fund based in Dublin, Ireland.
Prior to joining IV, Mathen served as director of sales for TechInsights, providing IP value extraction services to blue chip companies. He was previously co-founder and vice president of business development and sales at Storage Genetics Inc., a fabless semiconductor startup where he led go-to-market planning, strategic partnerships, business development, sales strategy, and execution. Prior to this role, he ran international sales at Cornice Inc.
Over the last 20+ years, Mathen has served as an advisor, investor, and board member to companies in the semiconductor, mobile advertising, digital music, and new media markets. Mathen currently serves on the board of the International Centre for Life in Newcastle, England, and is an ardent supporter of kids’ educational initiatives, culture, and the arts.
Mathen received a bachelor’s degree in microelectronics and software engineering from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He received a master of science degree in telecommunications from University College London.
Jordi Ilario
COO & VP, Licensing
Fractus
Jordi Ilario
COO & VP, LICENSING, FRACTUS
Jordi Ilario is the Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Licensing at Fractus, a deep tech company specialized in antenna technology for the global wireless and telecommunications device industry, founded in Barcelona in 1999 as a spin-off of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Fractus is one of the most successful Spanish startups that has developed all the necessary ingredients to successfully commercialize deep tech technology. Among the numerous awards that the company has received, stands out the naming of Fractus as a Technology Pioneer Company at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2005 and the recognition of the European Patent Office (EPO) in the European Inventor Award 2014 for its award-winning technology in the field of antennas based on fractal geometry.
Since 2011, Ilario has been in charge of directing the operations of the company’s licensing programs, identifying new business opportunities, leading the negotiation and signing of global licensing agreements with important companies in the technology sector, supporting the company’s strategy and objectives.
Jordi Ilario has more than 20 years of international experience in Intellectual Property.
He began his career at Fractus in 2005 as part of the Intellectual Property team, coinciding with the launch of the company’s licensing program that has generated more than 100 million dollars. Previously, he was an intellectual property specialist at Nokia Research Center in Finland and head of the Patent Department at Oficina Ponti, a position he held until 2005 prior to joining the Fractus team.
Graduated in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Jordi completed his training in European patent law at the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) and industrial management at the Tampere University of Technology. Ilario has a PDG from IESE and is a member of the board of directors of LES Licensing Executives Society Spain-Portugal.
Sir Robin Jacob
Sir Hugh Laddie Chair of IP Law
UCL
Sir Robin Jacob
SIR HUGH LADDIE CHAIR OF IP LAW, UCL
Having read Natural Sciences at Trinity College Cambridge, He then simultaneously read for the Bar (called by Grays Inn 1965) and took an LLB from the LSE. He is an Arbitrator, Mediator, Expert Witness and Expert Determiner at 8 New Square, Lincoln’s Inn.
He practiced at the IP Bar from 1967. Successively he was IP Junior Counsel for the Patent Office the Government, QC, High Court and Court of Appeal Judge, He is currently a Professor at University College London.
He is Hon. Fellow of the LSE, and St Peter’s College, Oxford. He was Treasurer of Grays Inn in 2007 and a Governor of the LSE from 1988 to 2017. He received MIP’s Outstanding Achievement award in 2012. Although no longer a judge. he continues to be President of the Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (the association of European patent, judges).
Stavros Kyris
Chief Financial, Strategy and Operations Officer
Nokia
Stavros Kyris
CHIEF FINANCIAL, STRATEGY AND OPERATIONS OFFICER, NOKIA
Sonja London
General Counsel
TactoTek
Sonja London
GENERAL COUNSEL, LICENSING EXECUTIVE & SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, TACTOTEK
Sonja London is General Counsel and Licensing Executive in TactoTek, world-leading innovator in the field of smart surfaces. Sonja has global responsibility of TactoTek’s IP, licensing and standardization strategies as well as legal matters. Before TactoTek, she worked with Nokia Patent Business, in her latest position leading Nokia’s Consumer Electronics licensing globally. Sonja has been deeply involved in licensing for automotive, consumer electronics and mobile devices. Her experience covers also patent pools, joint licensing, patent transactions and managing licensing business.
Sonja serves several companies as board member, investor and advisor on IP. She serves in the board of Kesla Oyj (forestry technology), Berggren Oy (IP powerhouse) and SolidComp Oy (industrial digital twins).
Sonja serves as President Elect of Licensing Executives Society International (LESI). She holds a Master of Laws from University of Helsinki and Executive MBA from Aalto University. She is ranked in IAM Strategy 300 as one of the world top IP Strategists.
Tom Mavrakakis
Director, Patents, NA
IBM
Thomas Mavrakakis
DIRECTOR, PATENTS, NORTH AMERICA, IBM
Tom Mavrakakis has 30 years’ experience in combining legal analysis, negotiation acumen with an understanding of business dynamics to create favourable outcomes in all legal matters. He’s currently IBM’s director of patents and focused on monetising IBM’s significant patent portfolio in North America. Prior to his current position, he has lead IP Departments at companies like ServiceNow as well as being the director of patent strategy at Apple for the release of the first iPhone. At the beginning of his legal career, Tom was a patent litigator at big law firms for more than a decade and before that was a semiconductor chip designer prior to attending law school in the evening.
Patrick McCutcheon
Managing Director
IP Europe
Patrick McCutcheon
MANAGING DIRECTOR, IP EUROPE
Patrick McCutcheon was appointed as Managing Director of IP Europe in July 2022. He had previously worked as a policy advisor, later senior expert, in the European Commission’s Research and Innovation department since 2005. In these positions, he worked on review of policies impacting incentives to invest R&D and engage in open innovation including participation in standards and licencing of technology. He managed together with the Commission’s JRC a project monitoring and analysing industrial R&D investments which included the annual EU industrial R&D scoreboard. He was part of an intra-departmental team developing a policy framework on the licencing of SEPs and antitrust rules for technology transfer. His background is in business administration, he holds an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, and law he holds an LLB and LLM from the University of London with specialisation in IP and competition law. He initially trained as a chemist, with an MSc from the National University of Ireland and previously worked on implementation of legislation on chemicals following a career as forensic scientist and in the Pharma industry.
Abraham Mertens
Assistant General Counsel
Arista Networks
Abraham Mertens
ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL, ARISTA NETWORKS
Anup Misra
Managing Director, IP
Curiam Capital
Anup Misra
MANAGING DIRECTOR, IP, CURIAM CAPITAL
Anup Misra serves as a Director at Curiam Capital and is responsible for the underwriting of financing opportunities related to intellectual property litigation. He also works on business development and the monitoring of ongoing litigation for Curiam’s investments. This year he was individually ranked by Chambers and Partners in their Intellectual Property, Litigation Funding department.
Anup has over a decade of experience representing clients in complex intellectual property and general commercial litigation. Prior to joining Curiam, Anup was a senior associate at Winston & Strawn LLP, where he defended large technology companies in high-stakes patent litigation and provided guidance and counseling related to the management and acquisition of patent portfolios. He was also previously an associate in the intellectual property and litigation groups at Mayer Brown LLP and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP.
Anup graduated from Pennsylvania State University with degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics and cum laude from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he was an editor on the Law Review.
Florian Mueller
President
Fray Media
Florian Mueller
PRESIDENT, FRAY MEDIA
Tilman Müller
Partner
Bardehle
Tilman Müller
PARTNER, BARDEHLE
Dr. Tilman Müller specializes in patent infringement proceedings and parallel invalidity proceedings not only in national courts but also in front of the Unified Patent Court since day one.
His work focusses on the representation of patent pools, the enforcement of standard-essential patents, and all related antitrust issues. Tilman is not only familiar with different standardized technologies, including video and audio coding, telecommunications, wireless charging, and lighting, but also has profound knowledge of the economic and legal framework for patent pools and licensing.
Tilman Müller became particularly known by representing Access Advance and Via Licensing as well as the patent owners of these two pools in comprehensive infringement and validity proceedings. For many years, he has also been acting for Philips in various technological areas, particularly in complex cross-border and SEP-related disputes. He also represents clients in national and international IP-related arbitration proceedings.
Additionally, Tilman Müller has vast experience in drawing up licensing programs and relevant agreements as well as enforcing them, including in arbitration. In this context, he also accompanied and shaped the creation of several international standardization organizations in the lighting industry.
Tilman Müller is familiar with various technologies and advises clients from many industry sectors. For example, he advises clients in the areas of electrical engineering, consumer electronics, medical devices, and communications technology, mechanical engineering, lighting, and chemistry.
Andrew Mutter
Executive Vice President, Contingent Risk
CAC Specialty
Andrew Mutter
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, CONTINGENT RISK, CAC SPECIALTY
Andrew is an Executive Vice President at CAC Specialty and Leader of its Contingent Risk Insurance Practice, which has placed more than $4.5 billion in insurance coverage in the contingent risk markets. Andrew has received various accolades, including most recently the Business Insurance Innovation award for his work with the team developing new products to insure the core value of IP assets to reduce innovative companies’ cost of capital.
Andrew’s practice focuses on crafting bespoke solutions for Contingent Risk Insurance, providing strategic certainty around both contingent legal assets and contingent legal liabilities. On the basis of these policies, the Contingent Risk team has worked closely with CAC’s financing arm, Dorset Peak, to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in liquidity, release hundreds of millions of dollars from escrow, and facilitate hundreds of millions of dollars of debt restructuring and refinancing.
Maria Nichol
Chief Business Officer
Artax Biopharma
Maria Nichol
CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER, ARTAX BIOPHARMA
Dr Maria Nichol is Chief Business Officer at Artax Biopharma, a Boston-based biotechnology company which is advancing a novel class of molecules for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. Dr Nichol also works for additional small biotechnology companies via her consultancy business where she provides strategic advice, in particular in relation to IP and corporate development. Prior to this, Dr Nichol spent 17 years at Galapagos, where she built the IP team and was key in ensuring the strategic direction of the portfolio supported the commercial goals of the company. Dr Nichol is a UK and European patent attorney, she graduated from Cambridge University in 1997 and holds a D.Phil from the University of Oxford.
Daniel Northway
Head of IP
Ceres Power
Daniel Northway
HEAD OF IP, CERES POWER
Emily O’Neill
General Counsel UK
Deminor
Emily O'Neill
GENERAL COUNSEL UK, DEMINOR
Dr O’Neill is the General Counsel UK and a Director of Deminor UK, a leading European headquartered litigation fund. Dr O’Neill is also Head of Practice for Deminor’s intellectual property investments. Deminor has 25 years experience in supporting commercial litigation and funds from its balance sheet.
Dr O’Neill is an experienced and strategic litigator having held positions managing global disputes both leading an in-house team at Spectris plc and in private practice at Bird & Bird, London. Dr O’Neill’s IP litigation experience spans jurisdictions including the United Kingdom, the United States, China, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Dr O’Neill has been named as one of the world’s leading IP strategists in the IAM Strategy 300, as a Corporate IP Star by MIP, in the LawDragon 100 Global Leaders and in Who’s Who Legal for Litigation Finance.
Shane O’Neill
Assistant GC
Norsk Titanium
Shane O'Neill
ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL, NORSK TITANIUM
Shane O’Neill trained and qualified as a competition lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer where he advised clients in the aerospace and aviation sectors on merger control and antitrust regulatory matters. Since moving in-house he has advised on a broad range of matters including IT outsourcing, IP licensing, data protection, IPO, cybersecurity, commercial negotiations with aerospace OEMS, corporate transactions, and IP strategy.
Currently, he is Assistant General Counsel at Norsk Titanium, a global leader in metal 3D printing which supplies components to the aerospace, defence, and industrial sectors. He is responsible for a number of corporate areas including driving the company’s IP strategy, creation of IP awareness, trade secret protection, IP portfolio management, IP risk reduction, IP collaboration and cybersecurity.
Shane obtained a degree in Chemistry from University College, London. He then qualified as a solicitor. He also holds a postgraduate competition law diploma from Kings College, London.
Vincent Rubino
Partner
Fabricant LLP
Vincent Rubino
PARTNER, FABRICANT LLP
Prior to joining Fabricant LLP, Mr. Rubino was an Equity partner at Brown Rudnick, where he focused primarily on patent litigation. He has represented a wide range of clients in the smartphone, wireless, semiconductor, and biotechnology industries with respect to all aspects of patent litigation. Mr. Rubino has litigated cases throughout the United States in all popular patent venues including E.D. Texas, California, Florida, Delaware, and New Jersey as well as the International Trade Commission (ITC) the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). With a B.S and an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, Mr. Rubino brings extensive technical experience to every matter. He utilizes his technical experience to convey complicated technical matters in case-critical briefs and motions including several Markman hearings and pretrial conferences that resulted in favorable case resolution. Additionally, he has assisted at numerous bench and jury trials and has worked closely with experts regarding issues of patent validity, infringement, and damages.
Vincent has also represented a vast array of clients before the PTAB in more than 50 inter partes review (“IPR”) and covered business method (“CBM”) proceedings.
Matteo Sabattini
President & Chief Licensing Officer
Convida
Matteo Sabattini
PRESIDENT & CHIEF LICENSING OFFICER, CONVIDA
Dr. Matteo Sabattini currently serves as President and Chief Licensing Officer of Convida, a pioneer in research and innovation for IoT and cloud services. Formed in 2012 as a joint venture between Sony Corporation of America and InterDigital, Convida’s patented technology helps lay the groundwork for a future where everything, in every home, business and industry, is connected. Dr. Sabattini in the past held positions at Ericsson, the Sisvel Group, InterDigital and other leading organizations in the IP industry. He also held several teaching and research positions in wireless and mobile communications at UCSD and at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).
Dr. Sabattini is a though leader in the IP space. He has years of expertise in technology licensing and IP strategy, and his background blends business, policy and technical skills. He has published extensively and regularly speaks at industry events on IP matters. He holds an MBA from the George Washington University (GWU), a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and a Laurea Magistrale also in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna.
Dr. Sabattini is a member of the board of the Licensing Executive Society International (LESI). He also currently serves as the senior vice president for standards and is part of the management council of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) USA and Canada. He is an IEEE senior member, a Beta Gamma Sigma lifetime member, as well as a member of the MIT Enterprise Forum. He is active in the community and has served on several boards of non-profit organizations. He is an avid skier and a mediocre surfer.
Jon Scahill
President & CEO
Quest Patent Research Corporation
Matteo Sabattini
PRESIDENT & CEO, QUEST PATENT RESEARCH CORPORATION
Leading Quest since 2007, Jon Scahill has over 15 years’ experience identifying, vetting, negotiating for and monetizing intellectual property. He has engaged assets as an owner, purchaser, licensee, licensor, plaintiff and defendant. He has advised and negotiated transactions on behalf of and opposite major corporations, individual owners, investors, hedge funds and litigation counsel.
During his tenure, Mr. Scahill has grown Quest’s portfolio from a single patent asset to over 250 patents under management across 18 portfolios. Quest manages a financing facility of over $50 million-dollars dedicated to additional portfolio acquisitions and monetization efforts.
Mr. Scahill holds a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester, an MBA in finance, strategy and operations from Rochester’s Simon Graduate School of Business and a JD from Pace Law School. Mr. Scahill is admitted to practice in New York, Florida and the District of Columbia and he is a registered patent attorney admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Quest offers a suite of value-added services to owners, IP attorneys, small businesses and corporations to drive revenue from innovative, distressed, dormant or under-managed IP assets. The company trades on the OTCQB Venture Market under the ticker QPRC. Quest affords investors an opportunity to participate across a broad portfolio of dynamic assets in the burgeoning intellectual property space.
Kevin Scott
Licensing Program Leader UMTS/LTE/Wireless Power
Philips
Kevin Scott
LICENSING PROGRAM LEADER UMTS/LTE/WIRELESS POWER, PHILIPS
Dr Kevin Scott works for Philips Intellectual Property & Standards, where he leads a global team of licensing professionals in licensing Philips patents to third parties in technical areas including telecommunications (UMTS/LTE/5G) and television. Dr Scott has over 20 years’ experience in licensing Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) to companies large and small, and has extensive experience in multinational litigation of SEPs.
Before joining the IP profession in 1997, Dr Scott worked at Philips Research Laboratories in the creation of computer simulation programs.
Dr Scott’s technical background is in electrical engineering (with a PhD from University College London) and physics (with a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University). He is a UK Chartered Patent Attorney and a European Patent Attorney, a Council member of the UK’s IP Federation, and is included as a top practitioner in IAM’s Strategy 300, 2023.
George Sevier
Head of IP Enforcement, Brands and Licensing
Dyson
George Sevier
HEAD OF IP ENFORCEMENT, BRANDS AND LICENSING, DYSON
George Sevier leads Dyson’s global IP Enforcement, Brands & Licensing Team, with responsibility for IP disputes globally, including patent and design litigation, brand protection and anti-counterfeiting, as well as the Dyson brand portfolio and IP licensing. He co-leads Dyson’s Centre of Excellence for Product Litigation. Prior to joining Dyson in 2018, George was a Director at Gowling WLG, and assisted in co-ordinating the enforcement of Dyson’s bladeless fan and hairdryer IP in more than 40 countries across the globe.
Miguel Soriano
Patent Licensing and Litigation Manager
JTI
Miguel Soriano
PATENT LICENSING AND LITIGATION MANAGER, JTI (JAPAN TOBACCO INTERNATIONAL)
Miguel Soriano is Patent Licensing and Litigation Manager at Japan Tobacco International (JTI) based in Geneva, Switzerland. JTI is one of the largest international tobacco and vaping product manufacturers, with market presence in 130 countries with some of the world’s best-known brands. JTI is also an EPO top-50 applicant since 2021. Miguel is a European patent attorney and UPC representative with an industrial engineering degree in mechanics. In the IP profession since 2011, he has gained since working experiences in private practice, and in in-house roles in the automotive and FMCG sectors. In his current role, he contributes to developing international patent strategies, with a keen an eye on the UPC, and is particularly active around US patent litigation, where he recently settled very favourably a claim.
Pascal van Troost
Global IP Leader
Punch Powertrain
Pascal van Troost
Global IP Leader, Punch Powertrain
Pascal van Troost has more than 15 years of experience the IP domain, in private practice and in various companies in the Industry. He is a qualified BE,NL and EU patent attorney and holds a master degree in Engineering and a master degree in IP Law & Management.
Geoff White
General Counsel & Chief IP Counsel
SilcoTek
Geoff White
GENERAL COUNSEL & CHIEF IP COUNSEL, SILCOTEK
Geoffrey White is General Counsel, Chief IP Counsel, and on the Board of Directors at SilcoTek, a high-tech materials science manufacturing company in the United States solving challenges for some of the largest global organizations in the world, especially in semiconductor, analytical instrumentation, life science, and energy industries. Properties include inertness, corrosion resistance, metal-ion containment, and more (see www.SilcoTek.com).
At SilcoTek, Geoffrey balances his role as an attorney, an IP strategist, and a manufacturing executive. Geoffrey has a true passion for value-enhancement, applying his experience and education, including a Cambridge MBA, a George Washington IP-LLM, a Widener JD, and a Chemistry BS from the University of Pittsburgh.
He is intimately involved in enabling external organizations to have access to SilcoTek’s proprietary coatings through SilcoTek’s patent filing strategy, which fosters open discussion consistent with SilcoTek’s core values. This openness drove SilcoTek to publicly disclose current patent litigation funding from Omni Bridgeway.
Lucy Wojcik
Chief IP Counsel
Ocado
Lucy Wojcik
CHIEF IP COUNSEL, OCADO
Lucy Wojcik graduated in materials engineering from Imperial College London. She trained as a patent attorney in two private practice firms before qualifying as a European patent attorney and chartered patent attorney in 1999 and moving to an in-house role for BAE Systems plc. Having gained significant commercial IP experience, Ms Wojcik became a freelance IP consultant and patent attorney for Leonardo MW (a subsidiary of Finmeccanica SpA) and, more recently, for Ocado Innovation Ltd. She was appointed head of intellectual property for Ocado Group plc in 2016. She is also a visiting lecturer on the IP practice and management course at Brunel University.
Koenraad Wuyts
Chief IP Officer
KPN
Koenraad Wuyts
CHIEF IP OFFICER, KPN
Koenraad Wuyts (60) graduated in Physics in 1992 and became Bachelor in Philosophy in the same year, both at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He entered the intellectual property arena in 1994 and qualified as European Patent Attorney in 1999.
Nowadays Koenraad Wuyts is Chief Intellectual Property Officer of the KPN Group companies. The group develops ICT operations mainly in the Netherlands. Before working with KPN, Koenraad Wuyts was the head of Patents and Licensing at the Research Center IMEC (Belgium). Over the last twenty five years of his career Koenraad Wuyts developed extensive experience in patent portfolio management and the broad range of IPR law, currently lecturing frequently at international conferences.
He still lives in Belgium and is the proud father of three young professionals, neither of them active in the IPR world.
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The 2nd Annual IP Dealmakers Europe will be held at one of London’s finest venues, Royal Lancaster London, located at Lancaster Terrace, London W2 2TY.
Royal Lancaster London is Hyde Park’s commanding mid-century architectural icon with unparalleled views of the iconic London skyline.
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The 2nd Annual IP Dealmakers Europe will be held on June 23-25, 2025 at The Royal Lancaster London. It will be co-located with the 2nd Annual LF Dealmakers Europe. You may find additional information regarding the venue and accomodations on our Venue page.
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The IP Dealmakers Forum brings together a select group of leaders in the business community to address critical issues impacting the IP industry and broader innovation landscape. In order to ensure the event has balanced representation from market leaders and to maintain an optimal networking dynamic, we have instituted an approval process for all registrations.
We actively seek thought leaders and senior executives with experience and decision-making power within their respective organizations. We review individual registrations based on organizational profile, level of seniority as represented by job title, biographical information, and referral source.
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