PENNY GILBERT: Good morning or good afternoon, depending on your time zone, and
welcome to the first session of today's patent law track. We've got quite a broad topic for …

BRIAN CORDERY: Good morning, good afternoon or good evening to everyone. My name
is Brian Cordery. I'm a partner at Bristows in London. It's my pleasure to be moderating this …

ANDREW BOWLER: Perfect. Hi. Hello, everyone. Hi. Sorry about that. Welcome to the
session on patent potpourri. I'm Andy Bowler, I'm a partner at Bristows in London. I've got the …

MARTIN J. ADELMAN: This session is US Patent Development. Really, if we look at it, it's
been 10 years since the America Invents Act was signed into law by President Obama. You …

SIMON HOLZER: In the next few minutes, I would like to express my views on some recent
developments in Swiss patent law, in particular the importance of some procedural …

KLAUS GRABINSKI: It's a pleasure again being here with Fordham, and the topic of today is
The UPC is Coming, but what the heck is the UPC? Well, the UPC is a court common to the …

Last year we had a similar panel. I interspersed it more with foreign judges and practitioners
to get the comparative view. I remember some of the comments that were made last year on …

PENNY GILBERT: This is perhaps one of the most topical and relevant discussions we're
going to have today bearing in mind where we are at the moment, and the one place that …

ROBIN JACOB: The speakers are going to be in the order of the program, starting with Peter.
His subject is going to be SPCs, probably really important for the pharma industry. Sadly, the …

MR. BUNT: I thought we would start by generally outlining where the district is and the
number of cases being filed currently. Last year, the Eastern District at the end of the year …