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Biographies |
Utsab Banerjee
Utsab Banerjee joined TCS in 2010 and
was one of the founding members of the
corporate IPR cell in the company. A
bachelor of Technology in Electronics
and Communication engineering (2006) and
a LL.B. in Intellectual Property Laws
from Indian Institute of technology
Kharagpur (2010), Utsab has prior
working experience in Companies like
Cognizant Technology Solutions and
Samsung. Utsab is also a qualified
Indian Patent Agent and is a registered
member of West Bengal Bar Council.
Currently he is into the IPR
negotiations and policy framing for TCS.
He is also working ardently for IPR
awareness in and outside the
organization. |
Brad Biddle
Brad Biddle is an Adjunct Professor at
Arizona State University’s Sandra Day
O’Connor College of Law, where he
teaches a course on technology
standards, and serves as a Research
Fellow at ASU’s Center for Law, Science
and Innovation. He is also Standards
Counsel for Intel Corporation, where he
coordinates the worldwide legal team
focused on technology standards
development efforts and other related
industry collaborations; previously he
led Intel’s engagement with the World
Intellectual Property Organization and
the Internet Governance Forum. Brad was
a non-residential Fellow at Stanford Law
School's Center for Internet and Society
from 2007-2010. |
 Asok Chatterjee
Asok Chatterjee received his Master’s
degree in Radio Physics and Electronics
from University of Calcutta, India, and
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the
University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr.
Chatterjee has nearly 30 years of
experience in various branches of the
telecommunications industry. Dr.
Chatterjee is currently the Vice
President of Industry Relations with
Ericsson and serves as Co-Chairman of
WP1, SG13, ITU-T for the 2009-2012 Study
Period and is a member of US Delegation
to ITU-R SG5 WP5D [working on IMT-Adv
standardization]. Dr. Chatterjee is one
of the founders of 3GPP, currently
serving as the Chairman of 3GPP Project
Coordination Group and is a member of
the ATIS Delegation to Global Standards
Collaboration meetings and was a member
of the US Delegations to WTSA 2008 in
Johannesburg and WTDC 2010 in Hyderabad. |
Antoine Dore
Antoine Dore is a Canadian lawyer who
joined ITU over ten years ago; he is a
Senior Legal Officer of the Legal
Affairs Unit of the ITU. Frequently
called on to provide legal advice on
policy questions involving IPR issues,
notably in the context of ITU's
standardization activities, his advice
is also regularly sought on issues
related to the licensing activities of
the ITU. Mr. Dore is a member of the WSC
Task Force responsible for the
elaboration of the common patent policy
for ITU/ISO/IEC and its related
guidelines. He also acts as secretary to
ITU's Ad Hoc Group on Intellectual
Property Rights which is a forum for the
exchange of views between IP experts.
Mr. Dore is a frequent speaker on IPR
and standardization issues. Prior to
working as in-house counsel for ITU, Mr.
Dore worked in a large Canadian law firm
specializing in commercial and corporate
law and litigation. |
Stephan Gauch
Stephan Gauch studied social science
with a focus on empirical social
research and statistics at the
University of Mannheim. Between 2004 and
2008 Stephan Gauch was a researcher in
the department of Innovation Systems and
Policy at Fraunhofer ISI. Since 2009 he
has been working at Technische
Universität Berlin at the chair of
Innovation Economics under the guidance
of Prof. Dr. Knut Blind.
He is active in standardization research
and innovation indicator analysis
focusing on topics relating to
standardization and innovation such as
technology convergence in
standardization and the use of standards
as indicators for diffusion and
coordination of innovation activities.
Stephan Gauch holds a PhD in economics.
His thesis addresses the interaction of
research and standardisation and the
division of labor in ICT
standardization. |
Michel Goudelis
Michel Goudelis was born in Athens in
1954.
After an Electrical Engineering degree
from the National Technical University
in Athens, Greece in 1977, followed by a
Telecommunications Engineer degree and a
PhD from the ENST in Paris, France in
1981, he worked both in the
Telecommunications industry and
Telecommunications operators.
He joined the European Patent Office
(EPO) in 1989 as an examiner in
Telecommunications. Since 2003 he is a
Director in Telecommunications, his
Directorate being entrusted with patent
examination primarily in the field of
Wireless Networks.
His further responsibilities in the EPO
Joint Cluster Telecommunications include
Documentation, Search and Examination
Tools, as well as Trend Watching and
External Relations.
He is the coordinator of the EPO ICT
Standards group and designated EPO
coordinator and contact person in the
Cooperation Agreements with
Standardisation Organisations, ETSI, ITU
and IEEE-SA. |
Monica Goyal
Monica Goyal is a Toronto-based lawyer
and a softwarenology entrepreneur who
founded My Legal Briefcase, an online
legal service firm focused on small
claims court cases. After graduating
from her undergraduate degree from the
University of Waterloo, where she was a
Dean's List Scholar, Monica attended
Stanford University, where she earned
her Master’s degree in Electrical
Engineering. Monica also holds a law
degree from the University of Toronto.
Monica has extensive industry experience
as an electrical engineer. She was
employed in the United States and Canada
in research and development with several
major telecommunications and
semiconductor companies. After the
completion of her law degree, she worked
with a top Canadian IP firm.
Monica's volunteer work with
organizations such as Griffin Centre,
Adventure Place, Downtown Legal
Services, and Pro Bono Law Canada has
given her insight into the accessibility
and affordability of legal needs for the
marginalized. She developed My Legal
Briefcase to empower individuals going
to court. |
 Yukio Hiramatsu
Yukio Hiramatsu is Professor, Graduate
School of Intellectual Property, Osaka
Institute of Technology (OIT). He is
currently engaged in research and
education on relationship between
standards and IPR. Before joining the
OIT in April, 2005, he had been with NTT
Laboratories for 27 years, being
responsible for R&D and standardization
regarding packet communications in
public networks. From 1985 to 2008, he
had been an active participant in ITU-T,
and served as Chairman of Study Group 11
(Signalling requirements and protocols)
for the period of 2001 to 2008. He is
currently serving as Chairman of the IPR
Committee meeting of TTC, Japan.
He was born in Tokyo in 1953 and
received his B. E. and M. E. degrees
from Yokohama National University in
1976 and 1978, respectively. He is a
member of the IEEE, the Institute of
Electronics, Information and
Communication Engineers of Japan,
Information Processing Society of Japan,
and Intellectual Property Association of
Japan. In 2009 the ITU Association of
Japan awarded him for his contribution
to the ITU. |
Anne Lehouck
Anne Lehouck is the Policy Coordinator
for ICT Standardization for the European
Commission—Directorate General
Enterprise. During the first part of her
career, Ms. Lehouck was active as a
technical officer who was responsible
for Electrotechnical standardization at
the Belgian Electrotechnical Committee.
Ms. Lehouck joined the European
Commission in 1986 and has been active
in the ICT standardization domain, first
as a technical officer in charge of
specific ICT standardization activities.
Presently, she is responsible for the
ICT standardisation policy in the
context of the overall European
Commission (EU) standardization policy.
She started the ICT standardisation
policy review in 2006 , chaired the ICT
standardisation policy steering
committee since its creation and
prepared the new regulatory proposals
covering the ICT domain as presented in
the standardisation legal review.
Ms. Lehouck is a graduate from the
Politechnical School at the University
of Brussels. |
 Hung Ling
Hung Ling is currently with the
Corporate Standards group in
Alcatel-Lucent. While he is based in the
USA, one of his responsibilities is to
manage IPR issues related to standards
globally. In this role, he provides
advice to product divisions and
represents Alcatel-Lucent in various
Standards and IPR policy committees. He
has participated in many discussions in
ITU, ETSI, ANSI, ATIS, TIA, IEEE, etc
and is also responsible for membership
in standards organizations globally.
Besides active committee participation,
he is the Rapporteur for the Marks
Guidelines issues in the ITU TSB
Director’s Ad Hoc Group on IPR and a
member of the IEEE Standards Association
Standards Board. Prior to joining the
Standards team, he led R&D groups in
Bell Laboratories in diverse technology
areas such as optical subsystems,
electronic assembly and advanced
manufacturing.
Hung has a Doctor of Science degree in
Material Science and a B.S. degree in
Physics, both from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in the USA. |
 Tomoko Miyamoto
Head
Patent Law Section
Patents and Innovation Division
World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO)
Tomoko Miyamoto is a Head of the Patent
Law Section, Patents and Innovation
Division, in the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO). Tomoko’s
current activities involve various
issues with respect to patent policy,
law and practices, including the
development of international patent
system and promotion of patent-related
treaties. She also belongs to a team of
Secretariat serving for the WIPO
Standing Committee on the Law of Patents
(SCP), within which issues relating to
patents and technical standards has been
discussed. Tomoko started her career as
a patent examiner at the Japan Patent
Office, and later worked in the
International Affairs Division. She has
a M. Eng in Electronics Engineering and
an LL.M on IP law and management.
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Serge Raes
Dr. Ir. Serge RAES was educated at the
State University of Liège, Montefiore
Institute, Belgium, where he obtained
his Electrical (Electronics) Engineering
degree in 1985 and a Ph. D. in the field
of high frequency microstrips in 1993.
From 1985 to 1997, he was Professor in
Radiocommunications within the Telecom
Department.
He joined Alcatel (now Alcatel-Lucent)
in 1991 where he worked on TETRA (TErrestrial
Trunked RAdio) and GSM: he holds 3
patents. Then, he became Standardization
Programme Manager (1997-2000) at the
HeadQuarter: during this period, he
launched the UMTS IPR Working Group,
UMTS Intellectual Property Association
and the 3G Patent Platform Partnership
(3G3P), now a Patent Pool for W-CDMA
essential patents under Sipro Lab
Telecom. From 2001 to 2003, he was
Licensing Business Development Manager.
He was seconded to ETSI in 1993-1994 as
a Project Team Expert then Leader on
TETRA, and in 2000-2001 to 3G3P as
Business Development Director.
In 2003, he joined France Telecom where
he is in charge of the co-ordination
between Intellectual Property and
Standardization, which includes the
approval of the IPR Policy of all
standards bodies where France Telecom is
a member and the patent essentiality
evaluations and declarations.
Since 2004, he has been serving as
Rapporteur on Patent issues to the ITU
Telecommunication Standardisation and to
the Radiocommunications Sectors. He
invested into the formation of the
Common IPR Policy for ITU, ISO and IEC,
and is involved in the on-going IPR
Policy discussions among many standards
bodies (e.g. ETSI, where he is
Vice-Chair of the IPR Committee). |
 Dinesh Chand Sharma
Dinesh Chand Sharma has been associated
with Telecom Industry since 1992 and
with Ericsson since 1997.
He is presently working in the capacity
of Director – Regulatory Affairs &
Industry Relations in Communication &
Business Development Group. Prior to
this, he has worked in Customer Unit -
Government Operators as “Head – Account
Management” , in Commercial Management,
Technical Solutions, 3G Programs in
India and After Sale Support capacities
within Ericsson Group. He also posses a
4 years international experience in
North American Market with T-Mobile
Account in the capacity of Service
Delivery Manager.
Dinesh began his career in Customer
support in year 1992 and has a
cumulative 18 years of experience in
Telecom Industry.
He has a Bachelors degree in Electronics
from Pune University in India, Diploma
with highest honour in Business
Management from Stratford Institute,
WDC, USA and SUN certification from USA. |
Stéphane Tronchon
Stéphane Tronchon is the Director of IPR
Policy at QUALCOMM Incorporated, an
internationally recognised leader in
developing and delivering innovative
digital wireless communications products
and services. QUALCOMM participates in
almost 100 standardization bodies
worldwide and licenses its
industry-leading wireless technology to
third parties all around the world to
design, manufacture and sell products to
help build the wireless ecosystem.
Mr. Tronchon current responsibilities
include management of standards
development strategic policy issues
including IPR international and regional
activities, and other regulatory
initiatives related to Qualcomm
standards activities.
Mr. Tronchon represents QUALCOMM and
addresses relevant IPR issues in
different venues throughout the world
including the IPR Working Groups of
ETSI, Digital Europe the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the
World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO).
Previously, as Legal Director in the
European Telecommunication Standards
Institute (ETSI), he was seen as being
instrumental in guiding ETSI members on
the management of their IPRs in a
standards making process and in
delivering advice on IPR matters to ETSI
General Assembly and Board. His
responsibilities included the drafting
and completion for the ETSI Guide on
IPRs which is modelled throughout the
ICT industry. |
 Phil Wadsworth
Mr. Wadsworth has been practicing in all
aspects of IP law since 1978. At the
beginning of his career, he was in
private practice for approximately 5
years. This included an assignment in
Tokyo, Japan where he worked closely
with Toshiba on procuring US patents for
their most important inventions. In
1983, he joined Motorola Corporation at
their Paging and Portable Products
facility in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida,
primarily focusing on patent
prosecution. In 1985, Mr. Wadsworth
joined IBM at their Boca Raton, Florida
PC Division where he worked on all of
the IP issues associated with bringing
the PS/2 to market. He worked at IBM for
fifteen years, taking on progressively
increasing responsibilities, and gaining
extensive experience in patent and
technology licensing, infringement and
invalidity analysis, patent prosecution,
patent litigation and managing large
patent departments, as well as all
aspects of trademark, copyright and
trade secret law. This culminated with
him reaching the executive level in
1995. Mr. Wadsworth joined Qualcomm in
1999, as Chief Patent Counsel and over
the course of his seven year stay in
that position grew the patent department
from thirty employees to well over a
hundred. He is presently concentrating
his efforts on global IP legislative
activities and leads a team of in-house
attorneys that focus on open source
software issues.
Mr. Wadsworth is co-chair of the IP
subcommittee of the US Semiconductor
Industry Association and a member of the
IP Task Force of the World Semiconductor
Council. He is also a member of the
California, New York and Florida bars,
the American Intellectual Property
Association and the Intellectual
Property Owners Association, including
the Asian Practice Committee.
Mr. Wadsworth has a B.S.E.E. from
Clarkson University, a Masters in Public
Administration from Pepperdine
University, and a J.D. from the
University of Miami School of Law. |
 Dirk Weiler
Dirk Weiler is Head of Standards
Management in Nokia Siemens Networks,
responsible for standardization policy,
membership portfolio, type approval and
various other topics.
He is Chairman of the ETSI General
Assembly and the ETSI IPR Special
Committee, Vice Chairman of the BITKOM
Working Group Standardization and member
of the European Commission’s ICT
Standardisation Policy Steering
Committee.
Until 2006 he has held various
management positions in the areas of
development, research, intellectual
property, standardization and marketing
in Siemens. Since 1988 he has been
working actively in standardization on
technical as well as board level in
ETSI, ITU, OMA and various other bodies.
He joined Siemens in 1985, starting in
the development of the Mobile
Communication System C450, after his
graduation in Physics from the
University of Cologne and the Institute
of Nuclear research in Jülich, Germany |
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