The intellectual property (IP) industry is tasked with supporting and protecting organizations that seek to push innovation and brand creation to the edge of possibility. However, the advancements in digital technologies and complex partnership networks are changing the face of, and challenging, the IP profession. Join us at Clarivate IP Forum 2023 to hear from our talented panel of IP professionals as they explore the biggest challenges they face within the patent and trademark landscape.

Opening Session: Navigating the IP ecosystem 
Today's intellectual property ecosystem is characterized by complex relationships among IP creators, internal legal teams, law firms, Patent and Trademark Offices and managed service providers. While digitalization remains high on the agenda, the success of the IP ecosystem also depends on a willingness to connect and collaborate and the strategic adoption of transformational technologies.

Hear from our keynote speaker, Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, as she explores key themes within the IP ecosystem.

Breakout 1: The role of patents in Open Innovation
Collaboration – co-innovation – is increasingly key to successful modern innovation. Working with external partners, organizations can provide access to important pools of knowledge and reduce the investment risk of their own research and development (R&D).

In today’s more complex and volatile competitive landscape, where the lines between industries and technologies continue to blur, the need for deeper, broader expertise and knowledge is clear. Yet, it comes with a tension – sharing knowledge while protecting intellectual assets.

Topics include:

• • What does modern R&D collaboration look like – especially considering growing value chains, ecosystems, technology interoperability?
• • Does IP protection help or hinder setting up successful partnerships?
• • What can we learn from sectors where collaborative innovation is more common?
• • What are the best approaches to sharing IP?

Session panelists:

• •Ed White, VP and Principal Analyst, Clarivate
• •Vasheharan Kanesarajah, Head of Strategy, IP Organization, Clarivate
• •Clint Mehall, Partner – Patent Attorney, Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

Breakout 2: Digital disruption in the trademark profession
With the expanding domain name system, social and e-commerce’s impact on brands and globalization, clearing a new trademark today requires more data and diligence than ever. Digital disruption is affecting the trademark professional’s everyday workflow. Yet, it also promises an answer to their biggest challenge: too much data.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning and predictive analytics are transforming workflows across industries, revolutionizing both the speed of content creation and the ability to process – and gain actionable intelligence from – vast amounts of data. How are these technologies impacting trademark practitioners and their stakeholders?

Topics include:

• • What impacts do new platforms, and their ability to reach critical mass of user adoption at unprecedented rates, have on trademark research and protection?
• • How will Web 3 technologies increase trademark complexity, including 3D and moving marks?
• • How is continued globalization increasing the need to consider homoglyph and homophone strings in trademark searches?
• • What technologies can practitioners leverage to work through the volume and manage the complexity of future trademarks?

Session panelists:   

• •Brian King, Head of IP Government and Industry Relations, Clarivate
• •Robert Reading Director, Corporate Strategy at Clarivate
• •Stacey Foltz Stark, Director Intellectual Property, WeWork
• •Francesca Witzburg, Founder & Managing Attorney of Francesca Witzburg, Esq.
• •Sandra Mau, VP TrademarkVision & IP Government Solutions, Clarivate