Toshiko Takenaka, Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Washington,Christoph Rademacher, Patent scholar, Waseda University,Jan Krauss, Partner, Boehmert & Boehmert,Jochen Pagenberg, Co-founder and Attorney-at-Law, Bardehle Pagenberg,Tilman Mueller-Stoy, Partner, Bardehle Pagenberg,Christof Karl, Partner, Bardehle Pagenberg Prof. Dr. Toshiko Takenaka is a leading patent comparative law scholar who has been teaching U.S. patent law since 1992 at the University of Washington School of Law, and is also the founder of the IP Law and Policy LL.M. Program. Prof.

Dr. Christoph Rademacher is a comparative law scholar at Waseda University, Tokyo. Dr. Jan Krauss is a patent attorney at Boehmert & Boehmert, as well as an affiliate instructor of law and guest lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law, and teaches IP on the Executive MBA in Life Sciences at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Germany. Michael C. Elmer is Senior Counsel at Finnegan. He leads a global patent enforcement project with partner IP law firms in Asia and Europe to develop statistical data to facilitate patent owners and defendants for selecting the best forum. Dr.

Jochen Pagenberg is co-founder and senior member of Bardehle Pagenberg, as well as an adviser to the German Federal Ministry of Justice. Dr. Tilman Mueller-Stoy is a Partner of Bardehle Pagenberg, Munich. He lectures on IP Law at Munich Technical University, and teaches patent law at the George Washington School of Law and the Dresden University of Technology.