On 2 October 2014, the German-Japanese Lawyers Association, the German Patent and Trademark Office, and three other Japanese Organisations will host a free German-Japanese symposium on patent litigation in Munich. The symposium will be in English.
Speakers include:
Mr. Toshiaki Iimura, Presiding Judge, President of the Japanese IP High Court
Mr. Ryoichi Mimura, Former Judge of jap. IP High Court, Attorney at Law, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
Mr. Eiji Katayama, Attorney-at-Law, Abe, Ikubo & Katayama
Mr. Kenichi Nagasawa, Director, Corporate Intellectual Property and Legal Headquarters, Canon Inc.
Mr. Takeshi Ueno, Senior Counsel, IP Law, IBM Japan
Prof. Dr. Peter Meier-Beck, Presiding Judge, German Federal Court of Justice
Dr. Klaus Grabinski, Judge, German Federal Court of Justice
Dr. Thomas Kühnen, Presiding Judge, Higher Regional Court Düsseldorf
More information may be found here.