Gilda González Carmona, Bachelor Degree on Law, graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Advance Degree on Private Law from the Graduate Center for Studies in Law.

Chair Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

She has worked professionally in public and private sector, being involved at the IP sphere in 2002, after litigating for the private sector.

Nowadays she is Deputy Director of Support Services of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI), where she mainly develops public policies at national and international level; likewise fosters the protection of intellectual property rights.

WORKING EXPERIENCE:
PUBLIC SECTOR
· Deputy Director of Support Services (IMPI)
· Divisional Director of Intellectual Property Enforcement (IMPI)
· Deputy Divisional Director of Unfair Competition Prevention (IMPI)
PRIVATE SECTOR
· GMAC RFC Operadora Auritec Mexico City. (2000 – 2002)
· UNIÓN DE CREDITO DE LA INDUSTRIA DE LA CONSTRUCCIÓN Y AVIOS (HOY: UNIÓN DE CREDITO DE SERVICIOS FINANCIEROS Y CORPORATIVOS) Mexico City. (1998 -1999)
· FEDERICO ANAYA & ASOCIADOS Despacho Jurídico Mexico City. (1997 – 1998)
· HUBER & ASOCIADOS, S.A. de C.V. Despacho Jurídico Mexico City. (1994 – 1997)
· BUFETTE JURIDICO RAFAEL CASTILLO RUIZ & ASOCIADOS, S.C. Despacho Jurídico Mexico City. (1991 - 1994)

COURSE AND SEMINAR PARTICIPATION:
· Copyright.
· Alternative Methods of Controversy Solution on Intellectual Property Matters
· Forgery of Marlboro Cigarettes. Phillip Morris Mexico.
· Decision making. UNAM and Ministry of Economy.
· Recent developments on Internet Law.
· Administrative Law. Federal Law of Administrative Procedures.
· International visitors program, offered by the Department of State. (USA).
· Patent Litigation Workshop, offered by the European Patent Office. (EPO)
· Copyrights and Related Rights (DL-201) (WIPO).
· Selected issues of Intellectual Property.
· Review and Analysis of the Federal Law, regarding the application of Administrative Procedures
· Enhancement of rules, regulations, services and procedures of High Citizen Impact; Publication; and Assessment on Citizen’s engagement letter.
· Successful completion of the USPTO Global Intellectual Property Academy Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Program USPTO Headquarters.
· Course on Pharmaceutical Patent.
· Regional Office Training.
· Participation in the Judges’ course, regarding International Treaties, such as: TRIPS and NAFTA.

CONFERENCES OFFERED:
· Infringement on Intellectual Property issues, at the Judicature Council.
· Infringement on Intellectual Property issues at the Federal Court of Fiscal and Administrative Justice
· Round Table before the IACC “Intellectual Protection”.
· Infringement on Intellectual Property issues at the Merida Counselor’s College.
· Infringement on Intellectual Property issue at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara.
· Participation at the IPR Conference Niagara Falls and INTERPOL Ipcag Meeting.
· Participation on the 2007-APEC-PEG Symposium on Internet Infringement Prevention Strategies and Enforcement Measures.
· Participation on the round table about Similitude on Trademarks, among others.

The Director of International Co-operation Department, Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (ROSPATENT)

Mikhail Faleev was born on February 5 1958.

In 1984 he was graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (International Law Faculty).

During 1984–1987 he was the lawyer in the USSR Ministry of external trade.
During 1987–1993 he was the legal counselor of Russian embassy in the Republic of Iraq.
During 1993–1995 he continued to work as the lawyer in Russian Ministry of external trade.
During 1995–2002 he was working as Counselor of Russian Mission in Geneva.
In 2002–2005 he was the deputy Director of Legal Department in the Russian Ministry of external trade.

Since 2005 he is working as the Director of International Co-operation Department, Russian Federal Service for intellectual property, patents and trademarks (ROSPATENT).

Zhang Yonghua, an official of Legal Affairs Department of State Intellectual Property Office of China (SIPO). Obtained the Bachelor Degree of Engineering in 1998 and the Bachelor Degree of Law in 2000, and then, obtained the degree of LLM of IP from John Marshall Law School in 2007. Working in Legal affairs department of SIPO since 2000, joining in the twice revision to the Patent Law of China and working as a training teacher for new examiners.

Takao Ogiya is Executive Counselor of JIII and Director General of Intellectual Property Research Center at JIII.

He joined the Japan Patent Office in 1978 and started his career from Metal Processing Division, 3rd Patent Examination Department. During the period from 1996 to 1999, he was a Director for Patent Management, and from 1998 to 1999, he was also a Director for Academic IP Advancement Office, in General Affairs Division, General Affairs Department. In 1999, he became a Director for Examination Policy Planning, Administrative Affairs Division. From 2001 to 2004, he was Visiting Professor at Kyoto University. And from 2003 to 2005, he was Deputy Director General of Cabinet Office (Intellectual Property). He was Deputy Director General of 3rd Patent Examination Department from 2005 to 2006. Subsequently, he was Executive Manager for Human Resources Development, National Center for Industrial Property Information and Training (INPIT) from 2006 to 2008.

He holds Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from Osaka University.

Received his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Chung Yuan Christian University, Chinese Taipei. In 2008, he also completed the Executive Leadership Program organized by the Executive Yuan and Harvard University. His academic interests focus on biomedical engineering, biosensors and its applications.

He completed 6 articles published in international scientific journal papers and presented 8 articles at international scientific conferences. He has been employed by the Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) since November 1993, and is currently Deputy Director of Patent Division I and Senior Patent Examiner. Previously at TIPO, he had the titles of Assistant Patent Examiner, Patent Examiner and Section Chief. Mr. Liao also recently served on the committee for developing a draft amendment to the Patent Act. Moreover, he is an editing committee member of Intellectual Property Journal (Publishing Agency: TIPO). His working experience includes prior art searches, patent examinations and re-examinations, patent amendment and invalidation examinations, and appeal and administrative litigations. He also enjoys giving lectures in “Practices on patent filing and examination” for several universities and academic institutes.

Practice Experience

Mr. Mitchell has over thirty six years of experience, much of it in Asia and is one of the leading American lawyers specializing in investment and financing transactions around the world.

Prior to joining White & Case in September 2007, Mr. Mitchell was General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He became General Counsel of the ADB in 2003 and supervised all aspects of legal advice given with respect to documentation of public sector and private sector loan transactions, equity investments, political risk guarantees and bond financings. Mr. Mitchell managed an office comprised of 42 attorneys from 18 countries and was responsible for compliance with Bank policies and procedures. He advised the President and the Board of Directors on corporate governance, institutional and administrative matters, and all litigation involving the bank.

Throughout his career, he has had considerable experience in:

• cross-border M&A transactions
• project financing of large infrastructure projects (including manufacturing plants and real estate)
• negotiating the formation of incorporated and unincorporated joint ventures
• investments in and for private equity and other funds
• structuring cutting-edge financial products
• corporate governance initiatives

Mr. Mitchell is the author of numerous articles on legal developments in Asia and beyond.

Bars and courts:
· New York State Bar, 1976
· Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi in Japan, 2008

Education
· B.S., Political Science, University of California, 1970
· J.D., Harvard Law School, 1973
· Kyoto University Faculty of Law, Kyoto, Japan, 1973-75

Professional Associations
· The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
· Council on Foreign Relations
· Tokyo Second Bar Association · Chair, Government Relations Committee; American Chamber of Commerce in Japan
· Waseda University Graduate School of Finance, Accounting and Law Visiting Lecturer on Overseas Investments

Languages
· English
· Japanese

Prof Mohamed Shariff a national of Malaysia, has been teaching in Universiti Putra Malaysia (formerly known as University of Agriculture Malaysia) for the last 33 years. He is a veterinary doctor specialized in fish diseases. His invention “The FastTarget” a rapid PCR nested diagnostic kit for white spot shrimp virus won him several medals including the WIPO gold medal in 2001. He then commercialized his kit to help reduces losses to the shrimp industry.

In 2006, Prof Shariff was appointed the founding Director of Innovation and Commercialisation (ICC) at the university. He started the centre from scratch and now has 30 staff members under three divisions 1) Commercialisation, 2) Promotion and Training and 3) Intellectual Property. ICC is now recognized as a good model in Malaysia for patent management and commercialization of university technologies. The centre won the National IP award from Malaysian Intellectual Property Corporation (MyIPO) in 2008.

Prof Shariff has attended several courses on intellectual property and commercialisation organized by WIPO and Malaysian Intellectual Property Corporation (MyIPO). He is currently actively involved in creating awareness regarding intellectual property to the university community, evaluation of IPs, management of IPs and commercialisation of university R&D technologies. His centre has commercialized 15 products/technologies and formed 5 joint venture companies. In March this year Prof Shariff was appointed the director of Putra Science Park in his university.

Prof Shariff has served as resource person to share his experience at WIPO organized seminars in Brazil, Korea, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Seri Lanka and Malaysia.

Prof Shariff has published more than 130 scientific publications, edited various proceedings on fish health and written one fish health book for fish farmers.

Akihisa Kamegaya is Director of Licensing Promotion Department of National Center for Industrial Property Information and Training.

He gained a master's degree in material engineering at Weseda University.

He joined Japan Patent Office (JPO) in 1992. He started his professional career from Metal Processing Division, 3rd Patent Examination Department and had acquired his expertise as a patent examiner from 1992 to 2000. During that period, he was engaged in work at the International Affairs Division of JPO for one year. In 2000, he was appointed Deputy Director of a division which is responsible for formulation of intellectual property policy in Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. After studying at Stanford University as a visiting fellow in 2004, he had been active at Examination Department and Appeals Department etc. (Examination of patent applications in the field of Metal Processing, Metals and Electrochemistry and Plastic Engineering etc) from 2005 to 2010. In April 2010, he was assigned the current post of Licensing Promotion Department of National Center for Industrial Property Information and Training.

Dr Vuckovic joined IP Australia in 2008 as a Deputy Commissioner of Patents and Assistant Registrar of Plant Breeder’s Rights. In this role he leads the activities of 170 staff responsible for patent and plant breeder’s rights examination in areas such as pharmaceuticals, chemistry, physics, electronics, computer systems, mechanical and chemical engineering, medical devices and biotechnology.

Prior to this appointment, Dr Vuckovic held senior positions with the Australian Department of Health and Ageing, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, and the Department of Environment and Heritage. In these positions, Dr Vuckovic played a pivotal role in strategic and operational planning and business process reform. A highlight of his career has been the formulation of Government policy on industrial chemicals safety and regulation under the auspices of the OECD Chemicals Program.

Dr Vuckovic has a PhD in organic chemistry and a Bachelor of Science with first class honors. His PhD project focused on the development of novel organic synthesis methodologies. It was a collaboration between the Australian National University’s Research School of Chemistry, the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation’s Division of Molecular Science, and DuPont Chemical.

Suresh Sachi is the General Counsel and head of A*STAR’s Legal Department. He oversees all legal and intellectual property affairs of the Agency, its subsidiaries, and the national research institutes funded and managed by the Agency.

His work involves corporate commercial matters and complex technology transfer arrangements, including research agreements and licensing contracts and corporate matters and he also undertakes responsibility for establishing and maintaining the Group’s IP Policies, risk management, compliance, and advising on new legislation affecting the Agency.

Suresh Sachi serves as a member of A*STAR’s Senior Management and has served on the Board and Executive Committee of Exploit Technologies as well as on the boards of a number of other companies, including A*STAR spin-off companies.

Prior to joining A*STAR, he was the lead partner in the Technology and Intellectual Property Department of a leading law firm in Singapore.

Suresh Sachi is admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and a Registered Patent Agent. He is a Past-President and founding member of the Licensing Executives Society Singapore and is currently the Vice-President. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the IP Academy and is a member of the Law Society of Singapore having previously served on its Intellectual Property Sub-Committee for several years. He was an active member on the Ethics Committee of the Singapore Eye Research Institute for over 10 years and is now a member of the SingHealth Centralized Institutional Review Board. He was an active member of the Biomedical Sciences Executive Committee, Intellectual Capital Working Group (Intellectual Property Sub-Committee) and is a member of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore Mentorship Funding Scheme Committee.

Mr. Ueno is Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property Law Department, IBM Japan. In this position, he has overall responsibility for all IP matters and operations in Japan.

Mr. Ueno joined IBM Japan in 1997 and served as a patent attorney, as Associate Patent Portfolio Manager and as a Managing Patent Attorney, prior to assuming his current position. From 2000 to 2002, he also served as a patent attorney at IBM Watson Research Lab, IBM Global Services, and IBM Corporate Headquarters in New York.

Mr. Ueno received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Tokyo. He became a registered Japanese Patent Attorney in 1996, and passed United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent Bar Exam in 2000.

Mr. Ueno is Vice President of Japan Intellectual Property Association.

Personal Information

Education and experience in school life
Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea, 1998 A member of Computer Programming Club in Seoul National University, 1992-1998

Present Post
Senior Deputy Director, Multilateral Affairs Division, Korean Intellectual Property Office

Work Experience
Cooperation with WIPO, August 2010 to present
Taking charge of WIPO Committees and Occasions such as General Assembly, Committee on Development and Intellectual Property(CDIP), I Inter-Government Committee(IGC)

Technical Cooperation with WIPO, May 2007 to present

• Improve the PCT-ROAD system: improve DB structure and functions, reflect the PCT rule change, and improve the quality of electronic data (RO-WASP data) the PCT-ROAD produces.
• Improve the quality of the PCT data in XML and image format which KIPO sends to WIPO via EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) network.
• Develop an IP document digitization software, etc.
• Develop English and Arabic version of IP Panorama which is a e-learning toolkit in the field of IP and disseminate it to other countries.

Technical Cooperation with APEC, May 2007 to present

• Develop IP Xpedite which is an e-learning toolkit in the field of IP and disseminate it to other countries.

Member of WG2 (Working Group 2)¹ in IP5, May 2008 to present

• Coordinate the Mutual Machine Translation project to overcome language barriers for work sharing: drafting a proposal and a mandate plan to improve the quality of existing machine translation services at each office, conducting a short term task which mainly focuses on upgrading machine translation systems through the user’s feedbacks.
• Participate in the TDSAWG (Technology and Data Standards Area working group), which is Trilateral Standards working group.

Technical Cooperation with the Trilateral Patent Office, May 2007 to present

• Develop and operate the priority exchange system with the EPO, JPO, and USPTO.
• Develop and operate the file wrapper access system with the JPO and USPTO.

Technical Cooperation with other Patent Offices, May 2007 to present

• Conduct technical consultation for the modernization of IP office automation system of the patent offices in Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Mongolia.
• Develop patent search software and install it in the Indonesian patent office.
• Develop IP digitization software and install in the Mongolian patent office.

Patent Examiners, October 2007 to May 2007

• Examine a patent application and a PCT application in the field of mechanical engineering.
• Panel of Users Group of KIPOnet system for three years, which is a IP office automation system in KIPO, of which main task is suggesting a variety of functions and technical solutions to upgrade the KIPOnet system.

¹ WG2 is in charge of performing 6 IT-related foundation projects to eliminate unnecessary duplication of work among the 5 IP offices (the EPO, JPO, KIPO, SIPO and USPTO) and enhance patent examination efficiency and quality.

Date of Birth and Age: October 27, 1949, 60 years

Present Position: Professor of the Graduate School of Economics & Management, Special Advisor to the President of Tohoku University (COI Management), Deputy Director of New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe), Director(1999- ) and President(2005-2007) of Tohoku Techno-Arch Co. Ltd., (TLO for Universities in Tohoku Region) Co-founder & Auditor of Tohoku Innovation Capital Co. Ltd., (Venture Capital Firm headquartered at Sendai City for University Spin-offs in Tohoku Region) (2003- ) Auditor of Aoba Techno Core Co. Ltd., (Incubator for Tohoku University) (2004- ) Faculty Fellow of Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry supported by METI（2007-2009)

Education: March, 1973; Graduated from the Faculty of Humanity, Niigata University March, 1975; MA from the Graduate School of Literature, Tokyo University of Education March, 1980; Getting the full credits for the Doctoral Course of the Graduate School of Social Sciences majoring in Economics, Tsukuba University

Employment: 1982-93; the Japan Associated Finance Co. Ltd., (Now JAFCO, Leading Venture Capital Firm in Japan) General Manager of Corporate Planning Department of JAFCO (1989-93) Director of Nomura/JAFCO Investment (Asia) Ltd. (1991-93) (VC Arm of JAFCO in ASEAN Region, headquartered in Singapore)

Award:"Bayh-Dole Award 2005" presented by AUTM

Professional Membership and Public Activities:
· Vice President, the Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneur (JASVE),
· Member of the Japan Association for Small Business Studies, the Society for Economic Studies of Securities, the Japan Society of Business Administration, the Japan Society for Science Policy and Research Management and AUTM
· Editorial Board of Venture Capital: An international journal of entrepreneurial finance,
· Chairman of the Special Task Committee for OTC Market by MITI (1997-98), Chairman of the Special Task Research Committee on the University Spin-off Ventures by MEI (2005-2008), and so on.