Overview 

Resources:

• PTO Trilateral Working Group Paper 
• EPO Trilateral Working Group Paper 
• Draft Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) 
• Draft Regulations for SPLT 

Monday, November 10

Welcome and Introduction 

• Moderator – Rick D. Nydegger

PRESENTATION OF ISSUES

First-to-File  - CIPA                            

• Presentation by Timothy Roberts 
• Paper by Timothy Roberts 
• Appendix 
• Questions and Clarifications 

Grace Period - FICPI                      

• Presentation by Francis Ahner and Robert Mitchell 
• Paper by Francis Ahner 
• Appendix 
• Questions and Clarifications 

Prior Art - IPO

• Presentation by Jeff Hawley 
• IPO Position Paper 

Applicability of Pending Applications as Prior Art

• Presentation by Dr. Christof Keussen 
• Position Paper 

• Presentation by Charles Van Horn 
• Power Point Presentation 
• Paper by Charles Van Horn 
• Questions and Clarifications 

COMMENTS

• Introduction by Rick Nydegger 
• IPIC — Bill Edgar and John Bochnovic 
• JIPA — Sumio Numoto
• CNCPI — Jean-Bruno Thevenet and Alain Michelet 
• IPTA — Malcolm Royal 
• epi — Walter Holzer 

Tuesday, November 11

• Moderator – Anna Denholm

Summary of Trilateral Agreement 

• Mike Kirk

• AIPPI — Michael Brunner
• IIPS — Michael Pantuliano and Sam Helfgott
• IIPS Position Paper 
• UNION — Gwilym Roberts
• JPAA — Kazuaki Takami
• CNIPA — John Brown
• UNICE — Mike Barlow
• TMPDF — David Lewis
• Attendee Observations — John Pegram
• BDI — Lothar Steiling
• IPI — Tony Rollins
• ABA/IPL — Bill LaFuze and Todd Dickinson
• ICC — Ivan Hjertman
• APAA — Ichio Shamoto
• ABPI — Ivan Ahlert
• OCPI — Francesco Macchetta
• OCPI Paper
• FICPI — Julian Crump and Jan Modin
• IPO — Robert Armitage
• Prior Art Paper by Robert Armitage 
• CIPA — Catriona Hammer
• Patentanwaltskammer (DE) — Dr. Christof Keussen
• AIPLA — Rick Nydegger
• Attendee Observations — Philip Thomas, Robert Armitage, Walter Holzer, Ivan Ahlert, and Michael Brunner
• Observations by WIPO — Francis Gurry

Next Steps – All Participants

Concluding Remarks