When IPWatchdog, Inc invited me to share my wishes for the new year, I selected these: 1) A détente between the US and China, and that what we can do through “big-tent” IP conferences, institutional partnerships between IP stakeholders, and a resilient and proactive network of people-to-people ties can make a difference, 2) A Singapore-style copyright exception for text and data mining to promote the growth of AI industries in the US while protecting the rights of content owners here, and, 3) That multilateral and regional organizations will regain their relevance in helping establish relevant, responsive, and balanced worldwide IP norms. Key issues like access to vaccines and treatments, cross-border forum shopping in standard-essential patent litigation, the protection and enforcement of AI-related technologies, and emerging issues like non-fungible tokens and virtual spaces like Facebook’s metaverse demand coherent and balanced answers on a global scale. You can read my full contribution and others from Alden Abbott Mercatus Center at George Mason University, George Mason University Nick Aries Bird & Bird Megan Bannigan Debevoise & Plimpton Aziz Burgy Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP Julie Burke #IPQualityPro James De Vellis Foley & Lardner LLP Marla Grossman American Continental Group Thomas Isaacson Polsinelli Blair Jacobs McKool Smith Efrat Kasznik Foresight Valuation Group Stephen Kunin Maier & Maier, PLLC Scott McKeown Ropes & Gray LLP John Rogitz ROGITZ & ASSOCIATES University of Illinois Chicago School of Law here: https://bit.ly/3FPH9QO

Hosted by Allen & Overy France, Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) France, 4th edition of the #Paris conference on #StandardEssentialPatents and #FRAND brings together two international stakeholder panels to debate #IP and #competition issues relating to mobile communications,#IOT, and more. I look forward to moderating the first panel on December 14. Hope to see you there! To learn more about the speakers and the agenda, check out the conference website here: https://bit.ly/3Ed86NH Ruud Peters Mathieu Klos JUVE Verlag für juristische Information GmbH Andrei Iancu Irell & Manella LLP Rudi Bekkers Eindhoven University of Technology Pio Suh IPCOM Clemens Heusch Nokia Marianne Frydenlund Nordic Semiconductor Michael Schlögl Continental Anne-Charlotte Le Bihan Bird & Bird David Por Judge Dr. Klaus Grabinski Judge Richard Meade Judge Nathalie Sabotier Judge Edger Brinkman Prof. Guangliang Zhang

Every #thanksgivingweek IPWatchdog, Inc Editor-in-Chief Eileen McDermott curates a special post featuring reflections on what the IP community is thankful for. Here's mine. You can read Eileen's full post here: https://bit.ly/3rhn0Pa ______ I am thankful for a rare consensus between pharma and tech – that patents rules governing artificial intelligence are sound. George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy’s Virtual 2021 Annual Fall Conference focused on the interface between #artificialintelligence and #intellectualproperty. Panelists from biopharma companies like Novartis and Genentech on one panel, and from Google on another, shared the view that current patent rules supported AI innovation. These two industries have vastly different business models and deeply divided views on patent law and policy. Those views had stumped #patenteligibility reform. Had either side been dissatisfied with the status quo on AI, they could have lauded developments elsewhere, including recent ones in South Africa and Australia, as pointing the way forward here in the United States. Notably, they did not. Industry consensus gives the government guidance and the time and space to consult widely, as the USPTO has done on AI, and to make balanced and carefully considered adjustments where needed. That is as it should be.