Conference Participants

Areas of Practice/Speciality: Intellectual Property, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, IP Strategy.

Pravin Anand, Managing Partner of Anand and Anand, completed his law studies and was admitted to the Bar in 1979. Since then, in a career spanning almost 4 decades, he has become a leading figure in intellectual property law and as well as representing many of the World’s leading companies and institutions he has worked tirelessly to create one of the most innovative and forward thinking law firms in India.

Mr. Anand has been counsel in a large number of landmark IP cases including the first Anton Piller order (HMV cases), the first Mareva Injunction Order (Philips case), the first Norwich Pharmacal Order (Hollywood Cigarettes case), the first order under the Hague Convention (Astra Zeneca case) and many significant cases for Pharma clients such as Merck, Roche, Pfizer and BMS.

Among the highlights of his career are:

• Most Innovative Lawyer – Asia Pacific (FT Asia-Pacific Most Innovative Lawyers 2015)
• AIPPI Award of Merit (First Indian legal practitioner to receive the award)
• Life Time Achievement Award – Legal Era
• Life Time Achievement Award – National Law Day Award-2010
• First two decrees in contested patent cases granted after 45 years of patent litigation in Roche vs Cipla and Merck vs Glenmark.

Sir Richard Arnold was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1985 and became a QC in 2000. He was Chairman of the Code of Practice for the Promotion of Animal Medicines Committee from 2002 to 2008, an Appointed Person hearing trade mark appeals from 2003 to 2008 and a Deputy High Court Judge from 2004 to 2008. He was appointed to the High Court, Chancery Division in October 2008 and was appointed to be Judge in Charge of the Patents Court in April 2013. He was appointed as an External Member of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office in March 2016. He is the author of Performers’ Rights (5th ed, Sweet & Maxwell, 2015), the editor of the Halsbury’s Laws of England title Trade Marks and Trade Names (5th ed, Butterworths, 2014), was editor of Entertainment and Media Law Reports from 1993 to 2004 inclusive and has published numerous articles in legal journals.

Martha de Francisco is a record producer and recording engineer specializing in Classical music. A native of Colombia, she has established a prominent international career for over thirty years, invited to produce recordings with the most distinguished artists in the world, including soloists such as Alfred Brendel, Jessye Norman, and Lang Lang, conductors Sir Simon Rattle and James Levine, and orchestras such as those of Vienna, Philadelphia, and Montreal.

A graduate of the renowned Tonmeister program at the Musikhochschule Detmold, Germany, de Francisco was one of the pioneers of digital recording and editing in Europe during the 1980s. On staff as producer/engineer/editor with Philips Classics, she developed long lasting working relationships with many prominent artists.

Martha has recorded for the major record labels and in the most prominent music venues in the world. Her recordings have received numerous major awards in Europe and in North America.

Martha de Francisco is currently a tenured Associate Professor at McGill University and a member of McGill’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), where she contributes to the reputation of her academic program as a worldwide leader in its field. Her research interests include music recording with virtual acoustics, critical listening studies, and the aesthetics of recorded music.

Martha is a frequent lecturer at international professional conferences, a regular judge at international student recording competitions, and a sought-after guest lecturer at leading schools for higher education in Audio in various countries. She is fluent in six languages.

Martha de Francisco has previously served as an expert witness in a case of suspected music piracy, and she has also moderated a panel bringing together lawyers and recording practitioners at the Audio Engineering Society in 2013, entitled, “The Timeline Never Lies: Audio Engineers Aiding Forensic Investigators in Cases of Suspected Music Piracy”

As a special note, Martha’s mentoring of women engineers and producers is enabling the creation of new women leaders in different places in the world. She has worked to improve the status of women in a male-dominated industry.

Associate Professor
Department of Music Research
The Schulich School of Music of McGill University
CIRMMT Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology
IPLAI Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas
Tel: 514 398-4535 ext: 089796

martha.defrancisco@mcgill.ca

Johannes Großekettler is a German-Qualified Lawyer (”Volljurist”) who will soon embark upon his career as an attorney in the field of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law.

During his studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, Johannes developed a strong interest in Intellectual Property law and participated in his university’s specialist program for Intellectual Property Rights. After graduating and passing the First German Legal State Examination, he completed his LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow.

As part of his legal traineeship, Johannes worked for the London ”IP, Information and Innovation” and “Media and Entertainment” departments of Reed Smith LLP, the Munich “Litigation & Dispute Resolution / Intellectual Property department” of Clifford Chance Deutschland LLP, and the Copyright and Design Right Chamber, as well as the Unfair Competition and Patent Chamber, of the Regional Court Hamburg. Because Johannes is also interested in Data Protection Law, he completed another stage of his traineeship at the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.

Louise Harris is an electronic and audiovisual composer, and a Lecturer in Sonic and Audiovisual Practices at The University of Glasgow. Louise specialises in the creation and exploration of audiovisual relationships utilising electronic music and computer-generated visual environments. Her work encompasses fixed-media, live performance and large-scale immersive installations, with a recent research strand specifically addressing Expanded Audiovisual Formats (EAF). Louise’s work has been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Sweet Thunder Festival, San Francisco, USA (2014), Strasbourg Museum of Modern Art, France (2012, 2013), Sonorities festival, London/Belfast (2014, 2015, 2016) and Piksel Festival, Norway (2012, 2013, 2014). Recent commissions include 30-minute radio art works for Stazione di Topolo and RadioArts, with the RadioArts commission subsequently broadcast on Resonance FM and as part of the Borealis Festival. Louise was the first female recipient of the Klingler Electroacoustic Residency in 2016, has been shortlisted for the Lumen Prize (2012) and was awarded the World Prize at the Electroacoustic Competition Musica Viva (2011). Most recently, her piece pletten was awarded first prize at the 2016 Fresh Minds Festival.

School of Culture and Creative Arts
University of Glasgow
14 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QH

T:0141 330 3235
louise.harris@glasgow.ac.uk
www.louiseharris.co.uk
http://www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/music

Kimberley A. Isbell serves as Senior Counsel for Policy and International Affairs in the U.S. Copyright Office. Before joining the Copyright Office, Ms. Isbell was Senior Counsel at the American Society of Clinical Oncology, a publisher of two medical journals. Ms. Isbell is a former fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society of Harvard University, where she worked on issues of law and policy affecting new media startups. Ms. Isbell spent eight and a half years in private practice at law firms in Washington, DC and Richmond, VA. While in private practice, Ms. Isbell specialized in many aspects of domestic and international intellectual property and technology counseling, prosecution, and litigation, with an emphasis on clearance, registration, and management of trademark assets; litigation and dispute resolution related to intellectual property and technology; and intellectual property, technology, Internet, and e-commerce licenses and agreements, with an emphasis on trademark and copyright matters. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School.

Rudolf Leška completed his law degree at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague (2007), and also holds a degree in theatre studies from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. He spent one year as a scholarship holder at the Faculty of Law of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (2007), and completed his LL.M. degree in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law in 2011. He subsequently completed his PhD at the Institute of Copyright, Industrial Property Rights and Competition Law at Charles University, writing his thesis on performers’ rights. He is a practicing copyright attorney licensed in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, ad writes regularly on copyright-related issues. Rudolf serves as president of the Czech national group of the ALAI (Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale), and is a member of the Executive Committee of the international learned society dedicated to studying legal issues related to copyright.

Rudolf Leška, advokát
Apolinářská 445/6
128 00 Praha
Czech Republic

tel. +420 272 658 926
fax +420 222 520 098

www.leska.eu
www.linkedin.com/in/leska

Giuseppe Mazziotti is an Italian attorney specializing in intellectual property law, media law, and information technology law.

He is currently Assistant Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Trinity College Dublin, School of Law, where he teaches at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, conducts research, and develops clinical projects, including collaborations with other law schools. From 2009 to 2012 he was Assistant Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Copenhagen, where he also led research projects funded by the EU Commission, including MEDIADEM (Media Policy-making in EU Member States) and LAPSI (Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information). Giuseppe held has visiting and research positions at the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia Law School, and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He is currently an Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, where he has also co-managed the CEPS Digital Forum.

Giuseppe also works as an independent legal consultant with his own firm (Mediartis: http://mediartis.it/en) and as ‘of counsel’ with Nunziante Magrone in Rome. He has advised the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), the European Commission (DG CONNECT), the European Parliament (DG for Internal Policies), and the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities on various projects concerning intellectual property law and information technology.

Giuseppe holds a summa cum laude Juris Doctor (JD) degree (2001) from the University of Perugia and a Master of Research (2003) and PhD in Law (2007) from the European University Institute in Florence.

He also holds a Master’s degree in Clarinet Performance (1997) and Chamber Music (2003) from the Music Academy of Perugia (Conservatorio di musica di Perugia). For ten years, from 1994-2004, Giuseppe was the principal clarinettist for the Perugia Symphony Orchestra, and a critic and speaker for the Italian radio broadcaster RAI Radio 3. He was also one of the founders and editors of the Musikethos project from 2005 to 2009.

Dr. Giuseppe Mazziotti
School of Law, House 39
New Square, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2, Ireland

T: +353 1 8962071
Mob: +39 347 3018306
email: giuseppe.mazziotti@tcd.ie
https://www.tcd.ie/Law/GiuseppeMazziotti/index.php

Ela Orleans (born in Oświęcim, Poland) is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer. Various independent labels around the world have released her solo studio albums, as well as compilations, mixes and collaborations. Ela has toured and made festival appearances across the UK, Europe and North America. Her work presented internationally in galleries such as Tate Britain, MASS MoCA, Les Abattoirs, Venice Biennale and MoMA. She has been commissioned to score music for TV, film, and opera.

Ela Orleans is a PhD candidate in Music at the University of Glasgow, where she will expand on her subject ‘*Apparition: The Adaptation of Archival Image and The Doctrine of Moral Rights in a Post-Digital Aesthetic.’ *

Erin Simon is a Product Counsel on the Knowledge team at Google.  She is the primary lawyer for several aspects of the eponymous search engine, among them Autocomplete, the Knowledge Graph, and Google Books.  A product counsel’s remit is global, so Erin has become familiar with a wide range of legal issues, from defamation in Japan to intermediary liability in the United States to data protection in the European Union.  Copyright, of course, is a major and continuing focus of her work.

Before Google, Erin litigated intellectual property disputes at the firm of Fenwick & West, LLP, where she was honored to receive a judicial award for pro bono service.  She is a double graduate of New York University: first, the College of Arts and Sciences, where she studied Linguistics; then the NYU School of Law.  She has also worked as a web designer, photographer, and occasional writer.

Erin is currently based in Paris.  Most weekends you will find her out exploring with her camera.