Monday, May 4th, 2026
4.00pm CEST
Monday, May 4th, 2026
4.00pm CEST
Patents represent a key tool for innovation and economic growth: in our previous encounter we explored how patents are providing inventors a safe basis for promoting their research results, allowing investors and society to identifying innovation opportunities and making them blossom, and playing a key role in modern economy and society.
In the current Encounter we are exploring why and how patents, as tools for economic growth, represent key tools for international cooperations in favor of innovations. How do patent statistics translate this role? How may patents favor international cooperations between companies and research centers? How do national, regional, and WIPO patent registration mechanisms facilitate such international cooperations? Still, which current limits and limitations to international cooperations to promote innovations do exist, and can and how sooner or later they could be overcome?
Distinguished Speakers and Moderator from the Western World shall consider these questions that are central worldwide.
EPO Chief Economist
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at New York University School of Law
Professor of Intellectual Property Law at L. Bocconi University of Milan, Italy
Monday, May 4th, 2026 | 4.00pm CEST
Yann MÉNIÈRE
Craig NARD
Galen J. Roush Professor of Law and the Director of the Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Arts. He is also a Visiting Professor at Bocconi University School of Law in Milan, Italy, and a Senior Lecturer at the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy at the University of Torino, Italy.
Nard practiced intellectual property law in Dallas, Texas, prior to becoming the Julius Silver Fellow in Law, Science, and Technology at Columbia University School of Law. After his fellowship, he clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. for the Honorable Helen W. Nies, and then the Honorable Giles S. Rich. Nard has published in various law reviews, including the Northwestern Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Review of Law & Economics, Supreme Court Economic Review, Tennessee Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, and the Wake Forest Law Review. He is also the author of the patent law casebook, The Law of Patents (Aspen Publishing – 6d ed. 2022), and The Law of Intellectual Property (Aspen Publishing – 5th ed. (2019) (with Madison and McKenna).
In 2014–15 and 2024-25, Nard was voted “Professor of the Year” by the First-Year law school class. This award is given to those professors who best contributed to the first-year law school learning experience. In 2018, he was awarded the “Alumni Distinguished Teacher Award,” which recognizes faculty “whose commitment to education and the pursuit of knowledge enriched the personal and professional lives of students.”
Nard served as a member of the Northern District of California Advisory Committee on Model Patent Jury Instructions appointed by the Honorable Ronald M. Whyte of the Northern District of California. He is licensed to practice before the Patent and Trademark Office and is a member of the Texas bar.
Rochelle DREYFUSS
Pauline Newman Professor of Law Emerita at New York University School of Law and co-Director of NYU’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy. With Jane Ginsburg and François Dessemontet, she was a Reporter on the American Law Institute’s Project on Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes. Her writings include Advanced Introduction to International Patent Law (with Margo Bagley); Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America (with César Rodríguez-Garavito); A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: Building a Resilient International Intellectual Property System (with Graeme Dinwoodie); The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law (with Justine Pila); The Law and Theory of Trade Secrecy (with Katherine Strandburg); and numerous articles and book chapters on intellectual property. She has served on committees of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences dealing with intellectual property law, a National Institute of Health Advisory Committee on genetics and health, the Intellectual Property Section of the American Association of Law Schools, and the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). Prior to becoming a lawyer, she was a chemist working in the pharmaceutical sector.
Prof. Laurent MANDERIEUX (Italy/France)
Professor of Intellectual Property Law at L. Bocconi University of Milan, Italy, Member of the Directorate Board, Bocconi LL.M in Law of Internet Technology, Director, Bocconi Summer Schools in Law, Chair, European IP Teachers’ Network, Coordinator, Transatlantic IP Academy and is invited Professor / Lecturer of Intellectual Property Law in Universities and Training institutes in many countries of Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. In addition to his IP teaching, numerous Publications, and IP research activities at Bocconi, one of the most prestigious and high-ranked Universities in the European Union, Laurent Manderieux is Senior Intellectual Property Expert for various international Organisations and governments. He was for many years Official and Senior Official at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland: in particular, as Head, WIPO Public Affairs and Media Relations, he took care of training and information for government officials, lawyers, researchers, scientists, and business circles (in this capacity he prepared training material and IP publications, and made up to 100 presentations per year). Before joining WIPO, he also worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in Rome, Italy; and at the European Union in Brussels. Over the last two decades, he wrote numerous publications and studies, and undertook international projects for the EU, the EPO, UNDP, UNCTAD, WIPO, IDLO, OIF, and various Governments. In this context, visited some 140 countries. He works in French, English, Italian, Spanish, and German. Member of Fide’s International Academic Council.
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