The OxFora 14th Intellectual Property and Competition Forum, this year entitled “The Global Chess Game: International Patent Strategy in a Fragmented World”, is to take place in the DPMA Forum in Munich (as well as online) on June 23 and 24, 2026.
The topics covered will include injunctions and how they reshape bargaining power and global licensing dynamics, how ASIs and interim licences have become tactical tools, long-arm jurisdiction in patent disputes after BSH Hausgeräte v. Electrolux, Licensing Negotiation Groups, as well as how China is influencing the global patent licensing and litigation stage.
ip fray has covered OxFirst events before, including last month, when Judge Victor Torres of the Rio de Janeiro State Court said that Brazil should not be the underdog and that he would be prepared to engage with judges from other jurisdictions about criteria for antisuit injunctions and similar cross-border instruments (May 13, 2026 ip fray article). We also covered OxFirst’s 12th IP and Competition Forum in Oxford in January, when Presiding Judge Dr. Oliver Schoen (“Schön” in German) of the Munich I Regional Court’s 7th Civil Chamber revealed that he had asked the court to provide additional capacity because the 5% increase in cases was “way too high” for two chambers alone (January 13, 2026 ip fray article).
The speakers include executives from an array of companies, law firms, the European Commission, and the Bundeskartellamt, including:
- Access Advance’s Jeffrey Blumenfeld
- Xiaomi’s Na Wei and Shuang Cheng
- ByteDance’s Vivienne Li
- Nokia’s Collette Rawnsley (February 18, 2026 ip fray article) and Dr. Clemens Heusch
- Huawei’s Dylan Li and Dr. Thomas Dreiser
- BSH’s Dr. Thomas Buchholz
- The Fair Standards Alliance’s Alexander Prenter
- HP’s Alessandro Orsi
- Giesecke+Devrient’s Gerhard Tschiedel
- Qualcomm’s Chris Longman
- Dell’s Tom Brown
- Amazon’s Lara Rogers
A large handful of some of the most prominent judges will also be speaking, including:
- Prof. Peter Meier-Beck, Former Judge, Supreme Court of Germany & UPC Advisory Board
- Dr. Oliver Schoen, Judge, Landgericht Munich (who we interviewed recently: March 30, 2026 ip fray article)
- Dr. Hubertus Schacht, Presiding Judge, Landgericht Munich (who replaced Dr. Georg Werner in February)
- Dr. Florian Schweyer, Presiding Judge, Landgericht Munich
- Katalin Tözsér, Judge, Landgericht Munich
- Fabian Hoffmann, Judge, Supreme Court of Germany
- Dr. Kemal Bengi, Chair, Board of Appeal, European Patent Office
- Dr. Christopher Heath, Chair, Board of Appeal, European Patent Office
- Victor Diz Torres, Judge, Juiz de Direito, Rio de Janeiro
- Dr. Stefan Wilhelm, Judge, Unified Patent Court
- Christoph Schober, Judge, Unified Patent Court
- Juan He, Judge, Supreme People’s Court of China
- Sir James Mellor, Judge, High Court of England & Wales
This edition is sponsored by Licks Attorneys, Hogan Lovells, Nokia, RPX, Freshfields, Vossius & Brinkhof, and Thum & Partner. It also has contributions from the following: Access Advance, Carpmaels & Ransford, DLA Piper, Huawei, Xiaomi, Fair Standards Alliance, King & Wood Mallesons, and Hoffmann Eitle.
Registrations for all online sessions are still open and can be accessed here: https://www.oxfora.org/webinar-14th-forum-live/.