The 15th edition of the OxFirst IP and Competition Forum is to take place at Oxford University (as well as online) on January 13 and 14, 2027.
The topics covered will include:
- Licensing
- SEPs and FRAND
- Competition policy
- UPC
- Global patent enforcement
ip fray has covered OxFirst events before, including when Judge Victor Torres, a Judge at the Rio de Janeiro State Court in Brazil, told an audience in Munich in June that the real reason SEP disputes are split is that parties won’t cooperate, and so it is up to the courts to step up (June 24, 2026 ip frayarticle). At the moment, he said, courts’ methods are not working because “every jurisdiction wants to be important”:
“Everyone wants to be here, everyone wants to play a part in all this. Sometimes, when we grant an ASI, it’s to assert our own jurisdiction, which is the opposite of what we have been preaching (judicial modesty).”
According to the judge, granting injunctions to block each other means progress will never happen:
“Yes, of course, judges are going to be famous, but we are not going to start a conclusion.”
A month prior, the same judge also noted that Brazil should not be the underdog at a separate OxFirst webinar (May 13, 2026 ip fray article).
ip fray also covered OxFirst’s IP and Competition Forum in Oxford last 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).
This edition’s speakers include a large handful of some of the most prominent judges, such as:
- Lord Justice Richard Meade of the High Court of Justice for England & Wales (EWHC),
- Lord Justice Colin Birss, Chancellor of the EWHC
- As well as judges from the UPC,
- the Commercial Court of Brazil, and
- The Patent Court of Korea.
Executives from an array of companies will also be speaking, including from:
- Access Advance
- Amazon
- BMW
- Dell
- Ericsson
- HP
- Huawei
- Qualcomm
- Nokia
- Panasonic
- Philips
- RPX
- Samsung
- Xiaomi
- ZTE
To register for the event please click here. ip fray readers can use the following discount code upon registration:
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