Four chief intellectual property officers - Béatrix de Russé of Thomson; Scott Frank of AT&T; Bill Elkington of Rockwell Collins; and Erin-Michael Gill, formerly of OQO Inc - discuss the CIPO role and how it is developing, along with Ron Laurie of Inflexion Point Strategy and Rob Sterne of Sterne Kessler

Ruud Peters, CEO of Philips IP & Standards, and Caroline Kamerbeek, its head of communications, discuss the formation of the IP Brand Development Group, the importance of reaching out to SMEs and why communicating the value of IP to a general audience matters so much.

Marshall Phelps, corporate vice president for IP policy and strategy at Microsoft, and David Kline, co-author of Rembrandts in the Attic, discuss their book Burning the Ships: IP and the Transformation of Microsoft; as well as the attributes a top class chief IP officer needs to possess. Look out, too, for Phelps's reaction to David Kappos being nominated as the next director of the USPTO

USPTO director David Kappos discusses his plans to improve patent quality and maximise agency efficiency. Interviewed at the third IP Business Congress in Munich