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ICC Commission on Intellectual Property

Commission officers

Chair Urho Ilmonen, Director Corporate Relations, Group Security, Nokia Corporation (Finland) (See Biography below)

Vice-Chairs German Cavelier, Alternate Director, Cavelier Abogados (Colombia)
Peter D. Siemsen, Senior Partner, Dannemann, Siemsen, Bigler and Ipanema Moreira (Brazil)
Ronald E. Myrick, Partner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner (United States)
Rapporteurs Thomas Pletscher, Member of the Executive Board, economiesuisse (Switzerland)
Timothy Roberts, Principal, Roberts & Co., (UK)
Commission Secretary Daphne Yong-d'Hervé

The Commission on Intellectual Property brings together leading experts from all over the world to promote an environment favorable to for the protection of intellectual property on national, regional and international levels. It believes that the protection of intellectual property stimulates international trade, creates a favorable climate for foreign direct investment, and encourages innovation and technology transfer.

ICC works closely with intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations involved in intellectual property policy, such as the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
Priorities
• post-Doha negotiations on the TRIPS agreement
• intellectual property aspects of the protection of traditional knowledge and of access and benefit sharing in relation to genetic resources
• patent law harmonization
• patents on software and business methods
• copyright and trademarks in the digital environment
• enforcement of intellectual property rights, and working against piracy and counterfeiting.

http://www.iccwbo.org/home/intellectual_property/commission.asp

Biography of Urho Ilmonen

Mr Urho Ilmonen was born in 1953 in Tampere, Finland. He graduated as a lawyer from Helsinki University in 1980, and joined the law firm Roschier-Holmberg & Waselius. There he was admitted to the Finnish bar, and handled commercial issues, litigated and was active in IPR matters.
In 1987 Mr Ilmonen joined the legal department at Nokia Corporation, becoming head of Nokia Mobira Oy's legal services in 1988. His responsibilities included advising on commercial legal matters, supervising litigation on a global basis, as well as supervising IPR and corporate security activities.
Some of the more significant cases handled during this time included the ITC litigation between Motorola Inc. and Nokia, as well as antitrust litigation between Adcom, inc. and Nokia, both in the United States. Mr Ilmonen also handled important acquisitions and divestions, including Technophone Ltd and Cue Paging, Inc.
Product liability and electromagnetic fields issues have frequently been on Mr Ilmonen's list of activities. He has participated in setting up these activities at Nokia.
Mr Ilmonen is a specialist in intellectual property rights. He has worked for AIPPI and LES, and has chaired ICC's Commission on Intellectual Property since 2002, having been the vice chair since December 1998.
He has also been chair of the EICTA Legal and Consumer policy commission since the beginning of 2001.
In 2002 Mr Ilmonen became Director, Corporate relations, Group security, heading the internal service responsible for protecting the people, assets, business and brand of Nokia.

http://www.iccwbo.org/home/intellectual_property/Urho_ilmonen_bio.asp

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