This is the first Patent International, and it’s Patent International 2011. This will become an annual event where we will bring you recent developments and updates from countries around the world. I want to thank in particular before we begin – Chris from McAndrews, Held and Malloy Ltd. who are platinum sponsors, and it is a pleasure for us to have them as our sponsors. Chris is one of the foremost authorities in the world on design patents and you will be able to hear him shortly. And, Mr. Zeev Fisher – Mr. Fisher is from Fisher Weiler Jones, a patent prosecution boutique in Israel
and in the U.K., and Mr. Fisher’s firm, Fisher Weiler Jones is our corporate sponsor for today.

And, besides from that we have our speakers, who are also our sponsors, and I will let Mr. Fisher do the introductions to all of them, because they are a distinguished group and it is our pleasure to have you here today to introduce your firms to us, and the recent developments in your countries.

Without further ado, I’m going to introduce you to Mr. Zeev Fisher, whose going to take the mike and he’s going to continue as the M.C. today, and again we are thrilled to have you with us, and please enjoy yourselves.

Zeev Fisher

Hello, hi all.

Thank you for choosing us over the rest. I hope you all enjoyed the brunch. We will be having speakers or great attorneys whom I know all personally, and if you’re looking for good attorneys, good foreign counsel, and different jurisdictions all of them are really great. Order of speaking will be the U.S. (Chris); then Europe (me) (hopefully I will have enough time for Israel as well); then Aaron Horowitz – the most Chinese guy in the room, who will speak about China; then we have Wing – Wing will be the most Canadian guy in the room as you can see; then we have Anjan Sen of Anjan Sen Associates who will speak about India; then we’ll have Iswan from Singapore; Eric from South Africa; and Brian of EKM from Australia; and Mexico … – any connection to my country is completely by chance. So this will be the order of the presentations. We will be discussing the same subjects from different perspectives, so you’ll have an opportunity to know at a very early stage whether you like it or not.

Before that, Chris being a platinum sponsor, has another subject that will not be discussed by other speakers which is “Design Litigation In the US”, so we’ll have “Design Litigation In the US” and then we’ll have the same subjects which roughly relate to “Filing Patents in Different Jurisdictions”, and we’ll have them one after the other; the same issues with slight differences.

So without further delay, Chris, please….