October 08 Thursday 09:00 – 10:30 CoWI.1 Room A ITU – WIPO Symposium on Dispute Resolution at the Crossroads of Information and Communications Technologies and Intellectual Property SESSION 1 OF 4: Introduction – ICTs and Intellectual Property in a Creative, Contentious Environment The ICT sector of today and tomorrow is increasingly characterized by changing paradigms brought about largely by the introduction of disruptive technologies and challenging business models. These changes have already resulted in new challenges to the intellectual property dimension in the form of disputes over patent, copyright and trademark in the ICT sector. In turn, these changes demand new and innovative public policy directions in the areas of network investment, competition in services and ever-newer media. Panellists Mr Rory Macmillan, Rory Macmillan (Switzerland) Mr Christian Bovet, Vice President, Swiss Federal Communications Commission ComCom (Switzerland) Mr Gordon Moir, General Counsel, BT Retail (United Kingdom States) Mr John Sykes, Head of Commercial Dispute Resolution Group, Charles Russel (United Kingdom) 90