Claudia Tapia
Cost & Benefits of standards
Claudia Tapia is IPR Counsel in the department Patent and Standards Strategy at Research In Motion, a leader in the worldwide mobile communications market and the company behind the award-winning BlackBerry® solution. Claudia holds a law degree at the University of Valencia, Spain and a LLM degree at the University of Law Ludwig Maximilian (LMU) in Munich, Germany. Recently, after two years scholarship at Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, Claudia has successfully defended her PhD with a summa cum laude. The main focus of the thesis resided on Industrial Property Rights, Technical Standards and Licensing Practices (FRAND) in the Telecommunications Industry. She is a member, amongst others, of ETSI, IPO, EU Chamber in China, DIN and DigitalEurope.