AIPPI ADR Committee Webinar Series

Steven Geiszler, attorney-at-law, former U.S. Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for Huawei
Steven served for almost a decade as a senior in-house IP lawyer for Huawei but recently left to open a solo legal practice with Huawei as his anchor client.
Before Huawei, he practiced patent litigation for 15 years in Dallas at international law firms (Jones Day, Gibson Dunn, Dentons).
Steven has appeared as counsel of record in more than 170 patent lawsuits and managed more than 80 cases for Huawei, including FRAND patent-licensing disputes and trade-secret matters.
Steven now focuses on global patent licensing (particularly SEPs) and has been lead negotiator or a core team member in numerous 8- and 9-figure licensing deals with aggregate value of approximately $2 billion.
He is a proponent of mediation and, on June 2, 2026, participated in the mock mediation/arbitration presented at the Unified Patent Court’s Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (UPC PMAC) inauguration in Ljubljana.
A native of Snyder, Oklahoma, Steven is a graduate of Baylor University and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Clemens Heusch, VP at Nokia and Head of Global Litigation and Disputes Team
Dr Clemens-August Heusch LL.M. is VP and Head of Global Litigation and Disputes at Nokia, responsible for litigation, arbitration and mediation globally with a strong focus on multi-national IP litigation and arbitration. Since 2008 Nokia has been involved in more than 200 patent cases worldwide.
Before joining Nokia in 2008, Clemens was an attorney-at-law at the international law firm Bird & Bird LLP. He studied law at the Universities of Freiburg and Bonn, Germany; received an LL.M. degree from the University of Maastricht, Netherlands, and a doctorate from the University of Cologne, Germany. During his traineeship, he worked inter alia in the competition law team of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Cologne and Brussels, Belgium.
Clemens is a registered lawyer at the Cologne Bar and is a certified IP lawyer. Fluent in German, English and French, he regularly presents and writes on a range of legal topics. He is based in Germany.

Isabelle Romet, full-time mediator
Isabelle Romet is a full-time French mediator, specializing in intellectual property disputes, working in French and English.
Before that, she used to be an IP litigator, active in patent cases, for 28 years.
Her track record includes mediations for all IP matters (patent, trademark, copyright, software, plant variety certificate, know-how, unfair competition), in all types of disputes (ownership, infringement, disputes relating to agreements), in all economic sectors.
She conducts domestic and cross-border mediations both in French and in English. She has extensive experience in online mediation. Her experience of co-mediation may be helpful for cross-cultural disputes.
At the first PMAC Dispute Resolution Forum in Ljubljana on 2 June 2026, she served as a mediator in the PMAC mock Med-Arb relating to a hypothetical cross-border SEP/FRAND dispute.
She holds several certifications in French and Anglo-Saxon-style mediation: she holds a university diploma from Ifomène, as well as certifications from the CMAP/ESCP (Paris Mediation and Arbitration Centre), the CEDR (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, London), and the IMI (International Mediation Institute). Her background also includes Negotiation Master Class from Harvard Law School.
She is registered on various mediator lists: Courts of Appeal of Paris and Bordeaux, PMAC as an accredited mediator, WIPO Mediation and Arbitration Center, AME (Association of European Mediators), and ANM (National Association of Mediators).
She provides training on IP mediation and negotiation at universities and IEEPI (European Institute Enterprise and Intellectual Property) programmes.
She is a co-founder of the French PMPI association (Promotion of Mediation in Intellectual Property).
She is active in several IP associations, including LES France, AIPPI, AFPPI, APEB and APRAM.

Dr Claudia Tapia, Head of Global IPR Policy Research and Academic Relations, Ericsson, President, 4iP Council
Dr Claudia Tapia is the Head of Global IPR Policy Research and Academic Relations at Ericsson, where she leads the IPR Policy Research team and oversees its global activities.
Prior to joining Ericsson, she served as Director IP Policy at BlackBerry, where she focused on various aspects of IP, including IP policies in standards, global patent policies, licensing and litigation.
In addition to her role at Ericsson, Claudia is the President of 4iP Council, a non-profit research council dedicated to developing high-quality academic insight and empirical evidence on IP and innovation.
She also hosts the podcast ‘IoT & IP Explained’.
She also serves on the Editorial Committee of 20Minds, the Advisory Board of the IP Policy Institute – IPPI (University of Akron School of Law) and of the Center of Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP), and the Editorial Board of The Patent Law Magazine.
Claudia holds a law degree from the University of Valencia, an LLM degree specialising in International Patent Law from Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich and a PhD (summa cum laude with a Max Planck Institute scholarship) on FRAND and Standardisation in the telecoms sector from the Faculty of Law in Augsburg.
She is also an ICF-accredited Executive Coach, an Expert Coach in Emotional Management, an Expert in Psychology of Coaching by the UNED university in Spain, and a Team and Leadership Coach.