Working Programme

FICPI's 22nd Open Forum is an opportunity to strengthen existing relationships and create new ones, driven by FICPI's focus on bringing independent IP attorneys from around the globe together to connect, share knowledge and grow.

Plenary Sessions, led by experts in their fields, promise to enhance professional excellence and to share insights and viewpoints to improve leadership skills, profitability and professional practice.

FICPI's popular "three-stream" sessions will feature pre-eminent experts in the IP field, including Calim Bouhadra, former CEO of Rebellion Timepieces and current Product Vice President of KOS, and Sergio Rizzo, member of the Boards of Appeal at EUIPO.

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Thursday 26 September 2024

Time	Stream // Session Name
09:00-09:10	Welcome Address
09:10-10:30	Plenary // Primal leadership – the hidden driver of great performance
11:00-12:30	Patents // Drafting without borders - high tech Patents // Drafting without borders - life sciences Trade Marks & Designs // Unveiling the benefits and pitfalls of the Madrid & Hague Systems
14:00-15:30	Plenary // Unmasking the mirage: navigating the landscape of fake evidence in IP proceedings
16:00-17:30	Patents // Embracing the future: how to leverage AI for patent searching, drafting, and prosecution Trade Marks & Designs // Sound marks – are they just 'full of sound and fury, signifying nothing'? IP Practice Management // Bringing IP to life through IP valuation

Friday 27 September 2024

Time	Stream // Session Name
09:00-10:30	Plenary // Win-win pricing of IP legal services: how to set fees that are competitive in your market and profitable for your firm
11:00-12:30	Patents // Patent linkage Trade Marks & Designs // From zero to hero IP Practice Management // AI & IP: an arranged marriage? Decoding a relationship not so intellectual
14:00-15:30	Patents // The “CANs” and CANNot’s of CANNabis [and psychedelics] IP rights Trade Marks & Designs // FICPI goes to the movies IP Practice Management // Riding the wave of progress: how patent law firms can support their clients' innovation growth
16:00-17:30	FICPI Committee Meetings // Practice Management (PMC) and Study & Work (CET)

Programme Manager

Michael Caine (AU)
FICPI // Vice President
Davies Collison Cave

"I am delighted that as well as being Vice President of FICPI, this year I have the pleasure of again taking the lead in organising the working programme for the FICPI 22nd Open Forum for 2024, running from 25-28 September in Madrid."

Michael became the Vice President of FICPI in 2022 after four years as Vice President of FICPI’s Study & Work Committee (CET). Prior to that he spent six years as the chair of the International Patents Group of the CET. He is also a Past President of the Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia (IPTA). During his 22 years as a member of IPTA council he served a number of roles including President from 2019 to 2021, Vice President from 2015 to 2019, convenor of the International Patents Committee from 2001 to 2009 and convenor of the Patents Legislation Committee from 2009 to 2019. He is currently a member of IPTA’s President’s Advisory Committee.

Michael is a patent attorney and principal of Davies Collison Cave in Melbourne, Australia, where he heads up the firm’s organic chemistry/pharmaceutical group. Michael’s professional activities include providing patent infringement and validity advice, conducting patent oppositions, filing and prosecuting pharmaceutical patent term extensions, and providing litigation support and strategic patenting advice.

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The 22nd Open Forum Working Programme