Working Programme
The FICPI World Congress 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 and Breakout 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. Essential topics for IP attorneys – from AI to conflicts of interest, from brand battles to firm cooperation together plus the UPC to ethical trademark issues
FICPI's popular "three-stream" sessions will feature pre-eminent experts in the IP field, including João Negrão, Chief Executive, EUIPO; Carl Josefsson, President of the Boards of Appeal, EPO; and Ken-Ichiro Natsume, Assistant Director General, Infrastructure & Platforms Sector, WIPO.
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 taking the lead in organising the working programme for the FICPI World Congress!"
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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