FICPI is an association which has built, and continues to strengthen, a worldwide community of independent Intellectual Property attorneys to promote common solutions and advocacy for private practice.

FICPI supports its worldwide community of like-minded IP professionals with activities which include:

• Collecting and distributing relevant information.
• Study of reforms and changes which impact the ownership, security or effectiveness of IP rights.
• Promoting positions, reforms and changes which are in the best interests of members.
• Providing training and education.

FICPI is established under the following names:

• Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Intellectuelle
• International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys
• Internationale Föderation von Patentanwälten

FICPI is:

• registered as a Swiss association in the Commercial Register of the Canton of Basel, Switzerland.
• VAT registered as taxpayer under number CHE-174.336.864.
• referenced in the public UID-Register.