The FICPI Academy, supported by the Training & Education Committee, promotes training and education of FICPI members, potential members and others interested in IP protection.

The FICPI Academy has primary responsibility for devising the content for the working sessions at FICPI’s educational meetings such as its Open Forums and symposia. In this respect, it collaborates closely with the Study & Work Committee (CET) and the Practice Management Committee (PMC). The Academy supervises FICPI's webinar programmes.

The FICPI Academy also runs the SEAD™ Courses on patent drafting in Southeast Asia, Europe and recently Latin America.

Under FICPI’s strategic plan, the committee is also looking at measures for providing training and education to potential members in countries and regions where the profession is less well developed.  The president of the committee is elected by the EXCO, and its members are chosen by its president after consultation with the Bureau.

If you are interested in joining the Academy, please contact Eric Le Forestier.

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The TEC Commission is involved in developing the content for FICPI’s educational meetings, such as the Open Forums, held every two years out of three in Europe, and other symposia around the world.

It also supervises the work of the FICPI Academy of Education, a body of voluntary tutors and course coordinators who each year run patent drafting courses in Europe and Southeast Asia.

President
Name Company Country Contact
Mr. Eric Le Forestier
LE FORESTIER CONSEIL
France
Appointed Vice President
Name Company Country Contact
Mr. Essenese Obhan
Obhan & Associates
India
Course Coordinator
Name Company Country Contact
Mr. Geoffrey De Kleine
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Canada
Mr. Eric Le Forestier
LE FORESTIER CONSEIL
France
Members
Name Company Country Contact
Dipl.-Phys. Dr.-Ing. LL.M. Karl Heinz Rackette
RACKETTE Patentanwälte PartG mbB
Germany
Dott. Ing. Paolo Rambelli
Jacobacci & Partners S.p.A.
Italy
Mr. Peter H. Huntsman
Marquette IP
Australia
Mr. Jérôme Collin
Regimbeau
France
Mr. Shoichi Okuyama
OKUYAMA & SASAJIMA
Japan
Ex Officio Members
Name Company Country Contact
Dott. Roberto Pistolesi
Dragotti & Associati S.R.L.
Italy