FICPI News // February 2024

Welcome to the February issue of FICPI News! ? Read about the latest FICPI initiatives, including the FICPI SEAD Patent Drafting course in Singapore, the FICPI ABC Meeting in Edinburgh, the 2024 FICPI Open Forum, the special discount for FICPI members attending the ABA IPL event, and details of our February webinar. ?

Roberto Pistolesi, President, FICPI

The renowned FICPI SEAD 2024 Patent Drafting Course is now open for registration until 1 March 2024. This prestigious course has been running since 1997 and the 2024 SEAD Course will include two separate weeks in-person tutoring in Singpore, with a low tutor:student ratio and 6 months online tuition in between.

Apply now if you have 1-5 years’?experience in the IP profession and seek to improve your drafting skills?and practical knowledge of the most commonly used IP systems.

Tutoring will be delivered by experienced practitioners from jurisdictions including Europe, USA,?and Canada. The tutors represent technical fields from electrical engineering, mechanics, biology,?and chemistry and all have experience in teaching and tutoring FICPI patent drafting courses.?

??? ? March - September 2024

?? ?IPOS Singapore and online*

Apply now!

Applications close 1 March 2024

*2 weeks in person, the remainder online

Click here: ??? 22nd FICPI Open Forum

??? 25-28 September 2024 ?? Madrid, Spain

Welcome to our newest FICPI members ?

Welcome to our new members!

Mr Markus Gangl, Torggler Hofmann, Austria

Mr Rudolf Griss, Sonn & Partner Patentanw?lte, Austria

Mr David Trauner, Sonn & Partner Patentanw?lte, Austria

Zhilei Xu, China

Ms Nadia Ambadar, Am Badar & Am Badar, Indonesia

Mr Apiwatt Kongsoowan, Domnern Somgiat & Boonma Law Office Ltd, Thailand

Mr Kevin Cranman, Modiano & Associati SPA, USA

We also welcome the new members of our other National Associations and Sections.

Member of the Month: February 2024

We welcome nominations!

Nominate a colleague or yourself - email [email protected]

FICPI ABC MEETING 2024

Edinburgh, 15-19 June 2024

ABA-IPL Annual Meeting 2024

Special discount for FICPI members

FICPI Webinars and Podcasts

• Do you have clients outside the US thinking of investing in US technology?
• Do you have technology clients in the US thinking of taking investment from outside the US? ?

Find out all you need to know to advise them when Ed Lebow, former Assistant General Counsel of the ITC, explains how to?guide both foreign buyers and domestic sellers of companies with sensitive technologies through the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

This session is open to FICPI members and other interested parties.View all the upcoming webinar dates at: https://ficpi.org/eventstraining/upcoming-webinars

Catch up on sessions you missed at FICPI On Demand or on your podcast platform of choice (search for FICPI 45), including Louis-Pierre Gravelle’s recent session with ChatGPT

ASIPI celebrates diversity

Thanks to Diana Arredondo (USA), past President of ASIPI’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee 2021-2023, and Joana de Mattos Siqueira (Brazil), current President of ASIPI’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee, for their article highlighting ASIPI’s strides in promoting and encouraging diversity and inclusion across Latin America.

Click to read the full article.

Sponsor FICPI or exhibit at the 2024 Open Forum

Find out more: https://ficpi.org/events/exhibitors-and-sponsors

Thanks to our 2024 sponsors: