Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Intellectuelle |
| Acronym: |
FICPI
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| Legal status: |
Unincorporated professional association
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| Website address: |
http://www.ficpi.org
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Trade, business & professional associations |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Julian Crump
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| Position: |
Secretary General |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Daniel Alge
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| Position: |
President, EUCOF Commission |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
36-38 Holbeinstrasse
Basel 4003
SWITZERLAND
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| Telephone number: |
(+41) 61 295 5700 |
| Fax number: |
(+41) 61 271 5200 |
| Other contact information: |
FICPI`s seat is in Basel, switzerland. However, all correspondence should be directed to the Secretary General at the following address:
Mr. J. R. J. Crump
Secretary General of FICPI
c/o Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo Intellectual Property, LLP
Alder Castle
10 Noble Street
London EC2 7JX
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 20 7776 7300
Fax: +44 20 7776 7301
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Founded over 100 years ago, FICPI represents IP attorneys in private practice internationally with more than 5,000 members in over 80 countries, including the US and Japan, a strong European membership and national sections in India and China.
FICPI's aims can be summarised as follows:
1. To enhance international cooperation within the profession of intellectual property attorneys in private practice, promote the exchange of information and harmonise and facilitate business relations between members.
2. To maintain the dignity of its members and the standards of the profession of intellectual property attorneys in private practice on an international scale.
3. To express opinion with regard to newly proposed international and national legislation, in so far as it is of general concern to the profession and to defend the interests of its members, in particular with respect to the maintenance and invigoration of the system of intellectual property protection and of the position of intellectual property attorneys in private practice.
4. To promote training and continuing education of its members and others interested in Intellectual Poperty Protection by organising local and regional ad hoc programmes.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
25
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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FICPI, via its European Members Commission (EUCOF), regularly attends meetings with various DGs in Brussels to discuss matters of mutual interest in the field of intellectual property.
FICPI comments regularly on proposals by the Commission for new laws or regulations in the field of intellectual property.
FICPI has observer status on the OHIM's administrative board and budget committee (ABBC).
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Competition
- Customs
- Internal Market
- Research and Technology
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2011
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12/2011
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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< 50000
€
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Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
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Procurement:
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0 €
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Grants:
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0 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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