Overview
Lobbying Costs
10,000€
Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.1 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Intellectuelle (FICPI)
EU Transparency Register
34137929067-33 First registered on 08 Jul 2012
Goals / Remit
Founded over 100 years ago, FICPI represents IP attorneys in private practice internationally with more than 5,000 members in over 85 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 t (...)Main EU files targeted
Regular meetings with EC officials of various DGs responsible for IPRs; topics are mainly patents, trade marks, design, enforcement of IPRs
(within the EU and abroad).
Interested in the Innovation Union, trade secrets, geographical indications projects of the Commission.Address
Head Office
Holbeinstrasse, 36-38
Basel 4003
SWITZERLANDEU Office
Holbeinstrasse, 36-38
Basel 4003
SWITZERLANDWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 10% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Whilst many FICPI members give up substantial amounts of their time to participate in the work of the Federation, as IP attorneys in private practice, none of them dedicates more than 25% of their time to the activities described under heading 9.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Trade and business associations
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
10,000€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
0€ - 10,000€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Other activities
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 EUIPO's administrative board and budget committee (ABBC).
FICPI participates in the EU Observatory on on Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights and in its Legal, Economics and Statistics, and Enforcement Working Groups.
Meetings
Meetings
None declared