Our partners Elisabetta Papa and Andrea Soldatini are to take part in the 2022 AIPLA Annual Meeting, taking place in Washington, DC 27-29 October 2022.

On 28 October at 4 pm Andrea, who has 25 years’ experience of patent protection and design registration in Italy and internationally, is to speak during the event “Global Design Protection Developments – What is the Article of Manufacture? New Limits, New Opportunities”; Andrea will be joined in the discussion by Stephen Yang, a Chinese patent attorney and managing partner of IP March. The event will be moderated by Elizabeth Isaac, Director and patent attorney at Dunlap Codding.

Elisabetta is the program coordinator of the Leadership Discussion on the Unified Patent Court and the Unitary Patent taking place on Saturday 29 October morning; speakers include Willem Hoyng, Chair of the UPC Advisory Committee and Partner at Hoyng Rokh Monegier; Bernard Ledeboer, Board Member of the European Patent Litigators Association; Lauren Rose Keller, European and U.S. Litigator; Vicky Salmon, English Solicitor, UK and European Patent Attorney, Patent Attorney Litigator.