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Global Series Madrid

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April 8, 2025 by

Global Series Madrid

Individual Registration
October 14, 2025, 9:00am - October 16, 2025, 12:00pm
The Intercontinental Hotel
Madrid, Spain

Overview

Mark your calendars for this 2.5-day session in Madrid, Spain!

Global Series sessions, part of an on-going dialogue since 2010, address topics of global significance at a senior level of discussion. Working closely with government representatives, adjudicators, corporate leaders, litigation leaders, academics, and others in the global community, the Series responds, in real time, to emerging challenges. The on-going Series includes participants from Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United States, the People’s Republic of China, Canada, Brazil, and other countries.

Agenda

Madrid Agenda

Topics:

  • UPC Actions in Global Cases and Interaction with National Courts
  • Protecting Trademarks and Trade Dress
  • Strategies for Protecting Innovations During the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Patents, Copyrights, Trade Secrets
  • Judicial Perspectives on Intellectual Property Litigation in a Globalized Innovation Landscape
  • Developments in SEP Litigation
  • Current EU legislative initiatives in IP regulations, EU perspectives in IP law
  • Developments in Pharma Law
  • European IPR Enforcement Directive
  • Pros and Cons of Bifurcated Systems
  • Developments in Spanish Patent Litigation
  • International Trade and Treaties
  • IP and Legal Issues That Can Arise From Events Such as the World Cup 2026

Speakers:

Laura Alonso, Partner, Hoyng Rokh Monegier
José Arochi, Partner, Arochi & Lindner
Christoph Bartos, Member of the Board of Appeal, European Union Intellectual Property Office
Cintia Bernhardt, Counsel, Bird & Bird
Toby Bond, Partner, Bird & Bird
Jan Bösing, Partner, Bardehle Pagenberg
Chris Burrell, Partner, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Manny Caixeiro, Partner, Venable LLP
Peter Camesasca, Partner, Camesasca BV
Lynn Carillo, Director of Commercial Legal, FIFA
Nuno Carvalho, Partner, Licks Attorneys
Clark Cheney, Chief Judge, United States International Trade Commission
Beatriz Díaz de Escauriaza, Head of Legal, Insud Pharma
Johannes Druschel, Partner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
Kevin Duan, Partner, Han Kun Law Offices
Lucy Flaim, Associate, Bird & Bird
Marcos Fraile Bermejo, Legal Director, DLA Piper
Claudia Frost, Partner, Steptoe
Ángel Galgo Peco, President of Chamber No 32, Court of Appeal of Madrid
Penny Gilbert, Partner, Powell Gilbert
Rodney Gilstrap, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Heinz Goddar, European Patent and Trademark Attorney, Boehmert & Boehmert
Klaus Grabinski, Judge, President of the Court of Appeal and chairperson of the Presidium of the Unified Patent Court
Greg Gramenopoulos, Partner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
Jimena Aburto Guevara, Legal and Compliance Senior Counsel, Novo Nordisk
Phillip Hirschhorn, Partner, Panitch Law
Taeksoo Jung, High Court Judge, IP High Court Korea
Patrick Keane, Executive Shareholder, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Ute Kilger, European Patent and Trademark Attorney, Boehmert & Boehmert
Rudy Kim, Partner, Paul Hastings LLP
Dennis Kretschmann, Technically Qualified Judge, Unified Patent Court
Chris Longman, Vice President, Legal Counsel, Qualcomm
Rui Luo, Partner, Han Kun Law Offices
Gustavo Andrés Martín, Judge, Commercial Court n.1 of Alicante
Laurent Massam, Partner, Gowling WLG
Amos Mazzant, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Florencio Molina, Judge, Commercial Court No. 5 of Barcelona
Kimberly Moore, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Melanie Müller, Attorney at Law, Boehmert & Boehmert
Seong-Soo Park, Partner, Kim & Chang
Sharon Prost, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Nik Purcell, Partner, Gowling WLG
Oriol Ramon, Partner, Vidal-Quadras & Ramon
Justyna Rasiewicz, Partner, Rasiewicz & Associates
Joe Reisman, Partner, Knobbe Martens
Jimmie Reyna, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Roberto Rodrigues, Partner, RNA Law
Jason Romrell, Partner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
Corey Salsberg, VP, Global Head IP Affairs, Novartis
Raquel Sampedro, Deputy Assistant Director, Department of Patents and Technological Information, Spanish Patent and Trademark Office
Kimberly Schmidt, Director of Patent Litigation, Intel Corporation
Kevin Scott, Licensing Program Leader Cellular Handsets/TV/STB, Philips IP&S
Devin Sikes, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Rafal Sikorski, Professor, SMM Legal, Adam Mickiewicz University
Jonathan Spadt, Shareholder, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Sheila Swaroop, Partner, Knobbe Martens
Álvaro Velázquez, Partner, Hoyng Rokh Monegier
Tess Waldron, Partner, Powell Gilbert
Jeremy Want, Principal, Smart & Biggar LLP
Alexandra Yang, Partner and Co-Chair, Fangda Law
Claudia Zeri, Attorney at Law, Coupry

Sponsorship

Annual Sponsorship Information

Madrid-specific Sponsorship Information

For more information on becoming a sponsor, please contact Roseanna Quinlan, quinlan@fedcirbar.org.

Registration Information

Sponsor Registration:

Sponsor registrants should use the separate registration form link sent to each sponsor’s POC

Individual Registration:

Private Practitioners – $1500 FCBA Member / $1800 non-member
Corporate/Government/Academic – $800

Hotel Reservations:

Hotel reservations at the Intercontinental can be made in our room block via the link contained in your registration confirmation email.  If you have registered and did not receive this link, please contact Jeremy Atkinson, atkinson@fedcirbar.org.

Other Notes:

Registration includes conference attendance for all 3 days, lunches on October 14 and 15, and receptions on October 13 and 15.

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