The 16th FICPI Open Forum in St. Petersburg
Members of FICPI Russia - Valery Medvedev, Mikhail Mozhaisky, Vladimir Rybakov, Mikhail Khmara, Eugene Arievich, Yury Kuznetsov, Natalia Stepanova, Marina Grineva and Maria Nilova attended 16th Open Forum FICPI in St. Petersburg (October 5-8, 2016),namely, E.Arievich moderated Workshop «Retirement & Mentoring: Keeping Knowledge Within the Firm», M. Mozhaisky spoke at Workshop «Trade mark practice beyond the Roman alphabet», M. Grineva spoke at Worksjop «Trade mark coexistence and its effects on rights» and N. Stepanova spoke at Workshop «Enforcement: When and where to act?».
At the Plenary Session (October 7, 2016) Leonid Voronetsky, Vice President of Eurasian Patent Office, gave a presentation about development of Eurasian Patent Convention and activity of the EAPO.
More than 350 IP specialists from 50 countries attended the Open Forum which for the first time FICPI held with a great success in Russia.