Mandate

To promote efficient intellectual property (IP) systems that support international trade, encourage investment in creation and innovation, and facilitate sustainable economic development.

   

Priority Projects

  • Inform potential policy approaches to curb the growing threat of abusive third-party funding of IP litigation.
  • Lead business engagement in UN biodiversity negotiations on benefit sharing frameworks at the interface between research, innovation and biodiversity preservation.
  • Champion effective policy approaches at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), EU Intellectual Property Office, World Customs Organisation and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to combat counterfeiting and piracy – with a particular focus on vulnerable “hot spots”, such as free trade zones.
  • Engage and partner with leading programmes at WIPO on innovation, green technologies, frontier digital technologies and capacity building for business.
  • Support the roll-out of tools to help small businesses better leverage their IP assets.
  • Update the flagship ICC IP Roadmap in response to new policy developments and industry trends over the past five years.

 

Swiss Delegates

  • Andrés Guggiana, Philip Morris International SA
  • Stephane Hedarchet, JT International SA
  • Myrtha Hurtado Rivas, Nestlé SA    
  • Patrick Kohler, Schindler Holding Ltd 
  • Jan Lucht, scienceindustries
  • John Moetteli, Da Vinci Partners LLC 
  • Leonie Ritscher, economiesuisse
  • Michael Ritscher, MLL Legal
  • Olivier Sauvageot, Syngenta
  • Margot Stuart, OriginAll SA
  • Peter Thomsen, Novartis International AG
  • Thomas Winkler, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd

 

 

The ICC's intellectual property tool-kit for chambers of commerce

 

For further information
Danny Grajales
Global Policy Manager - IP & Innovation
Tel: +33 610 64 94 18