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Fide and TIPSA join forces to organize a serial of digital encounters to try and find out if Intellectual Property is equipped to face the ongoing changes that our world is experiencing.

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Friday, January 30th, 2026 | 4.00 pm CET

GDE 41: Patents as a key tool for innovation and economic growth

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Patents as a Key Tool for Innovation and Economic Growth – GDE 41 Report

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GDE Vol. 2

Re-imagining IP in an ever-changing world: Global Digital Encounters Vol. 2

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The Global Digital Encounters have formed an Academic Faculty and Family of Speakers and Moderators, composed of worldwide known Academics and IP Senior Specialists from all continents. This Faculty and Family is constantly growing.

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GDE 4O: The EUIPO Boards of Appeal: a constant European IP success story

Global Digital Encounters. Encounter 40: December 9th, 2025 | Sven Stürmann (EUIPO BoA), Agata Sobol (Lexsential), Adoración Pérez Troya (Univeristy of Alcalá) and Laurent Manderieux (Bocconi University)

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GDE 4O: The EUIPO Boards of Appeal: a constant European IP success story

GDE 39: Generative AI models at the gate

GDE 38: The Unified Patent Court at age 2: a major European IP success story

GDE 37: Protecting and Enforcing Digital Marks and Designs

GDE 36: IP in war time and international tensions

GDE 35: The future of copyright offices in the AI and digital environment

GDE 34: AI, copyright and licensing

GDE 33: Eastern Asia: The new paradise for patenting

GDE 32: The UPC after eight months: achievements and challenges?

GDE 31: Testing borders of IP rights: compulsory licensing and beyond

GDE 30: IP Implications of the Data Economy

GDE 29: Tech versus Humans? AI-powered language models and IP Battles

GDE 28: Copyright and Designs: a renewed relationship?

GDE 27: Intellectual Property: A Key Tool for Museums

GDE 26: Unitary Patent and UPC are on: and now what?

GDE 25: Shaking the Good Old IP Kit: The Metaverse

GDE 24: Vintage Brands and the New Bad Faith Conundrum

GDE 23: IP enforcement and Cybersecurity

GDE 22: Open Science and Intellectual Property: the Dilemma

GDE 21: The Metaverse as a Challenge to Classical IP

GDE 20: Standard Essential Patents

GDE 19: Artificial Intelligence and the Audiovisual World

GDE 18: IP and Videogames

GDE 17: Licensing Standard Essential Patents

GDE 16: Protecting Domain Names in a worldwide context

GDE 15: Cross-Border IP Disputes: The ILA-Kyoto Guidelines

GDE 14: Expanding Business Thanks to Data Economy: IP as a Tool

GDE 13: Cultural Heritage and IP

GDE 12: The Race for the Vaccine: from Invention to Effective Vaccination – IP as a Tool or as a Toll?

GDE 11: The Future of Geographical Indications and Traceability in a Covid Transformed World

GDE 10: Fostering a Dynamic IP System Based on Sustainable Development Goals (SGD’s)

GDE 9: Brexit – European and Worldwide IP

GDE 8: The Artificial Intelligence and Data-Led Revolution of Copyright and Its Wider Implications

GDE 7: Trade Secrets: A Re-Visited Business Tool Towards A New Rebound

GDE 6: Trademarks as a business tool towards a new rebound

GDE 5: AI, Software, and Patents: Towards a Post COVID Changing Game

GDE 4: IP arbitration in a digitally enhanced world

GDE 3: International IP and Access to Pandemic Treatments

GDE 2: From west to east: trade, IP and investment after the crisis

GDE 1: Challenges of the IP system in a post-crisis environment

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