Our Head of Patents Elisabetta Papa  and Sofia Santoro are to attend the AIPLA 2025 Annual Meeting, taking place 30 October-1 November 2025 at the Westin Washington, in Washington DC.

Società Italiana Brevetti is a long-standing supporter of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), whose mission it is to foster innovation, creativity, and fair competition by empowering IP professionals within an effective and balanced intellectual property system through education, advocacy, and the mutual support of a diverse community of peers.

Elisabetta and Sofia are active AIPLA members and Sofia is currently Co-chair of the association’s Intellectual Property Practice in Europe Committee.

Both are looking forward to catching up with fellow AIPLA members, meeting practitioners from all over the world and enjoying the event’s sessions and social events.

This year’s Annual Meeting program covers many key current IP issues and trends, including:

• Trends Across Global Patent Offices
• Hot Topics in AI
• Closing the Patent Gap: Practical Policy Solutions to Resolve Global IP Disputes
• New Trademark Rules
• Litigation Funding
• Restatement of Copyrights

Hands-on skills workshops will also be available, as well as a number of social events, such as a Diversity Reception, New Member/First-Time Attendee Reception, Corporate Practice Committee Breakfast, Women in IP Committee Breakfast, and the Opening Night Reception.