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

Drive the roll out of flagship ICC guidance to policy makers – including the IP Roadmap and ICC Innovation Principles – to inform the development of effective legal frameworks and enforcement approaches.

Benchmark government IP and innovation programs aimed at supporting SMEs through the Covid-19 crisis.

Support the roll-out of tools to help small businesses better leverage their IP assets.

Provide a forum to identify emerging policy approaches to the intersect between the use of digital technologies and IP rights.

Inform ongoing UN treaty negotiations to recalibrate existing legal frameworks governing the relationship between scientific research, innovation and biodiversity preservation.

Swiss Delegates

• Andrés Guggiana, Philip Morris International
• Stephane Hedarchet, JTI
• Myrtha Hurtado Rivas, Nestlé SA    
• Patrick Kohler, Schindler Holding Ltd 
• 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 
• Varun Vats, Syngenta
• Thomas Winkler, F. Hoffmann-La Roche

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

For further information
Daphne Yong-d'Hervé
Senior Policy Manager
Tel: +33 1 49 53 28 24
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Further Information

• Headquarters - Policy Commission on Intellecual Property
• Headquarters - Issues and trends
• Related Work economiesuisse - Immaterialgüterrecht
• Related Work Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property