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Bar News - June 18, 2004 International IP Attorneys Group Meets in Granite State
NHBA IP Law Section chair and FICPI member Peter J. Gardner, on the left, shown with FICPI-U.S. president-elect Charles Elderkin and president John Sutton, welcomed members of the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys to the organization’s 2004 meeting, held for the first time in New Hampshire. MARKING THE FIRST time they have gathered in New Hampshire, the U.S., Canadian, and U.K. sections of the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys held their 2004 meeting at the Wentworth-by-the-Sea in New Castle on June 2-6, 2004. Established in Europe in 1906, the organization, which is known internationally by its French acronym, FICPI, has a membership of approximately 3,800 private practice intellectual property attorneys in 70 countries, including Russia and China. The 61 FICPI members who attended the meeting were welcomed on June 3 at the Wentworth by NH Bar Association Intellectual Property Law section chair and FICPI member Peter J. Gardner, of Stebbins Bradley Harvey & Miller in Hanover. Gardner told the FICPI members that New Hampshire—with its broad array of technology and innovation businesses and a population of skilled knowledge workers—is emblematic of the emerging global knowledge economy. He noted that New Hampshire’s impressive corps of intellectual property and business law attorneys provides valuable support and legal counsel to the state’s and the region’s intellectual asset-based companies. On behalf of the NHBA Intellectual Property Law section, Gardner presented all meeting attendees with gift bags, prepared by the association’s staff, that contained maple syrup and maple candy produced by Bar staffer Cheryl Moore’s family at their Loudon sugar house, Sunnyside Maples. On behalf of the NHBA itself, Gardner presented FICPI-U.S. president John Sutton and president-elect Charles Elderkin with wooden pen sets. Attorneys can obtain further information on FICPI’s activities and membership policies at www.ficpi.org.
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