27/05/2026
The Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe (FBE) had the honour of participating in the EUIPO IP Case Law Conference 2026 in Alicante, one of Europe’s leading and most influential high-level conferences dedicated to intellectual property law. ⚖️🇪🇺
Organised by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) under the theme “Growing through change”, the event brought together judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the General Court, members of the EUIPO Boards of Appeal, leading IP practitioners, academics, representatives of patent offices and international organisations from across Europe.
The conference was opened by João Negrão, Executive Director of EUIPO.
This year’s programme addressed some of the most important and rapidly evolving challenges shaping the future of intellectual property law, including EU trade mark case law, copyright and AI disputes, design law, domain names, genuine use, weak marks, strategic enforcement and the protection of marks outside Latin and Cyrillic scripts.
Among the distinguished speakers were Krystyna Kowalik-Bańczyk, President of the Third Chamber and Judge of the General Court of the European Union, who previously participated in the first edition of the FBE Women Leaders in Law Summit.
FBE was represented at the conference by Izabela Konopacka, President of the FBE Intellectual Property Law Commission and former FBE President.
The conference clearly demonstrated that intellectual property law is becoming increasingly central to the future of the legal profession in the context of accelerating technological transformation and the global development of Artificial Intelligence.
Photo: Judge Krystyna Kowalik-Bańczyk, President of the Third Chamber of the General Court of the European Union, and Izabela Konopacka, President of the FBE Intellectual Property Law Commission.
