Jonathan Stroud, General Counsel of Unified Patents, joined others as a panelist at an event hosted by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) during the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO 2024. The panel, “Investor-funded Litigation as a Threat to the Patent System,” was moderated by Vishal Amin, Chair of ICC Global IP Commission. Among the many great speakers and panelists, Lisa Jorgenson, Deputy Director General of Patents & Technology at WIPO, gave the introduction and Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, was the keynote speaker.

Hundreds of delegates from WIPO’s 193 Member States joined the July 9-17 WIPO Assemblies to negotiate the future of the global intellectual property (IP) ecosystem and WIPO’s activities in promoting the economic, social and cultural development of all countries.