🎉 Happy World IP Day 🎉
To celebrate this year’s theme IP and Sports, ECTA has launched a series of initiatives:

ECTA RUNS TO DUBLIN

This week, we kicked-off a global challenge with various ECTA members running from different countries to the same final destination: the ECTA Annual Conference in Dublin 🏃‍♂️ ☘️

• Benjamin Fontaine (ECTA Second Vice-President, Plasseraud IP) - running from Alicante [video]
• Juan Berton Moreno (Berton Moreno IP Law) - running from Buenos Aires [video]
• Katri Kiviniemi (Castrén & Snellman) - running from Helsinki [video]
• Ike Ibeku (Benchmac & Ince) - running from Abuja [video]
• Mary White (Murgitroyd) - on the home stretch, running in Dublin [video]

ECTA friends around the world, lace up your shoes and make your way to Dublin - we look forward to seeing you all at the finish line! Sign up here!

INTERVIEW WITH BENJAMIN SCHINDLER (FIBA, Fédération Internationale de Basketball)

🎤 In this focus interview, conducted by Anna Ostanina (ECTA Head of Legal and Institutional Relations), Benjamin Schindler (Senior Legal Affairs Manager at FIBA, Fédération Internationale de Basketball) reflects from a practical perspective on more than a decade of experience at the intersection of sports governance and IP enforcement.

The discussion explores the specificities of the sport industry and the limits of traditional IP tools in an event-driven environment. His insights offer a perspective on how federations balance legal theory, operational constraints, and sponsor expectations in major international competitions and how external counsels can support them on this journey.

Enjoy reading it! 🏀