Iván L. Sempere

After working at the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, with a wide experience there, he is a practising lawyer specialized in design protection & enforcement, as well as commercial mediator and legal expert in the Intellectual Property (IP) field. He heads and coordinates the IP defence actions for different national and international companies.

He was President of the European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs, the FUNDEUN University-Business Foundation, and the INTA Design Committee, where he currently serves on the Programming Advisory Council and as a member of the Board of Directors. He also served as IP Counsel for the Valencia World Design Organization, as a keynote speaker for the Spanish group at the AIPPI 2016 International Congress in Milan, as a drafting member of the CP10 Working Group promoted by the EUIPO, and has been included on the list of EUIPO SQAP (Stakeholder Quality Assurance Panels) audits on design invalidity decisions. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of National Association for the Defense of Brands (ANDEMA) as well as counsel at several academic and business institutes and organizations..

He is very much linked and committed to the business world and entrepreneurship, having been the President of the University Enterprise Foundation –FUNDEUN (2012-2018), President of the European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs (YES) and received the AJEV Honorary Award “Young entrepreneur 2016” to his career path and the Forum Europe Gold Medal in 2013, Business Knowledge of Fundeun 2018 among other recognitions.

Recently named Honorific Professor of the University of Alicante, is regularly invited as international speaker in several master programmes and Universities, such as ICADE, George Washington University; and Business Schools, such as Fundesem, the Academy of European Law or Florida Universitaria. Regular speaker in a wide number of congresses and courses related to innovation and its protection or the development of entrepreneur values in many countries such as Spain, United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Dominican Republic, etc.

He is author of numerous publications and monographs in the field of IP, particularly known because of his researches and contributions to the protection and defence of the Designs and 3D Trademarks.