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Review LIDC Congress 2025 Vienna13.10.2025

The LIDC Congress 2025 is now history and was a huge success!

The LIDC Congress 2025 is now history and was a huge success! More than 230 IP & Competition lawyers engaged in intensive discussions during the day and danced the night away in Vienna. But let's start this first review from the very beginning.
Guests from all over the world gathered on Thursday evening for a joint reception, where Wolf Theiss transformed his law firm into a bustling cocktail bar. Afterwards the party continued at the Klyo Bar especially for the LIDC - NEX GEN. The atmosphere on the dance floor reached its peak when Dominik Hofmarcher from the organising law firm Schoenherr Attorneys at Law joined the live band for a few songs.
On Friday morning, almost the entire Austrian Competition Community as well as all the international participants from Europe, Asia, Australia, Brazil and the United States came together at the beautiful House of Industry for a very rich program. Natalie Harsdorf, Director General of the Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde | Austrian Federal Competition Authority , gave a keynote speech on recent developments in Austria and Europe, followed by Creighton Macy als Global Chair Antitrust & Competition at Baker McKenzie with a perspective from the United States. Then Professor Georg Kodek, President of the Austrian Supreme Court of Justice, surprised us with a welcome speech and provided insight into current antitrust rulings, as he also serves as Senate President in this area.
After this opening session, eight panel discussions (each with five speakers from different jurisdictions and fields of expertise) were hold under the motto “Where Competition, IP and Unfair Competition meet!” We will post summaries of the whole scientific program at a later date on this site. At the end of this intensive day the guests enjoyed a special evening with a flying buffet high up in the Gloriette of Schönbrunn Palace.
On Saturday, the conference continued with a comprehensive treatment of the two international reports on the annual Questions A and B prepared by Pranvera Këllezi on the abuse of relative market power and Nikolaus Forgó on the liability of online platforms. At the closing session of this congress on the Unified Patent Court (UPC), among others we welcomed Klaus Grabinski as President of the Court of Appeal in Luxembourg. The working part was concluded with the General Assembly of the LIDC - International League of Competition Law.
The highlight of the evening program was the gala dinner on Saturday evening at the Vienna Concert Hall, where all guests enjoyed a delicious meal in the festively decorated Schubert Hall before dancing euphorically until midnight as can be seen in the photos.
To quote a song by our live band Tanzcafe there: Mamma Mia, what a LIDC Congress 2025 in Vienna! We as the Austrian organising team worked so hard to make all this possible, and from a professional and dancing point of view, these days from 9 to 12 October were the best time of our lives thanks to all the wonderful guests!

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