LIDC Congress 2025 Vienna Summary15.01.2026
In a 20-page magazine, we provide detailed summaries of the entire scientific program of this international conference organized by our Austrian group within the LIDC. More than 230 IP & Competition lawyers from all over the world engaged in intensive discussions during the day and danced the night away in Vienna.
On Friday, the 10th of October 2025, 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 Austrian Federal Competition Authority, gave a keynote speech on recent developments in Austria and Europe, followed by Creighton Macy as 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 insights into current antitrust rulings.
After this opening session, eight panel discussions with 40 speakers were held under the motto “Where Competition, IP and Unfair Competition meet!”, including from the European Commission, the USA, Brazil and Asia. Detailed summaries of the whole scientific program can be found in the document available here.
On Saturday, the 11th of October 2025, the conference continued with a comprehensive treatment of the two international reports on the annual Questions A and B prepared by the Swiss attorney at law Pranvera Këllezi on the abuse of relative market power and the Austrian Professor 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.
Finally, we are pleased to inform that the next LIDC Congress will be held in Bucharest, Romania, from 15 to 18th October 2026.
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