Who we are

Brigitte Lindner has worked in the copyright field for over 30 years. Following studies in law and musicology, Brigitte gathered experience in private practice in France, Germany and the UK as well as in her former role as Legal Adviser to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in London. She practises as a member of the Bar of Berlin/Germany and a barrister of England & Wales in association with Serle Court Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn, London, specialising in international, European and comparative copyright law with a particular focus on the implications of human rights in the cultural sector.

She also takes a keen interest in alternative models of dispute resolution, particularly in a cross-border context. A frequent speaker at conferences and seminars, Brigitte also lectures on the Postgraduate Diploma Course/Masters in UK, EU and US Copyright Law at King’s College, London. She has published widely on copyright and related topics and is Co-Editor of ‘Copyright in the Information Society: A Guide to National Implementation of the European Directive’ published in 2nd edition by Edward Elgar. Brigitte is Vice-Chair of the British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association (BLACA), the British group of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI).

Brigitte’s musical interests are in opera and chamber music. As a singer and instrumentalist (cello and piano), she has participated in a variety of opera productions and chamber music groups. Brigitte also conducts research at the crossroads of law and music and has published legal assessments of Felix Mendelssohn’s dealings with his publishers and of the ‘Doktor Faustus’ controversy between Arnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann.

Timothy Trainer’s intellectual property (IP) career includes government and private sector experience. In government, he was one of the original U.S. Customs Service IP Branch attorneys in the late 1980s. At Customs, he trained Customs field officers, drafted infringement rulings, directives, and regulations. He supported the U.S. Trade Representative’s office in bilateral Customs IP consultations. At the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), he was the point person on IP enforcement issues, including bilateral issues with China, prepared and delivered IP training programs, participated in bilateral trade consultations and represented the USPTO at the World Intellectual Property Organization.

In the private sector, Mr. Trainer was an associate at a Washington, D.C., law firm and president of the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC; 1999 to 2005). While at the IACC, he co-chaired the UN’s Economic Commission for Europe’s IP Working Group and was a member of INTERPOL’s IP Crime Action Group steering committee. He was involved in numerous training programs in foreign countries and pursued domestic legislation.

From 2005 to 2020, he provided IP legal services to clients in trademark licensing, IP enforcement, and legislation. He provided IP support on various foreign projects with training of customs, police and prosecutors. From 2007 to 2020, Mr. Trainer’s Galaxy Systems, Inc.,

focused on interactive online IP awareness programs and licensed his online IP awareness tool for use by the USPTO and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration. The State Department invited Mr. Trainer to participate in its speaker program to address IP issues in Belize, Brunei, Chile, Peru, Philippines, and Vietnam.

Mr. Trainer co-authored the book Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights from 2006-2020. The book was updated and published annually for 15 years. He was an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law from 2005-2012. He is a contributor to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law due to be published in 2025.

As a member of the Industry-Trade Advisory Committee (ITAC), Mr. Trainer was cleared as a private sector IP advisor to the U.S. Department of Commerce and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative from 2000 to 2020. He chaired the IP ITAC from 2014-2018.

Carlo Scollo Lavizzari, a lawyer qualified in Switzerland, South Africa, England & Wales, specialises in intellectual property protection. He is a strategist and problem solver in negotiations, conflict resolution and policy. Depending on client need, Carlo brings together proven specialists from a range of areas all across the world.

Carlo is fluent in four languages: German, English, French and Italian; he has very good comprehension of written and spoken Spanish, as well as good comprehension of written Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch and Portuguese. Carlo has basic communication skills in Mandarin (completed HSK level 3, studying since mid-2017).

Carlo advises clients mainly in the following sectors: publishing, film, music, software, civil engineering, life sciences, plants & seeds, bio-informatics, pharmaceutical, electro- engineering, environmental solutions, bio-diversity, recycling, energy-transportation, network economy, valuation of IP for tax and structured finance. Carlo regularly contributes to books and journals on intellectual property and licensing and participates in relevant fora and conferences. Carlo is a founder member of ADALPI and served as Vice-Chair from 2010 until 2023 when he was elected as the association’s new Treasurer.

Roger Chevallaz, Rechtsanwalt, was a member of the Bar of Berne/Switzerland and practised as Registered Swiss Lawyer in association with advokatur56 in Berne. He retired from the Bar in 2023.

After studies in law in Berne/Switzerland and following his call to the Bernese Bar in 1984, he started his legal career with a small firm of Swiss Lawyers in Berne, focusing on associations and political interest groups. From 1988 to 1998 he was Manager and Legal Adviser to different professional associations within the Swiss film industry and from 1993 to 1998 President of the umbrella association of the Swiss Cinema and Film Distribution Companies, ProCinema. From 1995 to 2007 he served on the Federal Film Committee and as an expert for the revision of the Federal film law. Since 2003, he has been a Board member of the Swiss Anti-Piracy Federation SAFE. He is a founder member of ADALPI and served as the association’s Treasurer from 2010 until 2023.

María Fernanda Mendoza is a specialist in copyright. She managed the Centro Mexicano de Protección y Fomento de los Derechos de Autor (CEMPRO), the Mexican RRO, for 10 years and contributed to the creation of collective management entities in Panama and Costa Rica. In the academic field, she has more than 20 years of teaching experience, both in Mexico and abroad. She collaborated in the Spanish edition of Lynette Owen’s Comprar y Vender Derechos (Buying and Selling Rights), published by Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE). She is currently a consultant for the International Authors Forum (IAF) for Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Thomas T. Moga is a patent attorney and has over 30 years of experience in domestic and international IP portfolio development and enforcement. He is a partner with Dykema Gossett, a national US law firm with over 378 attorneys across 17 offices. 

As an IP portfolio developer, Mr. Moga’s experience includes the development of domestic and foreign patent portfolios, the acquisition of registrations for trademarks and copyrights, licensing, and policy development. In the arena of IP enforcement, Mr. Moga manages patent enforcement and anti-counterfeiting actions in Asia.

A pioneer in protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights in China, Mr. Moga has represented foreign companies in that country since the 1980s.  He was a Fulbright Scholar in China at Jilin University and acted as a foreign advisor to China’s patent office. Mr. Moga was a visiting foreign expert in law at Xiamen University, China, and worked as a foreign legal expert for a patent and trademark law office in Taipei.

He is a member of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (ITAC 13) and is past board member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Fulbright Association, and the Fulbright Academy.  Mr. Moga is the author of the multi-volume treatise “Patent Practice and Policy in the Pacific Rim” (Thomson Reuters) and
“China’s Utility Model Patent System: Innovation Driver or Deterrent” (published by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce).

Barbara Callender has worked as a consultant on projects in the political, economic, retail and social sectors in Central and Eastern Europe, the CIS and Central Asia. She has organised conferences, seminars and study tours for the private and public sectors. Topics covered included intellectual property rights, public-private partnerships for infrastructure, BOT programmes, land reform, real estate and the travel industry. Clients included the European Union, UK DFID, the USPTO, the UNECE, First Conferences Ltd, Vnesheconombank and Ethical Corporation.

From 1998 – 2006, she was Programme Manager to a UNECE Advisory Group on the Protection and Implementation of Intellectual Property Rights for Investment, working with governments and the private sector in 14 countries in the region. In 2009-2010 she was consultant to an EU Programme on Turkey’s participation in the European Knowledge Economy, linking SMEs and universities in the Netherlands, Romania and Turkey.

She has authored studies and reports on civil society, transparency, anti-corruption and clean energies. Publications include co-authoring an English-Russian Financial and Business Dictionary published by Price Waterhouse, and co-authoring and editing an Intellectual Capital Report of Turkey and Business Cases, published by the EU. She is a founder member of ADALPI, Board member of the European Movement, Chair of the European Movement in Wandsworth & Merton and founder member of damesnet, a feminist forum about culture, society and politics. She teaches yoga in her spare time.

Roger Chevallaz, Rechtsanwalt, was a member of the Bar of Berne/Switzerland and practised as Registered Swiss Lawyer in association with advokatur56 in Berne. He retired from the Bar in 2023.

After studies in law in Berne/Switzerland and following his call to the Bernese Bar in 1984, he started his legal career with a small firm of Swiss Lawyers in Berne, focusing on associations and political interest groups. From 1988 to 1998 he was Manager and Legal Adviser to different professional associations within the Swiss film industry and from 1993 to 1998 President of the umbrella association of the Swiss Cinema and Film Distribution Companies, ProCinema. From 1995 to 2007 he served on the Federal Film Committee and as an expert for the revision of the Federal film law. Since 2003, he has been a Board member of the Swiss Anti-Piracy Federation SAFE. He is a founder member of ADALPI and served as the association’s Treasurer from 2010 until 2023.

Dr. Gervais studied computer science and law at McGill University and the University of Montreal, where he also obtained LL.B. and LL.M. degrees, and received several awards. He also received a Diploma summa cum laude from the Institute of Advanced International Studies in Geneva and a doctorate magna cum laude from the University of Nantes (France). He was a visiting professor at several universities in Europe and North America and a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School. He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) and of the Bar of Quebec.

After law studies in Bonn and Freiburg (Germany) and Nancy (France) and the completion of the legal training programme, he started his professional career in 1973 as legal counsellor in the Federal Ministry of Justice in Bonn. From 1984, he was Head of various Divisions in the Ministry, including the Copyright Law Division from 1991 to 1997. In this capacity, he negotiated most of the EC Copyright Directives as German delegate in the EC Council Working Group which he also chaired during the German Presidency. He represented Germany in WIPO Expert Committees on copyright issues and as a delegate at the Diplomatic Conference of 1996, resulting in two copyright treaties. Between 1997 and 2005, he was a Director at WIPO in Geneva and headed various divisions, notably the Department for Legislative Assistance in the Development Cooperation Sector and the Division for Cooperation with Countries in transition to market economies. He also acted as Secretary of the WIPO Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR). Since his retirement in 2007 from the Federal Ministry of Justice in Berlin as Head of the International Commercial Law Division, he has worked as an intellectual property consultant based in Geneva and with a focus on European, international and comparative copyright law. As from 2018, he has ended this activity and moved to Vienna for retirement. He remains associated with ADALPI as an honorary member.