International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property

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The International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property or AIPPI, an acronym for Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle in French, is a non-profit international organisation (NGO) whose members are intellectual property (IP) professionals, academics, owners of intellectual property and others interested in the subject. AIPPI was established in 1897 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland. It played an active role in the work which led to the successive revisions of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 1883. It continues to play a major role in harmonising IP laws around the world.

AIPPI operates by conducting studies of existing national laws and proposing measures to achieve harmonisation of these laws on an international basis after consultation and input from its members Groups around the world. It is currently involved in a number of topics to be discussed at its 41st Congress to be held in Boston, USA, in September 2008 and has recently^[when?] jointly, with WIPO organised a conference on issues relating to privileged communications between clients and their intellectual property advisors.^{[citation needed]}

The current President is Ron Myrick, from the USA and the Vice-President is Thierry Molét-Vieville, from France. The current Reporter General is Jochen Bühling, from Germany and the current Secretary General is Michael Brunner, from United Kingdom. The current Treasurer General is Eiji Katayama, from Japan. ^[1]