AIPPI, the association for tomorrow’s key assets

The inventor protected anywhere and everywhere in the same way. What a beautiful dream ! At the same time, people brought together through their common interest, will feel drawn to one another, we will thus work towards a creation of peace, of concord, we will work for the benefit of humanity » (Eugène Pouillet, founding member of AIPPI).

The idea of creating AIPPI, an international non-governmental organisation for the protection of intellectual property, is in line with the spirit of the universalist and philanthropic movement of the 1890’s and subsequently became a reality in 1897, at the Brussels World’s Fair. Gathering together industrialists, specialised legal practitioners and those who were called engineers-counsels, in a place of exchange and advancement of ideas, AIPPI experienced rapid success to become the largest international association in the world dedicated to the protection of intellectual property.

Today, with around 9000 members, in more than 100 countries, AIPPI continues its work of reflection and harmonisation through the adoption of resolutions, and is thus an intellectual reference of the highest order and a source of inspiration for legislators.