Committees
AIPPI has 25 Standing Committees, 6 Statutory Committees, 3 Initiative Committees, and each year 4 Study Committees. Details can be found below and in the Terms of Reference of each Committee.
Standing Committees
- ADR – Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Amicus
- Biotechnology
- Client Attorney Privilege
- Copyright
- Designs
- Development and IP
- Enforcement
- Free Trade Agreements
- Geographical Indications
- Information Technology and Internet
- IP and Sustainability
- IP and GRTK
- IP Office Practice and Procedures
- Patent Cooperation Treaty – PCT
- Patents
- Pharma
- Piracy and Counterfeiting
- Plant Varieties
- Standards and Patents
- Trade Secrets
- Trade Marks
- TRIPS
- Unitary Patent / Unified Patent Court
Statutory Committees
- Communications Committee
- Finance Committee
- Membership Committee
- Nominating Committee
- Programme Committee
- Venue Selection Committee
Study Committees (2025)
- Patents: Compulsory licensing
- Trade Marks: Exhaustion of trade mark rights
- AI & copyright
- General: Preliminary Injunctions – Requirements for compensating damage suffered by Defendant