AIPPI adopts four important Resolutions at the 2025 Yokohama World Congress

• The Resolution on “Compulsory Licensing” (Q293) offers crucial guidance for how compulsory licensing in the field of patents should operate across different jurisdictions. The Resolution is an important step in enhancing the overall framework for compulsory licensing under the TRIPS Agreement to provide additional predictability, legal certainty, and harmonized procedural safeguards.
• The Resolution on “Exhaustion of Trade Mark Rights” (Q294) provides an important policy how exhaustion should operate across different jurisdictions. This Resolution is an important step in modernizing trade mark law and ensuring fair balance between brand protection, consumer rights, and evolving market realities.
• The resolution on “AI & Copyright” (Q295) proposes a comprehensive legal regime for the use of copyrighted works for the training of Artificial Intelligences. This Resolution is probably the most important work that has been written on the subject to date.
• The Resolution on “Preliminary Injunctions: Requirements for compensating damage suffered by Defendant” (Q296) sets out a comprehensive legal framework for compensating the losses suffered by an enjoined party when a preliminary injunction is wrongfully granted. It clarifies the applicant’s liability, quantifies the recoverable damages, and establishes guarantee requirements.

Under the leadership of Ralph Nack, Reporter General of AIPPI, and his team (RGT), these Resolutions brought together several hundred leading experts on the issue from more than 40 different countries. The RGT worked for a year on this subject, from drafting the Study Guidelines, to developing the National Reports, and then writing the Summary Reports. The Study Committees then prepared the First Draft Resolutions for the 2025 AIPPI World Congress, and held a one-day meeting of invigorating debate at the 2025 AIPPI World Congress, providing the Second Draft Resolutions. AIPPI discussed these Second Draft Resolutions in Plenary Sessions, and a finally approved the Resolutions after further debate in ExCo II.

This highly scientific approach of AIPPI and the most elaborated democratic voting process leading to the finally adopted Resolutions ensures that AIPPI’s Resolutions are most meaningful on the merits and simultaneously represent an impressive consensus among the membership of AIPP at large.

All AIPPI members, especially the leadership of the National and Regional Groups of AIPPI are most strongly encouraged to actively communicate the newly adopted Resolutions to the relevant stakeholders in their respective countries, emphasizing the diligence and legitimacy behind each of the Resolutions. AIPPI relies on this critical support of each AIPPI member that the Resolutions eventually become impactful.

Thank you to all the members of the AIPPI who contributed to these works, notably:

• Ralph Nack, Reporter General AIPPI, responsible of AIPPI’s Policy & Scientific Work
• Guillaume Henry, First Deputy Reporter General
• Johanna Flythström, Second Deputy Reporter General
• Rafael Atab, Klaudia Błach Morysińska, Mamta Jha, and Yanfeng Xiong, Assistants to the Reporter General
• The Leadership and Members of the Study Committees
• The Chairs of the Plenary Sessions