Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Intellectual Property Owners Association |
| Acronym: |
IPO
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| Legal status: |
Non-Profit
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| Website address: |
http://www.ipo.org
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Trade, business & professional associations |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Herbert Wamsley
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| Position: |
Executive Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Herbert Wamsley
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| Position: |
Executive Director |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
1501 M Street NW, Suite 1150
Washington, DC 20005
UNITED STATES
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| Telephone number: |
(+202) 5074500 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), established in 1972, is a trade association for owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets. IPO is the only association in the U.S. that serves all intellectual property owners in all industries and all fields of technology.
The association advocates effective and affordable IP ownership rights and provides a wide array of services to members. It concentrates on: supporting member interests relating to legislative and international issues; analyzing current IP issues; providing information and educational services; and disseminating information to the general public on the importance of intellectual property rights.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
30
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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IPO advocates effective protection for patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, and also urges laws that provide reasonable certainty to avoid undue litigation.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2012
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12/2012
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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< 50000
€
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Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
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Procurement:
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0 €
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Grants:
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0 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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