The story of the Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI) began in 1964, when a group of passionate professionals, primarily from Latin America, gathered in Mexico. Their vision was to establish a platform for updating, enhancing, and sharing knowledge related to industrial property.
Over time, this initial gathering evolved into a vibrant community, as hundreds of like-minded professionals from around the world joined in. Together, they contributed their expertise and experience to build an association that has thrived for over five decades, becoming a global leader in the protection of intellectual rights for creators of artistic works and innovators in science, ultimately benefiting humanity.
The preliminary meetings, the inaugural meeting, the founding members and all our history can be read in the book and in the video: “ASIPI: 50 years of history”.
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The preliminary meetings, the inaugural meeting, the founding members and all our history can be read in the book: “ A Journey Through Time ”
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1st Congress of ASIPI - 1964, Mexico
ASIPI has had presence and international recognition as a representative intellectual property organization in the Americas
Recent Decades
At the end of the 80s major changes and transformations in intellectual property matters were conceived not only in the different countries but globally as a result of multilateral commercial negotiations, like the Uruguay Round of the GATT and the TRIPS Agreement, which is a fundamental milestone in the evolution of the world intellectual property regime.
In the American continent, Mexico leads these changes particularly due to the commercial agreement with the United States and Canada (NAFTA) and then there are other countries like Argentina, Chile and Brazil. On the other hand, the Andean countries, in the frame of the Andean Community of Nations, issued Decisions 344, 345, 351 and 486 which contain the common regime for the protection of intellectual property.
An Organizing Committee of the Inter-American Association for Intellectual Property – ASIPI, following an initiative of American scholars convened an international meeting of 25 experts coming from 17 countries which gathered in Acapulco on April 11, 1964 and then, in the Convention which was held in Mexico City on April 14th and 15th of the same year, ASIPI was founded.
ASIPI es una de las organizaciones regionales más importantes en materia de propiedad intelectual en el continente americano y uno de los organismos pioneros a nivel mundial en el ámbito de lo regional y desde su creación, ASIPI tiene presencia y reconocimiento internacional como organismo representativo de la propiedad intelectual en las Américas.
Since its creation until today, ASIPI, through the actions of its different Executive Committees, Work Committees and meetings held throughout the region, has been involved in the positive and accelerated evolution that intellectual property has had worldwide, answering effectively and responsibly to the emerging challenges and perspectives and playing a prominent role as platform for the economic, social and legal development of our countries.
ASIPI, as an Inter-American regional organism, is an observing member of the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO and actively participates in other international forums like the World Trade Organization - WTO and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers- ICANN.