> to promote understanding of the need for international protection of industrial and other intellectual property in the broadest sense (including protection of inventions, utility models, designs, topographies of microelectronic semiconductor products, plant varieties, marks, furthermore copyright, related statutory and non-statutory rights, as well as protection against unfair competition);

> to encourage further development of the protection of intellectual property;

> to study and compare existing laws and proposed new laws, and take steps to perfect and harmonize them;

> to work for the development, expansion and improvement of international conventions and agreements concerning the protection of industrial and other intellectual property.

AIPPI pursues its objectives by:

> establishing consensus positions on current and important intellectual property issues;

> communicating those positions to international and regional Governmental Organizations, such as WIPO, WTO, EPO, and to Governments;

> organizing congresses and other meetings; and,

> creating and distributing publications and other information relating to its activities.