Intellectual Property Owners Association

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2010 to Dec 31, 2010

Signed

Sep 30, 2011

Return Version

2010v3.4

Gross Receipts

$4,344,627

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Membership services provided to membership increase public awareness and understanding concerning the social and economic values of intellectual property owners. They also encourage protection of private incentives which stimulate inventions, innovation, and technology development. The membership of intellectual property owners association includes more than 220 companies and 11,000 individuals involved in ipo through their companies or as inventors, authors, executives, university, law firms or individual attorney members.

Activity 3

Government affairs: promoting the interests of the owneripo advocates effective protection for patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, and also urges laws that provide reasonable certainty to avoid undue litigation. Ipo positions are communicated to congress, the u.s. Copyright office, the u.s. Patent and trademark office, the u.s. Trade representative and other agencies.during the 112th congress, ipo's primary focus is on patent reform legislation. Ipo members file about 30 percent of the patent applications that are filed at the uspto by u.s. Nationals. Ipo supports reforms that enhance the quality of patents granted, reduce the uncertainty and increasing costs of litigation and change the u.s. Patent system to a first-inventor-to-file system. Ipo will also continue throughout this session to support legislation to end the diversion of user fees away from the uspto towards unrelated government programs.

Filer

EIN

52-0948513