Intellectual Property Owners Association

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Sep 12, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$5,743,710

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 210 companies and 12,600 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; this legislation was signed into law in september 2011. 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