Editorial

Enrique Díaz President of ASIPI

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lLaunching a magazine is always a human and financial challenge, but it is also an intellectual adventure. A challenge, because we want to interest and satisfy the needs of a multicultural and demanding membership with the most varied specialties and profiles, and adventure, because analyzing the changes of the contemporary world and explaining them clearly and concisely can be risky. Before your eyes you have the first edition of a new publication that seeks to keep ASIPI’s membership informed on cutting-edge intellectual property issues, as well as events, new associates, activities of our Committees, Special Commissions and Programs, recommendations from our clubs and much more. The main goal of the Executive Committee 2021-2023 is for ASIPI to become an economic engine that benefits associates and their respective firms. We want to generate businesses that benefit everyone. For example, if national authorities are supported to create databases that publish patent applications where inventors request resources, then many investors, business incubators, joint ventures or crowdfunding entities will be able to sponsor the creations that are of interest to them, and we can intervene in the legal and value management of the business. In fact, we have proposed to work with government offices to promote the monetization of IP assets. We want government entities to understand that it is not just a matter of approaching our area of practice from a statistical approach -number of trademarks and patents obtained-, but of monitoring the business, -knowing which and how many of these figures can generate resources for the owners or inventors.

We are interested in advancing joint projects with sister international organizations such as AIPPI, AIPLA, APAA, ECTA, FICPI, INTA and forging alliances with multilateral banks and business incubators to carry out projects that revolve around IP management.

The idea behind these plans is to be more pragmatic, to financially capitalize on our IP knowledge, and to learn how to do business that benefits us all.

For all of this to work we need to know each other, be united and what better way to achieve that than to have a free publication that allows us all, under equal conditions, to be informed of what is happening in our beloved association and in the world of intellectual property.

I invite you to read and enjoy this first edition of our magazine!

ASIPI on the move!

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