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| Round Table in Dominican Republic
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The workshop on Management of Intellectual Property Assets in Small-and-Medium-Sized Companies in the Agro Industrial Sector and Handcrafts was organized, with the participation of ASIPI, by WIPO in the Dominican Republic on August 26th and 27th, 2007. Its main objective was to promote the use of distinctive signs in the entrepreneurial agricultural and handcraft sectors as a means of differentiation to achieve greater competitiveness both in the national and the international markets. Seventeen national and foreign lecturers took part in the event, among whom we wish to mention Mr. Marco Marzano and Ms. Betty Berendson, WIPO, Mr. Enrique Ramírez, Director of the Industrial Property National Office of the Dominican Republic, Mr. Justin Young and Ms. María del Pilar Troncoso, representatives of ASIPI, Mr. Alberto Monjarás and Ms. Patricia Gamboa, of the Mexican IMPI and the Peruvian INDECOPI, respectively, Ms. Ana Muñoz, of Handcrafts of Colombia, and representatives of the national business sector. The workshop met with great success due to the interest shown in the issues that were dealt with, namely, the advantages of adequately protecting industrial property assets. In addition, it was a starting point for handcraft representatives agro industrial representatives to organize themselves to defend each sector’s specific interests, of which the existing problems were raised.
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| Event in Cuba
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From September 17th to 20th, 2007, many specialized firms in Intellectual Property in Cuba hosted the event entitled LAW MULTILATERAL APPROACH in the city of La Habana. It aimed to promote and exchange common issues among IP professionals so as to foster the relationship between law firms around the world.
The Secretary of ASIPI, Juan Vanrell, travelled to La Habana to represent the association at such prestigious event.
The academic programme included many topics and with reference to Industrial Property the issues discussed were, among others, the Protection to New Technologies, the Madrid System and the Legal Framework of the Internet.
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| Round Table in Montevideo
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 On Thursday September 6th, 2007, a Round Table was held in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was entitled "Round Table with the National Agency of Industrial Property: current and future situation of the Agency - Perspective on New International Treaties and Agreements". The event was organized by ASIPI, INTA and AUDAPI (the Uruguayan Association of Industrial Property Agents).
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| ASIPI in Cartagena with other International Associations
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During the Work Sessions and Administrative Council of ASIPI in Cartagena de Indias, a working lunch was held to honour the representatives of other international associations who were present in Cartagena: (top from left) John Mings (ASIPI Vocal), Rafael Covarrubias (ASIPI Treasurer), José Barreda (Pres. International Com. of ASIPI), Ileana Martinelli (ASIPI Vocal), Sergio Amenábar (Former President of ASIPI), Juan Berton Moreno (Pres. Editorial Committee of ASIPI), Fernando Triana (Vice President of ASIPI), Mireia Curell (President of ECTA), Juan Vanrell (Secretary of ASIPI), Marino Porzio (Member of Honor of ASIPI), Edwin Molino (Secretary of Editorial Committee of ASIPI); (bottom from left) Laura Cruz (Coordinator of External Relations for L.A. of INTA), Jacqueline Leimer (INTA), Debra Beauregard (Franklin Pierce Law Center), Alberto Berton Moreno (Former President of ASIPI), Santiago O'Connor (President Programmes Committee of ASIPI), Karl Jorda (Franklin Pierce Law Center), Martín Michaus (President of ASIPI), James Pooley (President of AIPLA), Danny Huntington (President of FICPI), Pilar Troncoso (ASIPI Vocal), Phillip Swain (Vice President of US Group of AIPPI), Delia Lipszyc (President of IIDA) and Felipe Claro (Committee Coordinator of ASIPI).
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| ASIPI visits WIPO
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June 12th, 2007 - The Executive Committee of ASIPI, represented by its President Martín Michaus, Vice President Fernando Triana, Secretary Juan Vanrell, Treasurer Rafael Covarrubias, President of the International Committee José Barreda and Mr. Marino Porzio, visited the headquarters of WIPO in Geneva and met its authorities. The Director General of WIPO Mr Kamil Idris and Francis Gurry, Michael Keplinger, Ernesto Rubio, Carlotta Graffigna, Sherif Saadallah, Alejandro Roca and Michele Weil-Guthmann participated in the meetings.
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| Tribute to José Carlos Tinoco Soares
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During the event entitled LAW MULTILATERAL EVENT (La Habana, Cuba, from September 17th to 20th, 2007) a tribute to Mr. José Carlos Tinoco Soares was held at the Magna Aula of the University of La Habana, honoring his long and fruitful career. Mr. Tinoco Soares is a brilliant attorney and an active writer of many and valuable publications. He has belonged to the Executive Committee of ASIPI twice: once as a Secretary from 1981 to 1984 and now as the First Vice President (006 - 2009).
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| ASIPI visits John Marshall Law School
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A delegation of the Interamerican Association of Intellectual Property (ASIPI) recently met with representatives of John Marshall’s Center for Intellectual Property Law while in Chicago for the International Trademark Association (INTA) meeting. Dean John Corkery (center) and Professor Doris Long welcomed (from left) Justin R. Young (LL.M. ’02) (President of the Administration of Law Firms Committee), Martin Pittaluga Pereira (President of the Education Committee), Martin Michaus (President of ASIPI), Rafael Covarrubias (Treasurer of ASIPI) and Fernando Triana (Second Vice President of ASIPI).
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| ASIPI INTA in Sao Paulo
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 (from left to right) Rafael Covarrubias, Treasurer, Fernando Triana, Second Vice President, Sergio Amenábar, Presidente of Honour, Martín Michaus, President, Dee Ann Weldon-Wilson, President of INTA, Alberto Berton Moreno, Former President, and Juan Vanrell, Secretary, during the ASIPI INTA Conference held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in March 2007.
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| List of Attendees to the XIII Work Sessions in Cartagena
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Check list of attendees to the XIII Work Sessions and Administrative Council of ASIPI here
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