AIPPI is the world's leading non-profit organisation with the purpose to improve and promote the protection of intellectual property at international and national level. Founded in 1897, AIPPI today has over 8,000 members worldwide from over 110 countries. With about 800 members, the German AIPPI group is the largest within the organisation. AIPPI’s members are lawyers, patent attorneys and representatives from all areas of intellectual property in corporations and private law firms around the world, as well as academics, judges, government officials and others associated with intellectual property.