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The Global Congress is convened by the World Customs Organization, Interpol and the World Intellectual Property Organization, with the support and partnership of the world business community.

  • INTERPOL and 2009 Country Host IMPI
  • World Customs Organization (WCO)
  • World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • International Chamber of Commerce / Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (ICC/BASCAP)
  • International Security Management Association (ISMA)
  • International Trademark Association (INTA)

INTERPOL Created in 1923, INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization. Its mission is to assist law enforcement agencies in its 187 member countries to combat all forms of transnational crime.

INTERPOL provides a high-tech infrastructure of technical and operational support to enable police forces around the world to meet the growing challenges of crime in the 21st century. The Organization focuses on six priority crime areas: corruption; drugs and organized crime; financial and high-tech crime; fugitives; public safety and terrorism; and trafficking in human beings. Since 2002 INTERPOL has placed significant emphasis on combating all types of counterfeiting and piracy.

The General Secretariat is located in Lyon, France, and operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. INTERPOL also has seven regional offices across the world and representative offices at the United Nations in New York and the European Union in Brussels. Each of the member countries maintains a National Central Bureau staffed by highly trained law enforcement officers.

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2009 Country Host

 

Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial (IMPI)

The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) is the administrative authority in charge of industrial property matters in Mexico, which was created by Presidential Decree on December 10, 1993. It is a decentralized body with legal personality and with its own assets, including budget.

The general objectives of IMPI are: to protect industrial property rights through patents, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, trade names, advertisement slogans, appellations of origin and trade secrets as well as to prevent acts that infringe intellectual property rights or that constitute unfair competition and to establish the corresponding sanctions and penalties to such acts. Likewise, another objective is to promote and encourage inventive activity that has industrial applications and technical improvements; and also the dissemination of technological knowledge within productive sectors.

The World Customs Organisation (WCO) is the only intergovernmental organization competent on Customs Issues. It is particularly noted for its work in areas covering the development of global Customs Standards, the simplification and harmonization of Customs procedures, the security and facilitation of the trade supply chain, trade facilitation and Sustainable Customs capacity building initiatives.

In 1952, the Convention formally establishing the Customs Cooperation Council (CCC) came into force. In 1994, after years of membership growth, the Council adopted the working name “World Customs Organization”, to more clearly reflect its transition to a truly global intergovernmental institution. It is now the voice of 170 Customs administrations on all continents at all stages of economic development. Today, WCO Members are responsible for processing more than 98% of all international trade.

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) protects the rights of creators and owners of intellectual property worldwide and helps ensure that inventors and authors are recognized for their ingenuity. Protection of intellectual property rights acts as a spur to human creativity, pushing forward the boundaries of science and technology and enriching the world of literature and the arts. By providing a stable environment for the marketing of intellectual property products, it helps oil the wheels of international trade and creates real wealth for nations.

With headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, WIPO is one of the 16 specializeded agencies of the United Nations system of organizations. It administers 23 international treaties dealing with different aspects of intellectual property protection. The Organization counts 182 nations as member states.

In order to provide broad-based support in the fight against counterfeiting and piracy, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has launched BASCAP – Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy. This operational platform will drive assertive action that integrates all business sectors and cuts across all national borders.

BASCAP will pursue the following objectives:

  • Connecting ongoing activities and coordinating business strategies and messages.
  • Producing information that has value to corporations and trade associations across sectors.
  • Amplifying business messages to governments and consumers.

Goals

  • Increase public and political awareness and understanding of counterfeiting and piracy activities and the associated economic and social harm.
  • Compel government action and the allocation of resources towards improved IPR enforcement.
  • Create a culture change where intellectual property is respected and protected.

The International Trademark Association (INTA) is a not-for-profit membership association of more than 4,600 trademark owners and professionals, from more than 180 countries, dedicated to the support and advancement of trademarks and related intellectual property as elements of fair and effective national and international commerce.

INTA was founded in 1878 by 17 merchants and manufacturers who saw a need for an organization "to protect and promote the rights of trademark owners, to secure useful legislation and to give aid and encouragement to all efforts for the advancement and observance of trademark rights." After 127 years, INTA continues its mission to represent the trademark community, shape public policy and advance professional knowledge and development.

INTA believes strongly that nations must work together and exchange information and ideas that will eliminate the threat posed by cheap, fake goods that illegally play on the good name of legitimate trademarks. With this belief INTA strongly advocates policies to advance protection against trademark counterfeiting and infringement. In doing so INTA analyzes and comments on treaties, laws, regulations, procedures and other enforcement mechanisms with respect to anticounterfeiting; engages and works with other anticounterfeiting associations and coalitions at all levels, and with governmental officials all over the world dealing with anticounterfeiting issues; and educates through government roundtables, forums and publications on anticounterfeiting.

International Security Management Association (ISMA), founded in 1983, is a premier international security association of senior security executives from major business organizations located worldwide. ISMA's mission is to provide and support an international forum of selected security executives whose combined expertise will be utilized in a synergistic manner in developing, organizing, assimilating, and sharing knowledge within security disciplines for the ultimate purpose of enhancing professional and business standards.