APRAM
APRAM is the abbreviation for Association des Praticiens du Droit des Marques et des Modèles or the Association of Practitioners of the Law and Trademarks and Designs. [1] It is a non-governmental organization established in the year 1978. APRAM is actively involved in informing its professionals from the industry, members and IP agents all the necessary and relevant Intellectual Property (IP) issues. It works towards promoting the interests of its members in front of the European institutions.[2] It is an international association comprising of experts from the Industrial and Intellectual Property.[1]
Primarily consisting of French members, APRAM also consists of many foreign members in the world. The association is in force since 30 years and has moved all of its operations to all French-speaking lawyers. It is a dynamic association, which mostly disseminates its information in the form of its meetings, its official interventions, its committees and through its international interventions.
It is composed of three families, which includes lawyers, corporate lawyers and Intellectual Property Attorneys, which give strength to the association, creates a transparency while addressing all the issues that are beneficial for its members.
History
APRAM was born mostly out of conjunction from the wishes of designs (patent attorneys, lawyers and industry) and professional trademarks. It was formed to be an interlocutor with organizations such as the World Intellectual Property, INPI and Commission of European Communities. It also looked after establishing fraternal relations with associations such as the French associations AFPPI, CNCPI and foreign such as the ITMA, INTA, BMM and ECTA.
1980-2000 In the year 1982, APRAM took an initiative and organized a meeting in Paris to bring together all the leaders and APRAM associations to advice industrialists, liberals and lawyers. There were then consistent meetings, which helped in ties of APRAM with other foreign associations as they discussed about the various issues concerning the professionals. In the year 1998, APRAM celebrated its 20th Anniversary in the Museum of Carnival Arts among its members and usual contacts.
2000-Present By the year 2000, APRAM was turning the Internet efficiently and profitably. In the year 2008, which marked the 30th anniversary of APRAM, it organized an evening in Cigale to put forward some of its best talent. APRAM is still working in organizing the comprehensive information of its members by acting as interlocutor and addressing the issues of its members by communicating them with concerned agencies. [3]
Administration
The Board of Directors of APRAM comprises of 21 members, who are divided equally among three groups: jurists Office of Industrial Property, lawyers and corporate lawyers. The term of these members lasts for three years and is renewable once. Out of these 21, seven members are a part of the Bureau. One important thing to note about APRAM is the outgoing President of the Bureau can participate in the meetings of the Bureau for two years even after the end of his tenure as President. [4]
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