Scott Frank, our GLIPA President, started working on Intellectual property (IP) while he was a student at Georgia State University. At that time, he saw the potential of collaborating with other classmates. He started the Georgia State Intellectual Property Advisory Board, which met with students, administration, faculty, and alums to work out how to make the university a top IP school. They created fundraising programs, mentored students, provided lectures, and organized corporate IP visits.

The board of the Alumni Association, led by Frank, then began to work with the Georgia Institute of Technology, which did not have a law school but a great engineering school.

The organization thus became much more prominent and influential (approximately 50 IP programs for students and the community over 15 years). Frank and his colleagues planned to take their project to the next level by establishing the Georgia Intellectual Property Alliance (GIPA) in 2018 to strengthen the importance of IP to the knowledge economy and help drive changes in IP practice.

After the success of the ecosystem collaboration created with GIPA, Frank decided to pursue a larger dream and created the United States Intellectual Property Alliance (USIPA) in 2020 as an organization geared towards uniting IP groups, creators, and owners to drive IP awareness and education, enable ecosystem collaboration, facilitate diversity and inclusion and coordinating the efforts of other alliances formed following the successful example of GIPA.

But the vision was to take IP to everyone in the world, so in early 2022, Frank, with the support of colleagues from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), decided to take the project to a global level and joined forces to create the Global Intellectual Property Alliance (GLIPA). The alliance was launched in October 2022 following the success of its predecessors and currently counts more than 250 active members from over 60 countries, representing key actors from the public and private sectors of the world’s innovation ecosystem.

Yes. We signed a Memorandum of Understanding in October 2022, whose main objectives are:

1. To collaborate in mutually supportive activities and programs that advance the global understanding and use of intellectual property (IP) to improve people's lives everywhere.

2. Jointly organize activities that advance the global understanding and use of intellectual property (IP), through educational training programs such as seminars, events, and sessions with IP experts.

3. Share information on global and regional opportunities and news that could further the initiatives and goals of both organizations.

4. Disseminate educational IP materials to the public.

We are the only organization on a worldwide basis working collaboratively with the full spectrum of public and private actors of the innovative ecosystem (We’re not just IP professionals).

• We knit together the fabric of IP organizations we have across the globe and their incredible diversity of them, in order to increase the level of IP information flow and coordination at appropriate local and regional levels.

• Global IP Alliance is working through regional alliances that is driving efforts on the ground in participant countries.

• We are not a trade group, and our only goal is to be the voice of the citizens in the IP ecosystem. We do not advocate policy issues on behalf of any specific economic sector

• Belonging to the alliance is free and there is no charge to access our online website and resources.

We believe that every citizen in the world should know about the value of IP, and how we

can contribute to making this world a more sustainable one and improve ’people's lives,

either by protecting their ideas or by incentivizing innovation. We, therefore, believe that

membership in the alliance should be open and anyone can join. People are invited to

Contact us at: https://www.glipa.org/contact

The Global IP Alliance believes that every citizen of the world should be aware of IP so membership in the Alliance is free for everyone. We have 2 types of memberships.

a. Regular membership, open to anyone around the world.

b. Global IP Alliance Committee & Board membership, for those who are committed to volunteering their time and giving back to the community. This membership is by invitation only and based on a recommendation of an existing member of the committee.

The Global Intellectual Property Alliance (GLIPA) is a non-profit US organization established under the Georgia Nonprofit Corporation Code (Georgia is a State in the United States).

Education:
GLIPA works to increase society’s understanding of what IP is, why it is important, and how we can use it to transform ideas into realities that improve people’s lives. We work 4 with educators to integrate results-oriented IP training and skills development into the K12, university, and other education worldwide.

IP Ecosystems:

GLIPA brings together on a worldwide basis, stakeholders committed to a vibrant IP ecosystem, economic prosperity, and social well-being. These stakeholders bring diverse perspectives and engage in collaborative endeavors to improve people’s well-being and quality of life.

GLIPA believes passionately in intellectual property. It constantly re-imagines ways to enhance IP-based innovative ecosystems.

Intellectual Property Access and Engagement:

GLIPA works to bring Intellectual Property (IP) to the hands of all. We believe in the power of IP as a tool to ensure all people and ideas around the globe have an opportunity for success.

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