Contributory Infringement Of Intellectual Property Rights

Originally Published 26^th October 2008

The delegates of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property AIPPI approved, on 10 Sep 2008, during the 41st World IP Congress held in Boston, a Resolution recommending that all jurisdictions adopt rules on contributory infringement harmonizing the basic principles thereof.

The Working Committee Q204 resumed AIPPI's previous study which, in 1997, on the ExCo/Vienna, within the scope of Q134A, had already discussed some aspects of this subject in regard to patents. It was concluded in the Q204 that the basic principles for establishing contributory infringement should generally be the same for all types of IPRs (Intellectual Property rights), while the particular nature of each type of IPR justifies certain differences in the detailed conditions for establishing contributory infringement.