World’s Largest Trademark Gathering Gets Underway in Boston, Massachusetts
10.06.2019
With more than 11,100 brand owners, trademark practitioners, and other intellectual property (IP) professionals from 150+ countries around the world have gathered between May 18 and May 22 in Boston, Massachusetts for the 2019 Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Association (INTA), to learn, discuss and debate over important topics that impact brands, consumers, as well as local and global economies.
INTA’s 141st Annual Meeting, known also as the world’s most widely attended trademark event, marked a record registration this year. This comes to show that the event came at a time when the protection of intellectual property (IP) rights increases in importance, and when brand owners worldwide are considering both opportunities as well as challenges in the rapidly changing global IP environment.