APPIMAF

6. APPIMAF is a non-profit organization using its income only in pursuance of its aims and objectives... The Association for the Protection of Industrial Property in the Middle East and North Africa (APPIMAF) was founded in Beirut, Lebanon in 1973. Since its foundation, APPIMAF has played and continues to play an important role in advocating industrial property rights protection in the Arab countries thereby contributing to the economic advancement as well as to the transfer and development of technology in these countries. APPIMAF has grown many folds and currently boasts a multi-disciplinary membership base comprised of attorneys, judges, university professors and experts in the field of industrial property.