AIPPI Honours

Members who have made particularly noteworthy contributions to AIPPI or to its objectives may receive one of three special awards. They can be appointed a President or Member of Honour, or granted an AIPPI Award of Merit.

Presidents of Honour

Presidents of Honour are Members of Honour who are exceptionally distinguished in the field of intellectual property and have given exceptional service to AIPPI.

Deceased Members

Rudolf Blum (Switzerland)
d. December 12, 2009

Martin J. Lutz (Switzerland)
d. December 29, 2013

Paul Mathély (France)
d. October 15, 2001

Geoffroy Gaultier (France)
d. June 2, 2020

Members of Honour

Members of Honour are members who have displayed outstanding merit in promoting the objects of the association.

2023

Anne Marie VERSCHUUR (The Netherlands)

Peter PAWLOY (Austria)

Luiz Henrique DO AMARAL (Brazil)

Martin MICHAUS (Mexico)

2022

Marek LAZEWSKI (Poland)

Fernand DE VISSCHER (Belgium)

2021

Jonathan OSHA (United States of America)

Renata RIGHETTI PELOSI (Italy)

2020

Olga SIRAKOVA (Bulgaria)

2019

Hao MA (China)

Sarah MATHESON (Australia)

Gérard MYON (France)

2018

Laurent THIBON (France)

2017

Felipe CLARO (Chile)

2015

John BOCHNOVIC (Canada)

Thierry CALAME (Switzerland)

Stephan FREISCHEM (Germany)

2012

Ella CHEONG (China Hong Kong)

Yoshio KUMAKURA (Japan)

2011

Jochen BÜHLING (Germany)

Dariusz SZLEPER (France)

2010

Jorge OTAMENDI (Argentina)

2008

Bertrand F. MICHELI (Switzerland)

2007

Ch.E.F.M. GIELEN (The Netherlands)

2006

Luis-Alfonso DURÁN (Spain)

Örjan GRUNDÉN (Sweden)

Ian KARET (United Kingdom)

Vincenzo M. PEDRAZZINI (Switzerland)

Joseph STRAUS (Germany)

2002

Richard ABNETT (United Kingdom)

François CURCHOD (Switzerland)

Hans Peter KUNZ-HALLSTEIN (Germany)

2001

Michael DOWLING (Australia)

Desmond RYAN (Australia)

1998

Luiz LEONARDOS (Brazil)

Tivadar PALÁGYI (Hungary)

1992

Thierry MOLLET-VIÉVILLE (France)

Teartse SCHAPER (The Netherlands)

1985

Peter Dirk SIEMSEN (Brazil)


Past Members

Edward Armitage, United Kingdom (1986)

Michael J. Brunner, United Kingdom (2011)

Esmé Desiré du Plessis, South Africa ( 2010)

Thomas M. Q.C. Gault, New Zealand (1990)

H. Dieter Hoinkes, USA (1989)

Gerd F. Kunze, Switzerland (1997)

Jacques Léger Q.C., Canada (2008)

Evgeni Pitrovanov, Russia (1984)

Christopher P. Tootal, United Kingdom (2001)

Donald Vincent, United Kingdom (1986)

Helmut Sonn, Austria (1998)

Gert Egon Dannemann, Brazil (2000)

Ernst M. Jucker, Switzerland (2021)

David J. Meisser, Switzerland (2021)

Deceased Members

Neville J. Anderson, Australia (2015)

Heinz Bardehle, Germany (2015)

Alfred E. Briner, Switzerland (2014)

George R. Clark, USA (2014)

Michael Cohn, Israel (2011)

Marcelino Curell Suñol, Spain (2013)

Gabriel Frayne, France (2000)

Robert Harle, France (2002)

Mario G.E. Luzzati, Italy (2003)

Mercedes Luzzati, Italy (2003)

Walter Oppenhoff, Germany (2001)

Beverly W. Pattishall, USA (2002)

Eckehart Freiherr von Pechmann, Germany (2017)

Andrzej Ponikiewski, Poland (2018)

George J. Primak, Canada (2019)

Hoda A. Serageldine, Egypt (2014)

Jorge Cruz, Portugal (2019)

Joan Clark Q. C., Canada (2020)

Alberto de Elzaburu, Spain (2020)

Yoon Bae Kim, Republic of Korea (2020)

Award of Merit Holders

The AIPPI Award of Merit is granted to members who have distinguished themselves in an outstanding way:

  1. in connection with the international activities of AIPPI, and in particular as Officers of AIPPI Committees or as Representatives of AIPPI
  2. in a long-term leadership function in a National or Regional Group of AIPPI as organizers of international events
  3. other unique contributions to the fulfilment of the aims of the Association

In exceptional cases, non-members may be honoured by an Award of Merit for bringing extraordinary benefit to the Association.

Christopher CARANI (United States of America)
Isabelle CHABOT (Canada)
Calum SMYTH (United Kingdom)
Richard ABNETT (United Kingdom)
Karen ABRAHAM (Malaysia)
Pravin ANAND (India)
Raffaella ARISTA (Italy)
Tal BAND (Israel)
Gunnar BAUMGÄRTEL (Germany)
Konrad BECKER (Switzerland)
Alberto BERCOVITZ (Spain)
John BOCHNOVIC (Canada)
Guillermo CAREY (Chile)
Ella CHEONG (China Hong Kong)
Nicola DAGG (United Kingdom)
Ulf DAHLGREN (Sweden)
Bo DAVIDSSON (Sweden)
Fernand DE VISSCHER (Belgium)
Luis-Alfonso DURÁN (Spain)
Sergio M. ELLMANN (Argentina)
Carlo Maria FAGGIONI (Italy)
Alain GALLOCHAT (France)
István GÖDÖLLE (Hungary)
Damon HENSHAW (Australia)
David W. HILL (United States of America)
Ivan T. HJERTMAN (Sweden)
Yusuke INUI (Japan)
Takashi ISHIDA (Japan)
Eiji KATAYAMA (Japan)
Seong-ki KIM (Republic of Korea)
Nicolai LINDGREEN (Denmark)
Donald MACODRUM (Canada)
Michael MAIKOWSKI (Germany)
Marja-Leena MANSALA (Finland)
David J. MEISSER (Switzerland)
Philip MENDES DA COSTA (Canada)
Peter MES (Germany)
Martin MICHAUS (Mexico)
Bertrand F. MICHELI (Switzerland)
Robert MILLER (Australia)
Denis MONEGIER DU SORBIER (France)
Bruce E. MORGAN (Canada)
Shoichi OKUYAMA (Japan)
Jochen PAGENBERG (Germany)
Peter PAWLOY (Austria)
Giovanni PELLEGRINO (Italy)
Peter A. PESTALOZZI (Switzerland)
Regina QUEK (Singapore)
Renata RIGHETTI PELOSI (Italy)
Annika RYBERG (Sweden)
Suhail F. SABA (Lebanon)
Robert W. SACOFF (United States of America)
Markku SIMMELVUO (Finland)
Thomas F. SMEGAL JR. (United States of America)
Joseph STRAUS (Germany)
Thierry SUEUR (France)
Philip C. SWAIN (United States of America)
Luigi Carlo UBERTAZZI (Italy)
Lawrence T. WELCH (United States of America)
Hans-Heinrich WEY (Germany)
Peter WIDMER (Switzerland)
Kazuhiko YOSHIDA (Japan)

Past Members

Tim D. Burrell, South Africa (1997)

Marc Chomé, Belgium (1997)

Esmé Desiré du Plessis, South Africa (1997)

Carlo Fiammenghi, Italy (1997)

Florent Gevers, Belgium (1997)

David C. Harrison, United Kingdom (1998)

Keijo Heinonen, Finland (1997)

Jan E. Helgerud, Norway (2018)

Gunnar Karnell, Sweden (1997)

Elly A. Ladas, Greece (1997)

Endre Lontai, Hungary (1997)

G. Alexander Macklin, Canada (1997)

Shoji Matsui, Japan (1997)

David Merrylees, Brazil (1998)

Mogens Plesner, Denmark (1997)

Peter-Ulrik Plesner, Denmark (2017)

Jianxin Ren, China (1997)

Peter B. Shortt, Ireland (1997)

David H. Tatham, United Kingdom (1997)

Christopher P. Tootal, United Kingdom (1997)

J.S.W. Van Gennip, The Netherlands (1997)

Alexander Vida, Hungary (1997)

Hans-Heinrich Wey, Germany (1997)

Ulf Dahlgren, Sweden (2010)

Lawrence T. Welch, USA (2018)

Gert Egon Dannemann, Brazil (1997)

Deceased Members

Heinz Bardehle (Germany)
September 10, 2015

T.N. Daruwalla (India)
August 13, 2013

Donald A. Hill (Canada)

Leonard B. Mackey (USA)
April 3, 2002

Jeremiah D. McAuliffe (USA)
August 8, 2012

Ernesto O’Farrell (Argentina)
September 10, 2012

Hoda A. Serageldine (Egypt)
March 18, 2014

Jorge Cruz (Portugal)
May 28, 2019