OBJECTIVES

The objects of the Institute are: 

  1. To protect the interests of persons engaged in the profession of Patent or Trademark Agents – (hereinafter called “Patent Agents” for simplicity); 
  2. To protect the interests of all proprietors of intellectual or industrial property; 
  3. To improve, support, and protect the interest of patent agents, and to maintain the dignity of an honourable profession; 
  4. To give to the legislature, public bodies and others, facilities for ascertaining the views of persons engaged in the profession as regards matters directly or indirectly affecting such profession, and to confer with any public bodies, companies, clubs or others with reference thereto; 
  5. To originate and promote improvements in the laws affecting the profession and intellectual or industrial property, and to support or oppose alterations therein, and to effect improvements in administration and for the purposes aforesaid to petition Parliament or the Minister responsible and to take such other steps and proceedings as may be deemed expedient to achieve these objectives; 
  6. To afford advice to and diffuse information on, all matters affecting patent agents, and to print, publish, issue, circulate, and give access to such papers and periodicals, books and other literacy undertakings as may seem conducive to the attainment of any of the objectives of the Institute;
  7. To improve and elevate the technical and general knowledge of persons engaged in the said profession; or in any employment in connection therewith and to promote just and honourable practice in the conduct of business and to suppress malpractice. 
  8. To consider and to discuss all questions affecting the said profession, and to procure the delivery of lectures on subjects of interest to persons engaged in such profession;
  9. To cultivate and obtain reciprocal relations with kindred Institutes in other countries; 
  10. To establish, form and maintain a library and a collection of models, designs and drawings, and other articles of interest in connection with the said profession; 
  11. To provide facilities for social intercourse between the Members of the Institute and their friends;
  12. To adopt such means of making known any of the objects of the institute as may seem expedient and in particular by advertising in the press, by publication of books and periodicals and by any other means whatever; 
  13. To undertake and to execute any trusts which may be conducive to the attainment of any of the objects of the institute and to appoint trustees for this object;
  14. To raise or borrow money on any terms or conditions on the security of debenture stock, debentures, mortgages of any charged upon or any of the property or assets of the Institute, present or future, or without any such security and to make, accept, endorse and execute promissory notes, bills of exchange and other negotiable instrument, and to issue and grant receipts and acknowledgments of monies received or held on deposit or otherwise;
  15. To apply the monies of the Institute in any way in or towards the establishment, maintenance, benefit or extension of any association, profession and whether or not in common with other classes of persons, and to contribute to any fund raising or local or public subscription for any purpose whatsoever or to any charitable object or objective.