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International Trademark Association

Business group · Business federations & chambers · HQ: United States · Transparency Register entry

As of 7 November 2026, International Trademark Association appears in 13 declared MEP meetings (9 different MEPs), most often with European People's Party.

13
declared meetings
with current MEPs
9
MEPs met
€500k/yr
declared lobbying spend
self-reported to the register
4.2
lobbyists
full time equivalent

In their own words

“The International Trademark Association (INTA) is a global association of brand owners and professionals dedicated to supporting trademarks and related intellectual property (IP) to foster consumer trust, economic growth, and innovation. INTA’s members are more than 6,500 organizations from 185 countries.”

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“The Association's member organizations represent some 34,350 trademark professionals and include brand owners from major corporations as well as small- and medium-sized enterprises, law firms and nonprofits. There are also government agency members as well as individual professor and student members.”

Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.

Who they meet, and when

Which groups they meet

Share of this organisation's 13 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.

European People's Party754%
Renew Europe538%
Socialists & Democrats18%

Meetings by year

Declared meetings per calendar year, 2021–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (8 in 2025). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.

2021
1
2022
0
2023
0
2024
2
2025
8
2026
2

Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.

The MEPs they meet most

Ilhan Kyuchyuk
3 meetings · Renew
Dirk Gotink
3 meetings · EPP
Arba Kokalari
1 meeting · EPP
Bart Groothuis
1 meeting · Renew
Laura Ballarín Cereza
1 meeting · S&D

The 13 most recent declared meetings

DateMEPSubject
13 Oct 2026Ilhan Kyuchyuk20th Anniversary of INTA Brussels
15 Apr 2026Ilhan Kyuchyukexchange of views on key legal and policy issues where IP and EU legal frameworks intersect
19 Jun 2025Dirk GotinkIntellectual property rights
6 May 2025Axel VossCopyright and generative AI
24 Apr 2025Dimitris TsiodrasCombatting counterfeiting and enhancing the enforcement of intellectual property rights
24 Apr 2025Dóra DávidChallenges of IP in the digital/online space and its role in European Competitiveness
23 Apr 2025Dirk GotinkEU customs legislation, counterfeit goods
21 Mar 2025Laura Ballarín CerezaAfrica, Deveopment, Intellectual Property
5 Feb 2025Dirk GotinkEU customs legislation, e-commerce
29 Jan 2025Jeannette BaljeuCustoms Union
2 Dec 2024Ilhan KyuchyukSignificance of IP rights
17 Oct 2024Arba KokalariIntellectual property
26 Mar 2021Bart Groothuismeeting on NIS report

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