Manufacturing and commercial companies and enterprises - inventors and private researchers - consultancies - laboratories - private and state-owned research institutes and other organizations - patent brokers and promoters of innovations, who own inventions or new products which are covered by patents or by models of utility, and which have not previously been shown at the Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva.

Associations and similar bodies - service and financial organizations - publishers - regional, national and international organizations - may also appear as exhibitors to present their activities, services and programmes .