Development and Intellectual Property
.png "internet") The role that intellectual property (IP) protection plays in development is at the heart of many current debates, including those over technology transfer, intellectual property and public health, access and benefit sharing in relation to genetic resources, and the availability of intellectual property protected information.
ICC's Task Force on Intellectual Property and Development is providing input into the current discussion on how WIPO and the intellectual property system should address development-related considerations. ICC's Task Force on Intellectual Property and Development is co-chaired by:
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Peter Dirk Siemsen
Senior Partner
Danneman, Siemsen, Bigler & Ipanema Moreira - Brazil |
Ivan Hjertman
European Patent Attorney
IP Interface AB - Sweden |
| Making IP Work for Development - Series of Panel Disscussions Organised by ICC |
To help negotiators better understand how the intellectual property system can be used in practice to stimulate development, ICC has organized a series of panel discussions in Geneva entitled "Making IP Work for Development". These meetings bring together diplomats from different regions with people who work with the IP system on the ground, particularly in developing countries.
Documents from each of the panels discussions in this series can be found below (please click to download):
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26 April 2007 |
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| 30-31 May 2006 |
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| 3 February 2006 |
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| 21 June 2005 |
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| ICC Statements and Interventions |
ICC has also issued written statements and made interventions at WIPO meetings (please click to download):
| 29 November 2007 |
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| 19 July 2005 |
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20-22 June 2005
(Second Session) |
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20-22 July 2005
(Third Session) |
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| 27 May 2005 |
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A Development Agenda for WIPO:
http://www.wipo.int/ip-development/en/agenda.html
World Bank: Intellectual Property and Development: Lessons from Recent Economic Research: http://www.worldbank.org/research/ IntellProp_temp.pdf | 
