Making intellectual property work for development

30 - 31 May 2006, Geneva

Program

Moderator

Peter Siemsen, Vice Chair, ICC Commission on Intellectual Property.

National innovation strategies
- Anthioumane N'diaye, Director General, Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle 
- Tegan Brink, Australian Permanent Mission to the WTO 

Helping SMEs/the informal sector gain access to the intellectual property system

- Anil Gupta, President SRISTI & Professor.Indian Institute of Management

- Teresa Mera, former Director of Trademarks at the Peruvian IP office

Access to educational and scientific information

- Brian Wafawarowa, Publisher, New Africa Books   

- Maurice Long, Publisher Coordinator, HINARI/AGORA/OARE

- Pascal Phlix, European Patent Office

Genetic resources: development of local enterprise, investment and know how/technology transfer; protection of traditional knowledge

- Bo Hammer Jensen, Director and Senior Patent Counsel, Novozymes 

Summary of presentations