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WIPO Technical Assistance Capacity Building
Programs and Activities in Asia and the
Pacific Technical Assistance and Capacity
Building Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
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Technical Assistance Capacity Building Programs
and Activities
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WIPOs Mandate for Providing Legal and Technical
Assistance
Article 4 of WIPO Convention provides that WIPO
shall, inter alia, offer its cooperation to
States requesting legal-technical assistance in
the field of intellectual property.
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Guiding Principles

• Member driven request driven
• Responsive to the changing environment,
  circumstances, sensitivities and priorities
• Consideration of the evolution of the IP system,
  new emerging issues and the broad objectives of
  development
• Widest coverage
• Use of local and regional expertise
• Constant evaluation

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Approach and Tools of Delivery

• Approach country-specific, need-oriented,
  demand-driven, integrated and holistic, and
  cost- effective
• Tools of delivery nationally focused action
  plans (NFAPs), focused seminars, interactive
  workshops, training programs, fellowships,
  expert/advisory missions, projects, country
  studies, etc.
• Targeted groups IP administrators, policy
  makers, enforcement officials, judges, as well
  as user community such as inventors, creators,
  SMEs, academia and RD institutions, etc.

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Focus Areas

• Development of national IP policies and
  strategies

• Enhanced awareness IP and its contribution to
  development

• Updated IP legislation in support of development
  goals

• More efficient IP infrastructure in developing
  countries and LDCs

• Improved exploitation and effective use of IP
  for economic growth

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Types of Assistance

• Legislative assistance

• Development of IP policy and strategy

• Modernization of IP administration system

• Human resource development capacity building

• Promotion of innovation creative activity

• Development management of IP assets

• Promotion of sub-regional cooperation in IP

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Bilateral Cooperation with Countries in the Region

• Bilateral cooperation agreements with several
  countries in the region for joint programs
  and activities for training and developing
  human resources in the region.

• Countries Japan (FIT), Australia (Framework
  Agreement), Singapore (Memorandum of
  Understanding), Republic of Korea (FIT), and
  China (ad-hoc basis)

• Activities roundtables, training courses,
  seminars and long-term fellowships, etc.

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Cooperation with Institutions in the Region

• Cooperation agreements with several national
  institutions in the region for training and
  developing human resources.
• Organizes a broad range of capacity-building
  programs and activities with the following
  institutions
• - Sri Lanka Foundation Institute
• - International Property Training Institute
  (IIPTI), Republic of Korea
• - China Intellectual Property Training Center
  (CIPTC)
• - Institute for Intellectual Property
  Development (IIPD), India
• - Intellectual Property Training Center, Malaysia

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Number of Activities in Asia and the Pacific in
2006

• 53 (regional, sub-regional and national)
  meetings and training courses
• 5 study visits organized
• 4 long-term fellowship programs
• 13 advisory/expert missions undertaken
• 61 equipment units delivered to the countries
• 1420 participants directly benefited from WIPO
  programs and activities in the region

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Supporting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
(SMEs)

• Promote a more active and effective use of the
  IP system by SMEs
• Strengthen the capacity of national governments
  to develop strategies, policies and programs to
  meet the IP needs of SMEs
• Improve the capacity of relevant public, private
  and civil society institutions, such as business
  and industry associations, to provide
  IP-related services to SMEs

• Recent activities
• - WIPO Regional Workshop on Technology
  Management for Promoting Transfer of Technology
  and IP Transactions, Singapore, July 2006
• - International Pat Licensing Sem, Tokyo, Jan
  2006 - Regional Seminar on International
  Negotiations on IP, Daejeon, Nov - Workshop on
  the Use of IP, Pakistan, June 2007.

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Thank you for your kind attention

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