[A2k] New Delhi: Development Agenda on IPRs receives a big boost

[Manon Ress]

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Development Agenda on IPRs receives a big boost

By ANI
Wednesday February 7, 05:18 PM
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070207/139/6bvor.html

New Delhi, Feb 7 (ANI): The proposal to establish a Development
Agenda on Intellectual Rights (IPRs) received a major boost on the
concluding day of the first-ever International Meeting on IPRs held
here.

The said Development Agenda contains 111 proposals made by member
countries of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

In the meeting, a unanimous decision was taken to strengthen the
WIPO's technical cooperation programme.

The meeting also proposed to create a WIPO Partenership Programme
Database, to devise innovative ways and means to enable Small and
Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to take advantage of flexibilities as
provided by relevant international agreements.

It was also decided to approach intellectual property enforcement in
the context of broader societal interests and development-related
concerns, in accordance with Article 7 of the TRIPs Agreement.

Participants from 22 countries were generally in favour of carrying
forward the Development Agenda and were also of the opinion that some
kind of harmonisation could be brought in by merging some of the
proposals to address concerns of all stakeholders for expeditious
consideration in the ensuing meeting of the WIPO Provisional
Committee on Development Agenda.

Countries representing both the developed and developing world
participated in this important event including Algeria, Argentina,
Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Brazil, Canada,
Colombia, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Poland, Romania,
Switzerland, UK and USA.

In a major initiative on the Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)
front, India hosted this first-ever International Meeting on
Intellectual Property and Development: Issues Related to the
Development Agenda. (ANI)



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