[A2k] Seminar Making Patent Policy Work for Development

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The South Centre Innovation and Access to Knowledge Programme invites you
to its
Fourth South Innovation Perspectives Series Seminar:

Making Patent Policy Work for Development: Lessons from the SWISS
Experience

Date: Wednesday, 24 October 2007

Venue: Palais des Nations, Room IX (Old building, 3rd Floor)

Time: 15h00 - 17h00

Speaker:
Dr. Nikolaus Thumm, Senior Economic Counsellor, Swiss Federal Institute of
Intellectual Property, Berne

Commentators:
Prof. Dominique Foray, Chair of Economics of Innovation, Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, Lausanne
Mr. Huang Rengang, Minister Counsellor, Chinese permanent mission to the
WTO

This Seminar presentation will provide a factual account of the history of
Swiss patent law. The aim of the Seminar is to stimulate discussion on and
draw lessons from the Swiss experience.
It is a historical fact that countries that have successfully developed
did not follow a ?one-size-fits-all? model and did not develop on the
basis of the policies and institutions that they now recommend, or coerce,
developing countries to adopt. The progressive development and
implementation of patent law in developed countries, as a tool for
promoting certain types of innovation, is a case example.