[Ip-health] US and India Sign Historic MoU on Bilateral Cooperation on IP

[Gaëlle Krikorian]

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Dear all,
Does someone know what is in this Memorandum of Understanding?

Gaelle

On Dec 22, 2006, at 9:22 AM, heeseob nam wrote:

> USPTO press release at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/
> speeches/06-72.htm
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> AGIP News at http://www.ag-ip-news.com/GetArticle.asp?
> Art_ID=4036&lang=en
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> AGIPNEWS4036
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> 21/12/2006 07:37 GMT
> ag-IP-news
> US and India Sign Historic MoU on Bilateral Cooperation on IP
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>
> WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Commerce's United States Patent and
> Trademark Office (USPTO) announced on Thursday that Under-Secretary of
> Commerce for Intellectual Property Jon Dudas and Ajay Dua, secretary
> of the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry (IMCI), recently
> signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Bilateral
> Cooperation between the United States and India on intellectual
> property issues, a press release by the Office stated.
>
> "This MoU is a first between the United States and India on
> intellectual property issues, and it will open the door for an
> unprecedented level of cooperation and sharing of best practices,"
> Dudas said.
>
> "The MoU advances the objective established by President Bush and
> Prime Minister Singh in March for the United States and India to work
> together to promote innovation, creativity and technological
> advancement by providing a vibrant intellectual property rights
> regime," he added.
>
> Under the terms of the MoU, which builds upon the work of the US-India
> Trade Policy Forum and other successful bilateral meetings between the
> United States and India, the USPTO and the IMCI's Office of the
> Controller General will cooperate on capacity building, human resource
> development and public awareness of intellectual property.
>
> Among the activities designed to strengthen the work of both offices,
> the USPTO will help train Indian patent and trademark examiners,
> develop education material for the examiners and produce a manual on
> patent practice for use by Indian examiners and the public. This work
> will be carried forward with action plans that will establish specific
> areas for cooperation over a renewable two-year period of time.
>
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Gaëlle Krikorian

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Inserm - Université Paris 13 - Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
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