[Ip-health] UNCTAD-ICTSD Roundtable: The US-China Panel Report and the Future of IPRs Enforcement.23.Feb.09

[Ahmed Abdel Latif]

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) are
organizing a roundtable on: The WTO US-China Panel Report: Findings and
Implications for the Future of IPRs Enforcement, Monday 23rd February
2009, 14:45-17h30, at the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) in
Geneva, Room C 1.

The objective of the roundtable is to examine the findings of the panel
report in the WTO US-China dispute (Measures Affecting the Protection
and Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) and discuss its
implications for the future of IPRs enforcement.

The panel's findings in this dispute were highly anticipated as it
involved the interpretation by a WTO panel, for the first time, of a
number of key provisions of the TRIPS Agreement on enforcement.

Programme and speakers:

Key legal findings and implications of the US. China Panel Report
Peter Yu
Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property Research
Centre, Drake University

Systemic implications for international trade and WTO law
Joost Pauwelyn
Professor, International Economic Law and WTO Law,
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

A perspective from developing countries and consumers
Atul Kaushik
Director, CUTS Geneva Resource Centre

Implications for the protection and enforcement of IPRs in China
Xuan Li
Coordinator, Innovation and Access to Knowledge Programme, South Centre

The interventions will be followed by an exchange of views with
participants.

Pre-registration by 20 February is required due to limited space and
security requirements.

Please e-mail: crussell@ictsd.ch or call +41 22 917 8855;

For more information:
http://ictsd.net/i/events/dialogues/40626/