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Commitments
contained in Article 67back
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Article
67 of the TRIPS Agreement
requires developed country Members to provide, on request
and on mutually agreed terms and conditions, technical
and financial cooperation in favour of developing and
least-developed country Members. According to this
provision, the objective of such cooperation is to
facilitate the implementation of the Agreement. The
Article specifies that such assistance shall include
assistance in the preparation of laws and regulations on
the protection and enforcement of intellectual property
rights as well as on the prevention of their abuse, and
support regarding the establishment or reinforcement of
domestic offices and agencies relevant to these matters,
including the training of personnel.
Information
on the technical and financial cooperation programmes
provided by developed country Members and
intergovernmental organizations back
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In
order to ensure that information on available assistance
is readily accessible and to facilitate the monitoring of
compliance with the obligation of Article 67, developed
country Members have agreed to present descriptions of
their relevant technical and financial cooperation
programmes and to update this annually. For the sake of
transparency, intergovernmental organizations have also
presented, on the invitation of the Council, information
on their activities. The information from developed
country Members, intergovernmental organizations and the
WTO Secretariat on their on technical cooperation
activities in TRIPS is circulated in documents in the
IP/C/W/ series. They can be obtained from the
WTO on-line document database.
Contact
points for technical cooperation back
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Developed country Members have agreed to notify contact
points in their administrations for technical cooperation
on TRIPS.
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Documentation used in technical cooperation activities of the WTO’s Intellectual Property Division
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Cooperation
with WIPO
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Technical cooperation is one of the three main areas
covered by the Agreement between the World Intellectual
Property Organization and the World Trade Organization.
The cooperation agreement provides that the International
Bureau of WIPO and the WTO Secretariat shall enhance
cooperation in their legal-technical assistance and
technical cooperation activities relating to the TRIPS
Agreement for developing countries, so as to maximize the
usefulness of those activities and ensure their mutually
supportive nature. The assistance made available by each
Secretariat to the members of its own organization will
be made available also to the members of the other
organization. The General Assembly of the WIPO has also
agreed that the International Bureau should make
arrangements so as to be able to respond to requests from
developing countries for WIPO legal and technical
assistance relating to the TRIPS Agreement and that it
should expand the coverage of the TRIPS Agreement in
existing WIPO development cooperation activities. |
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