Technical Cooperation for Intellectual Property Policy in Developing Countries

10th – 11th July 2005

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ICTSD Dialogue on Sustainable Development and Intellectual Property

As developing countries implement international IP commitments and participate in multilateral, regional and bilateral IP negotiations, there has been increasing political attention to the challenges and shortcomings of IP technical assistance and cooperation. Technical assistance is rarely a purely technical matter, as the nature of the provided assistance will have a strong impact on the design and formulation of national IP policies. The dialogue brought together developed and developing country delegates, academics, and NGOs to:

Evaluate the current state of play in debates on intellectual property (IP)-related technical cooperation and capacity building at the multilateral, regional and bilateral levels;
Take stock of existing suggestions and proposals for ensuring that technical cooperation better enhances the capacities of developing countries to adopt appropriate, coherent and effective positions and policies at all levels;
Explore strategic policy actions and concrete next steps for advancing discussions on improving the design and implementation of IP technical assistance;
Consider further work, independent research and new initiatives related to technical cooperation.The Dialogue was informal and off the record, and focused on discussing and elaborating particular reform proposals. The objective was to elaborate and refine very specific proposals and concrete next steps that could be taken up by ICTSD, partner organisations, governments, IGOs, academics or NGOs.

Agenda

Monday 11th July

ROUNDTABLE:
09.00-09.15 Café
09.15 Welcoming Remarks
09.30 - 11.00 Overview Presentation and Regional Experiences
Moderator: Pedro ROFFE, ICTSD
Overview Presentation: The Reform of IP Technical Cooperation: Current debates, challenges and proposals for ways forward Prof. Michel KOSTECKI, Enterprise Institute of the University of Neuchâtel National
Regional experiences with IP technical cooperation - Mr. Manuel RUIZ, Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (Peru); Ms. Susan VILLANUEVA, University of the Philippines (Philippines); Mr. Jakkrit KUANPOTH, University of Wollongong (Thailand).
Questions and Discussion
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DIALOGUE:
11.30 Welcome and Overview: A dialogue on solution-oriented reform proposals
11.40 Introductions
11.50 Session 1. The Design of Technical Cooperation
Mr. Pedro ROFFE, ICTSD (Chile), Draft principles and guidelines for recipients, donors, and providers in the area of IP technical cooperation (draft prepared by Professor Carlos Correa) (10 mins).
Dr. Jakkrit KUANPOTH, University of Wollongong (Thailand), Guidelines as a tool for supporting national capacity to assess interests and needs in IP technical cooperation (10 mins).
Mr. Ahmed ABDELATIF, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Egypt), Matching technical cooperation with national interests and needs: Programmatic and budgetary aspects of requests for multilateral assistance (10 mins).
13.00 Lunch
14.15 Session 1 (continued) Open Discussion
15.30 Break
16.00 Session 2. The Implementation of IP Technical Cooperation
Ms. Carolyn DEERE (Australia), Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford University, Draft code of ethics for IP technical cooperation donors and providers (10 mins)
Discussants (5-10 mins each): Ms. Michelle CHILDS, Consumer Project on Technology (UK), Applying a code of ethics to IP technical cooperation: Learning from experience in other sectors
Ms. Vera BAMPO-ADDO, Registrar-General’s Department (Ghana), Reflections on the Ghanaian experience with IP technical cooperation: How could a Code of Ethics alter implementation in practice?
Open Discussion
18.00 Close of Day One

Tuesday 12th July

08.45 Café
09.15 Briefing on Sessions 1 and 2: David VIVAS and Jakkrit KUANPOTH
09.30 Session 3. The Evaluation of IP Technical Cooperation
Mr. Tom PENGELLY, Saana Consulting, Benchmarks and indicators for the evaluation of IP technical cooperation (10 mins)
Mr. Carsten FINK, World Bank Research Group, Best practices in evaluation: Learning from the broader field of international development cooperation (10 mins)
Ms. Souheir NADDE, Ministry of Economy and Trade, Lebanon, A national perspective on the benefits and challenges of a greater emphasis on evaluation (10 mins)
Open Discussion
11.00 Break
11.15 Session 4. Organising IP Technical Cooperation: Coordination or Competition?
Mr. Michel KOSTECKI, Enterprise Institute of the University of Neuchâtel, Overview of various proposals for ways to improve the institutional framework for IP technical cooperation (10 mins)
Discussants (5-8 mins each): Mr. Luis VILLARROEL, Ministry of Education, Chile, A national perspective on the benefits, challenges and pitfalls of proposals to reform the organisation of IP technical cooperation
Mr. Sisule MUSUNGU, South Centre, Assessing the options: Political feasibility and practical considerations
Open Discussion
13.00 Working Lunch: Final discussion and next steps
14.30 Close

Participants

Ahmed Abdel Latif
Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Egypt

Arthur E. Appleton
White & Case
Switzerland/USA

Azuna Appondj
Permanent Mission of Malaysia
Malaysia

Leonardo de Athayde
Permanent Mission of Brazil
Brazil

Vera Bampo-Addo
Registrar-General’s Departmen
Ghana

Christophe Bellmann
ICTSD
Switzerland

Johanna von Braun
ICTSD
Germany

Nuno Pires De Carvalho
WIPO
Portugal

Michelle Childs
CPTech
UK

Jose Checa
ISO
Spain

Jonathan Curci
University of Geneva
Italy

Carolyn Deere
University of Oxford
Australia

Ragui El-Etreby
Permanent Mission of Egypt
Egypt

Carsten Fink
World Bank Development Research Group
Germany

Oscar Fornoza
ICTSD
Venezuela

Hekmatollah Ghorbani
Permanent Mission of Iran
Iran

Jens Gobrecht
WHO

Roger Kampf
WTO
Germany

Michel Kostecki
Enterprise Institute of the University of Neuchâtel
Switzerland

Jakkrit Kuanpoth
University of Woolongong, Australia
Thailand

James Lankford
QUNO
USA

Lauro Locks
WTO
Brazil

Jesús López Cegarra
Universidad de los Andes
Venezuela

Philippe De Meyere
European Patent Office
Belgium

Barbara Milani
WHO
Italy

Sisule Musungu
South Centre
Kenya

Souheir Nadde
Lebanese Ministry of Economy and Trade
Lebanon

Maria Julia Oliva
CIEL
Argentina

Davinia Ovett
3D
UK

Guilherme Patriota
Permanent Mission of Brazil
Brazil

Tom Pengelly
Saana Consulting
UK

Steven Price
Public Interest Intellectual Property Advocates (PIIPA)
USA

Annalisa Primi
ECLAC-UN
Italy

Pedro Roffe
ICTSD
Chile

Manuel Ruiz
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental (SPDA), Lima
Peru

Falou Samb
AITIC
Senegal

Usman Sarki
Permanent Mission of Nigeria
Nigeria

Maximiliano Santa Cruz
Permanent Mission of Chile
Chile

Sangeeta Shashikant
Third World Network
Malaysia

Christoph Spennemann
UNCTAD
Germany

Andrew Stevenson
ICTSD
UK

Urs P. Thomas
University of Geneva Faculty of Law

Elisabeth Tuerk
UNCTAD
Austria

Ashwin Vasan
WHO

Susan D. Villanueva
University of the Philippines
Philippines

Luis Villarroel
Chilean Ministry of Education
Chile

David Vivas-Eugui
ICTSD
Venezuela

Martin Watson
Quakers United Nations Office (QUNO)
UK