Technical Assistance On IPRs For Developing Countries: Some Strategic Policy Issues And Recommendations For Future Priorities For Donors And Developing Countries
ICTSD-UNCTAD Dialogue, 2nd Bellagio Series on Development and Intellectual Property, 18-21 Sept. 03
by Tom PENGELLY, ICTSD Consultant
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Technical Assistance On Iprs For Developing Countries: Some Strategic Policy Issues And Recommendations For Future Priorities For Donors And Developing Countries PDF • 0.19 MBDevelopment, Geneva (ICTSD) as a background document for the Second Bellagio Series on Development and Intellectual Property, 18-21 September 2003 in Bellagio, Italy. The note has been prepared as a policy-oriented input into the strategic discussions at Bellagio, rather than an academic paper; seeking to provide concrete suggestions to stimulate debate and offer specific recommendations on priority areas for discussion.
The note draws significantly on the findings and outputs of the major workstream on institutional capacity and technical assistance issues for developing countries in IP administration, regulation and policymaking undertaken by the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR) between June 2001 and September 2002. Other sources include primary material from IP technical assistance donors; the Second WTO/OECD Report on Trade-Related Technical Assistance (July 2003); and the report of a conference on Implementation of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health: Technical Assistance – How to Get it Right?, organised by Medicines Sans Frontieres and Oxfam International in Geneva in March 2002.
As well as being an input to the discussions at the second Bellagio meeting, the note is an interim output of one of the workstreams in the new ICTSD project on Integrating Sustainable Development Objectives and Intellectual Property-related Technical Assistance Services. It is anticipated that two substantial analytical papers on IP technical assistance will be produced by ICTSD consultants as further outputs from this workstream of the project in 2004.
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