This annual colloquium is designed to replace and develop the capability of IP consultants to assist their economies’ unbiased analysis, coverage evaluation and instructing within the discipline of IP regulation. The 2025 version was launched by WTO Deputy Director-Normal Johanna Hill, within the presence of Hasan Kleib, WIPO Deputy Director Normal.
In her opening remarks, DDG Hill emphasised the importance of the colloquium as a testomony to the collaborative partnership between the WTO and WIPO. “The synergies between our two organizations have been key to supporting our members as they navigate the complicated, continually evolving panorama of mental property and its implications for world commerce and financial growth,” she mentioned.
The occasion additionally offers alternatives for experience-sharing between contributors and the WTO and WIPO secretariats. As well as, contributors will interact with main worldwide analysis colleagues to discover sensible methods for bettering analysis methodologies within the gentle of rising worldwide finest follow and for contributing successfully to policy-making processes.
Launched in 2003, the WTO-WIPO colloquium for IP lecturers can be a chance to ascertain and strengthen contacts between the WTO, WIPO and IP consultants, with a view to persevering with dialogue and cooperation in instructing and analysis within the discipline of mental property. Over the previous 20 years, the colloquium has supplied capacity-building for greater than 400 IP consultants from internationally.
A duplicate of the Colloquium programme is accessible right here.
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