Terms of Reference of the WIPO Coordination Office, New York

The Coordination Office in New York:

Attends all major UN meetings with an intellectual property dimension and development. Among the major meetings attended are the General Assembly sessions, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and the main committees of the UN General Assembly, mainly,
- Economic and financial matters (Second Committee);
- Social, humanitarian and cultural matters (Third Committee);
- Special political and decolonization matters, especially information section (Fourth Committee);
- Administrative and budgetary matters (Fifth Committee)
- Legal matters (Sixth Committee)
The Office participates in UN inter-agency meetings dealing with development programmes, Economic and Social Council activities, the High-level Committee on Programmes of the United Nations system Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), the substantive session of the CEB as well as a range of UN common system issues. Reports are regularly sent to WIPO Headquarters on these meetings;
In addition the foregoing, the Office gives briefings and holds workshops on an array of intellectual property issues for members of the diplomatic community, UN staff and civil society organizations.

The Coordination Office in New York also:

Responds to a large volume of substantive incoming queries from the US legal community and general public, primarily by telephone but also by e-mail and postal mail, relevant to services provided under WIPO treaties and other mechanisms (e.g. Madrid Protocol, Patent Cooperation Treaty and Domain Name Dispute Resolution);
Regularly visits universities throughout the US to lecture on WIPO and its mandate, raising awareness about WIPO services among academics and prospective IP practitioners;
Organizes and facilitates the collaborative events with professional associations throughout the US;
Receives international visitors (e.g. under the aegis of the State Department International Visitor Program), briefing them in detail on the mandate and programmes of WIPO and IPRs especially those of relevance to the work of the visitor in her or his country of origin;
Arranges cultural events to popularize copyrights and other IPRs issues
Process administrative matters of concern to WIPO Headquarters.