Course Basics
- Venue - CEIPI, Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg
- Date - June 10-21
- Language - English
- Open to - Senior officials from the relevant Ministry
- Application Form
WIPO/CEIPI Advanced Training Course on the Legal, Management and Economic Aspects of Industrial Property
This training course is organized in cooperation with the French Center for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI).
Content and Structure
- patent law and its contribution to innovation in Europe;
- use of flexibilities in the international intellectual property law and development;
- presentation of the French National Patent Office;
- presentation of the European Patent Office and European patent procedure;
- intellectual property, agriculture and global food security;
- the Community Trademark and the Office of Harmonization of the Internal Market;
- intellectual property provisions of Free Trade Agreements;
- intellectual property and development: an economic perspective;
- role of intellectual property and development of local capacity for production and supply of medicines;
- protection of geographical indications: opportunities for development;
- pharmaceutical innovation, public health and intellectual property law;
- intellectual property and human rights: implications for development;
- intellectual property and sustainable development;
- copyright and access to knowledge: challenges for digitization and open access publishing;
- collective management of copyright and related rights: economic perspective;
- understanding the significance of design rights for development;
- traditional knowledge, drugs discovery and grant of patents;
- public domain and its importance for creativity and innovation;
- TRIPS enforcement rules, dispute settlement and development;
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), international rules on intellectual property;
- enforcement issues for development;
- intellectual property, climate change and access to green technologies.
