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WIPO Welcomes Spain's Support for Development Projects

Geneva, September 28, 2004
Press Releases PR/2004/393

The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Dr. Kamil Idris, held talks on Tuesday, September 29, 2004 with Ms. Teresa Mogín Barquín, the recently appointed Director General of the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO), to discuss implementation of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between WIPO and SPTO which includes a significant financial contribution for projects in the Ibero-American region.

The meeting was held on the sidelines of the annual session of the WIPO Assemblies. Dr. Idris congratulated Ms. Mogín Barquín on her appointment, expressed thanks for Spain's generous contribution and applauded the commitment of the Spanish Government to modernizing and promoting the use of the intellectual property system in the Ibero-American region.

Talks focussed, in particular, on implementation of the MOU, which was signed in July 2004, to establish funds-in-trust valued at Euros 245,000 to finance joint cooperation projects in the Ibero-American region. These activities include a joint WIPO, SPTO, and European Patent Office (EPO) initiative, known as LATIPAT, to enable the electronic publication of data on patent applications from Latin American countries. This is designed to enhance the global dissemination of patent information in the Spanish language.

Activities to be implemented using the funds-in-trust include an initiative to be undertaken in cooperation with WIPO, SPTO, EPO and countries from the Central American Isthmus (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama and the Dominican Republic) to harmonize and streamline patent procedures in that region. This will result in a practical manual outlining unified criteria for patent examiners and users of the patent system in order to generate a common understanding of the patent granting process in the countries concerned.

Activities also include a training program for judges in the region and promotion of the use of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), particularly within existing country members (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba Ecuador, Nicaragua and Mexico). The PCT is an international patent filing system that facilitates the process of obtaining patent protection in up to 124 countries. Plans to finance the translation into Spanish of the advanced level of the international patent classification (IPC), which is currently published in English and French only, will also be implemented. The IPC is a regularly updated international system for classifying inventions in patent applications in all fields of technology. This system is indispensable for the retrieval of patent documents in the search for establishing the novelty of an invention or determining the state of the art in a particular area of technology.

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  • Email: publicinf@wipo.int.
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