The Academic Institutions Program (AIP) of the WIPO Academy makes extensive use of literature and resources on flexibilities in implementation of international IP agreements, most notably the flexibilities in the TRIPS Agreement.
For this purpose, the AIP relies on IP experts in the WIPO Secretariat, outside IP experts, and, at the same time, relies on relevant materials (publications and documents) produced by other relevant international organizations, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
All the Master’s degree programs and the annual WIPO-WTO Colloquium for Teachers of IP include one or more topics on flexibilities in relation to patents, public health issues, food security, climate change, etc. List below:
- LL.M in Intellectual Property with University of Turin in cooperation with the International Training Center of the International Labour Organization (ITC-ILO), Turin, Italy;
- MIP with Africa University and the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), Mutare, Zimbabwe;
- MIP with Austral University and the National Industrial Property Institute of Argentina (INPI) of Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina
- M in Intellectual Property with Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
- MIP with University of Yaoundé II and Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI), Yaoundé, Cameroon
- MIP with Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; and
- WIPO-WTO Colloquium for Teachers of IP
Moreover, you can find the e-learning materials related to flexibilities by creating a WIPO Account and acceding to the following link: https://welc.wipo.int/lms/course/view.php?id=669