1. Consultant, WIPO Worldwide Academy
World Intellectual Property Organization and the WIPO Worldwide Academy
Intensive Seminar on Intellectual Property for Law Students
Geneva, May 23 to 27, 2005
Martha Chikowore
Consultant, WIPO Worldwide Academy
April 3, 2008

2. Introduction: What is Intellectual Property? History of WIPO
MAIN TOPICS
Introduction: What is Intellectual Property?
History of WIPO
WIPO’s Role and Current Main Activities
WIPO Worldwide Academy

3. Intellectual Property:
Introduction
Intellectual Property:
Ideas, inventions, technologies, art works, music and literature that are intangible when first created but become valuable in tangible form as products.

4. Intellectual Property Tools
Industrial Property
- patents - trademarks - industrial designs - geographical indications
Copyright & Related Rights
- literary, artistic, musical works
- actors, music distributors, etc.

5. Fields of Industrial Property
Patents (protect technical features)
Trademarks (protect a sign in relation to goods and/or services)
Designs (protect the external appearance of a product)
GI’s (geographical names identifying a product from that place, the quality of which is attributable to its geographical origin)

6. Origin of WIPO/History of WIPO
1873- international exhibition of inventions in Vienna
1883- birth of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
1886- adoption of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

7. Origin of WIPO/History of WIPO
The Paris Convention and the Berne Convention, each set up an International Bureau
1893- the two Bureaus united to form an international organization called International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (BIRPI). It was based in Berne, Switzerland
1960 – BIRPI moved to Geneva
1970 – WIPO was established
1974 – WIPO became a UN Specialized Agency

8. Milestones : 1883 to 2008 2005 PLT 2002 Internet Treaties 1989 1970
Madrid Protocol
PCT
1970
WIPO established
1967
WIPO Convention
1960
BIRPI moves to Geneva
1925
Hague Agreement
1893
BIRPI
1891
1886
Madrid Agreement
1883
Berne Convention
Paris Convention

9. Basic Facts about WIPO Status: An int’l intergovernmental organization
WIPO’s Mission:
To promote the protection of IP rights worldwide and extend the benefits of the international IP system to all
Status: An int’l intergovernmental organization
Member States: 184
Staff: from 100 countries
Treaties Administered: 24
Decisions by: GA, CC, WIPO Conference
Guiding Principles: Transparency, Accountability, Consensus

10. Main Activities Registration
Services facilitating the international protection of intellectual property, making them user-friendly, simpler and cost-effective
Norm-Setting Setting international standards
through adoption of hard laws (treaties) and
soft laws (principles, guidelines,
recommendations)
International classification
and standardization activities
Cooperation among industrial property offices
concerning patents, TM and Ind. des. documentation
Program Activities: IP for Development
Legal-Technical assistance to developing countries,
LDCs, capacity building of Member States

11. Main activities Promote Understanding of IP Registration
Administration of treaties
Cooperation for development
Human Resources Development (WIPO Worldwide Academy)

12. Other programs IP and economic development Strategic use of IP
IP and new technology
Creative industries
Collective management
IP and SMEs
IP and LDCs
Traditional Knowledge, Folklore and Genetic Resources

13. Human Resources Dev. WIPO Worldwide Academy Programs
Professional Development
Policy Development
Education Degree/Diploma
Distance Learning Program
Executive & Research
WIPO Summer School

14. Professional Training
Objective: To train
- Professional staff in IP Offices
- R&D Institutions
- Industry Associations
- Intergovernmental Orgs
- Partnership with
National/Regional IP Institutions

15. Policy Development
Objective - To provide a forum for sharing information and training:
decision-makers
Policy advisors
Law enforcement officials, Judges etc.
Diplomats
General public
Gov’t officials (WTO-TPC)
Professors (WIPO-WTO Colloquium)

16. Cooperation with Universities
Degree & Diploma Programs:
Turin, Italy (LLM in IP)
Lund/Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Sweden (LLM in H/R & IP)
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India (Diploma in IP)
South Africa (UNISA) (Certificate in IP)
University of Bucharest, Romania (Diploma in IP)

17. “Distance should no longer
be an obstruction
to instruction”
Dr. Kamil Idris Director General

18. Distance Learning Cost effective Flexible Large audiences Languages:
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

19. Costing per course DL-001 - free DL- 101 - free Advanced Courses:
US$80.00 students & professors
US$ participants from Developing countries
US$ participants from Developed countries

20. Research & Executive Program
IP Research
Objective: Better understanding of the role and impact of IP on industry, national, regional and international development
Interdisciplinary
Strengthen leadership quality in the IP field of individuals and organizations

21. WIPO Academy Summer School
Objective:
To enhance IP
skills of senior
students and
young
professionals
field of IP.
“We arrived as
individuals, we left as an
IP network”

22. WIPO’s Income
Total: 531 M CHF

23. The World Intellectual Property Organization
Welcome ….
Today, we are going to explain to you, in very general terms,
what this Organization does and why?
Thank you