Assemblies of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)

From 22 to 30 September, the 56th session of the Assemblies of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) took place in Geneva. It covered subjects relating to the functioning of the various WIPO committees. The Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTO) took the opportunity to hold several parallel bilateral and multilateral meetings with various offices and strategic partners.

Bilateral meetings were held with the Industrial Property (IP) Offices of Turkey, Israel, Japan, Argentina, Morocco, Brazil and Mexico. Multilateral meetings included a meeting between WIPO, the Argentinian National Institute for Intellectual Property (INPI) and the SPTO, with the presence of the Director General of WIPO, Francis Gurry, and the INPI in its capacity as Secretariat for the Latin-American Programme for Industrial Property and Promotion of Development (IBEPI). The meeting dealt with topics of interest regarding the future of IBEPI.

Spanish and Portuguese, languages for technology
LATIPAT is another of the topics covered in these meetings among the IP Offices. This data base, now over 10 years old, has been very successful as can be seen from the more than one and a half million documents it contains. This joint project between WIPO, SPTO and the European Patent Office (EPO), with special collaboration from all the Latin American offices, is of strategic importance for promoting Spanish and Portuguese as languages for technology throughout the world.

In addition, on Friday 26 September an agreement was signed between WIPO and SPTO to carry out cooperation activities with countries in Eastern and Central Europe.

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