| 日期： | 2020/10/07 |
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| 作者： | The Arab States of the Gulf |
| 文件編號： | IP/C/R/TC/GCC/1 |
| 附件下載： | IPCRTCGCC1.pdf |
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TECHNICAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES: INFORMATION FROM
OTHER INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
Cooperation
Council for the Arab States of the Gulf
At its meeting of 30
July 2020, the Council for TRIPS agreed to invite intergovernmental
organization observers to the Council to update the information on their
technical and financial cooperation programmes relating to the implementation
of the TRIPS Agreement.
The
present document reproduces the information which has been received from the Cooperation Council
for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) by means of a communication dated 6 October 2020.
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1 Introduction
1. GCC is an intergovernmental
organization with membership of the following states: United Arab Emirates,
Kingdom of Bahrain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, and the State of Kuwait.
2. According to Article 20 of the GCC
Economic Agreement which states that "member States shall develop programmes
encouraging talented individuals and supporting innovation and invention;
cooperate in the field of intellectual property and develop regulations and
procedures ensuring the protection of intellectual property rights; and
coordinate their relevant policies towards other countries, regional blocs and
international and regional organizations", the GCC Secretariat General
directs most of its technical cooperation activities to its Members.
3. This document presents a report on
main technical cooperation activities undertaken by the Secretariat General of
the GCC from 9 September 2019 to 9 September 2020, which are relevant to the intellectual
property (IP) issues, following the invitation of the Chairman of the WTO
Council for TRIPS to provide updated information on such activities.
4. Technical assistance activities
undertaken by the GCC Secretariat General during the above‑mentioned period has
focused on various concrete IP aspects such as enforcement of IP laws, patent
applications drafting and electronic filing cooperation in IT System, innovation and invention, etc. These activities were
conducted in the form of workshops, on-job training, secondment or through
supporting the participation in Conferences or in international IP exhibitions.
A number of these activities were organized in cooperation with some IP
national offices. The said activities are listed in the Annex.
5. The COVID-19 outbreak affected in one way or
another the
technical cooperation activities undertaken by the GCC Secretariat General
during the above-mentioned period.
