The growing technical cooperation between Vietnam and the World
Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has helped the country
establish regulations and technical facilities for the intellectual
property system.
WIPO also helped train Vietnamese officials
related to intellectual asset management and build development centres,
Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tran Van Tung, who attended
the 54th series of meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of
the WIPO from September 22-30, told Vietnam News Agency correspondents
in Geneva.
At the sessions, Ambassador Nguyen
Trung Thanh, Vietnam’s permanent representative to the United Nations,
the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and other international
organisations, was elected as the new Chair of the WIPO Coordination
Committee.
Thanh chaired the committee’s 70th
meeting on September 26, during which he appointed Deputy Directors
General and Assistant Directors General of the committee and considered
the US’s proposal for a Supplementary Agenda Item entitled “the WIPO
Coordination Committee to Provide Advice to the Lisbon Union Assembly
regarding the Convening of a Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of a
Revised Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical
Indications in 2015”.
WIPO is the global forum
for the promotion of intellectual property (IP) policy, services,
information and cooperation. As a specialised agency of the United
Nations, WIPO assists its 187 member states in developing a balanced
international IP legal framework that meets society’s evolving needs.
It provides assistance in obtaining IP
rights in multiple countries, resolves disputes, delivers
capacity-building programmes to help developing countries benefit from
IP, and provides free access to unique knowledge banks on IP
information.-VNA