ITSSD Submits Comments in Response to WIPO Report on the International Patent System

During the 34th World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) General Assembly held in September/October 2007, it was decided that a Report on the International Patent System (the 'WIPO Report') would be submitted to the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP).

The WIPO Secretariat subsequently released such a Report, in 'working document' form, during the 12th Session of the WIPO SCP, convened June 23-27, 2008.

[See: (Document SCP/12/3), at: http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/scp/en/scp_12/scp_12_3.pdf , at p. 2].

As an organization recently accredited as an Ad Hoc Observer to the SCP [(See: Document SCP/12/2)], at: http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/scp/en/scp_12/scp_12_2.pdf ; http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/scp/en/scp_12/scp_12_4_rev.doc ], the ITSSD was invited to, and did in fact, submit its response/comments to the WIPO Report between October 31, and November 7, 2008.

See: ITSSD Reponse to the WIPO Report on the International Patent System


Summary of ITSSD Response to the WIPO Report on the International Patent System


Supplement to ITSSD Response to the WIPO Report on the International Patent System

In addition, ITSSD Advisory Board Member George T. Willingmyre of GTW Associates, Inc. attended meetings during the Seventeenth Session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Works (SCCR) convened from November 3 to 7, 2008, as a representative of the ITSSD (See: http://www.wipo.int/scp/en/meetings/session_13/comments.html).