Program and budget wipo

Tang said. Proposed Budget In his budget proposal for the biennium, Mr. The digitalization will be accompanied by changes in the way WIPO works, including a focus on empowering staff, better in-house collaboration and creating a more dynamic work culture. This also includes a 4. Another issue is Program 6 Madrid and Lisbon Systems as some member states have requested that the Madrid and Lisbon systems be split into two separate programmes for budget purposes.

The United States has declared that it will hold up the biennium budget over this issue. The concern is that a subset of WIPO members negotiated a treaty modification Lisbon revision that other members say harms their interests and on which they were prevented from voting, and that other WIPO agreements to which they are party have been financially supporting the Lisbon agreement.

A number of textual changes were made in the draft program and budget, including a textual change in Program 3 [pdf] Copyright and Related Rights was agreed upon. This refers to the addition of language indicating that advice provided to member states to make their national laws compatible with their international obligations would take into account the existing flexibilities in the multilateral system. Developing countries in the past have been concerned with Program 18 as they found member states should be more involved in the activities carried out by the programme.

Program 1 Patent Law was edited [pdf] to include the protection of utility models, which are simplified forms of patents, and layout designs topographies of integrated circuits.

Closing statements reflected a general degree of satisfaction with the PBC session. Nigeria, speaking for the group, also asked that the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore IGC be transformed into a standing committee of the organisation. The secretariat responded that innovation is in all of the activities that it does.

Catherine Saez may be reached at csaez ip-watch. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Tang said WIPO's work would contribute to a world where innovation and creativity from anywhere is supported by IP for the good of everyone.

Tang said. Proposed Budget In his budget proposal for the biennium, Mr. This is the World Intellectual Property Organization. The proposal foresaw that the discussion on the methodology for the allocation of income and expenditure would be continued in future sessions of the PBC.

But the United States said the proposal does not reflect its concern about unions having budget deficits. The WIPO secretariat had suggested a decrease of 10 percent of that value. The decision also states that the outstanding issues left open at this session of the PBC will be addressed by the WIPO General Assembly due to start in a couple of weeks. In a separate decision [pdf], it was agreed that the discussion on the allocation of the proposed Capital Master Plan would continue at the General Assembly.

As was foreseen by several sources at the beginning of the session, the politically charged issue of which countries will host the next WIPO field offices could not be solved, and has also been pushed onto the plate of the General Assembly IPW , WIPO, 13 September Catherine Saez may be reached at csaez ip-watch.