PADEMARK - Patent Attorneys/Trademark Attorneys in Vietnam

Forty-Fifth Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of Member States of WIPO is scheduled to be taken place in Geneva, Switzerland from September 22-30, 2008.

The Memeber States will discuss and make important decisions that will have great impacts on the operation of WIPO and the international intellectual property system in the years to come.

The issues to be approved at these Meetings, among other things, will include:

- Appointment of the New Director General;

- Report on the sessions of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP);

- Report on the Work of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), including the Protection of Audiovisual Performances and Protection of the Rights of Broadcasting Organizations;

- Report on the Work of the Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE), and the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights;

- Report on the Work of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC);

- Report on the Work of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP);

- Matters Concerning Internet Domain Names;

- Exchange of Priority Documents in the Area of Patents;

- Matters Concerning Article 6ter of the Paris Convention;

- Matters Concerning the Madrid Union;

- Matters Concerning the Hague Union;

- Matters Concerning the Lisbon Union;

- Matters Concerning the IPC Union;

- Matters Concerning the PCT Union;

- Matters Concerning the Patent Law Treaty.

The brief report of these Meetings will be available on our website (http://www.pademark.com ) soon after the Meetings.