[ 1985 ] Part 2 Chapter 15 the World Intellectual Property Organization
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World Intellectual Property Organisation 1359 Chapter XV World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) During 1985, membership of the World Intellec- At the sixteenth series of meetings, held at tual Property Organization (WIPO) increased to Geneva in September/October 1985, the govern- 112 with the admission of Angola (15 April), ing bodies of WIPO and the Unions administered Nicaragua (5 May) and Bangladesh (11 May). The by it approved reports on activities and the pro- number of States party to the Paris Convention gramme and budget for 1986-1987. for the Protection of Industrial Property rose to The WIPO General Assembly unanimously ap- 97 with the admission of Mongolia. The number pointed Arpad Bogsch as the Director General of of States party to the Berne Convention for the WIPO for a further period of six years. Protection of Literary and Artistic Works re- mained at 76. Barbados became party to the Nice Activities in 1985 Agreement concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Pur- Development co-operation activities poses of the Registration of Marks, raising During 1985, WIPO co-operated with most membership of the Nice Union to 33. Barbados developing countries and with intergovernmental and Italy deposited their instruments of accession organizations in their development projects to the Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT), bring- relating to intellectual property, by providing ing PCT Union membership to 39. At the end of assistance in the preparation of legislation, or the year, total membership in WIPO and its various establishment or modernization of national or Unions, taken together, was 127. regional institutions, including patent documen- Seventeen intergovernmental Unions in the two tation and information services. main fields of intellectual property were ad- Two WIPO permanent programmes, supervised ministered by WIPO in 1985. They were founded by intergovernmental permanent committees, pro- on the multilateral treaties, conventions and vided the framework for development co-operation agreements listed below in order of adoption: relating to industrial property and to copyright and neighbouring rights. Industrial property: Paris Convention for the Protec- Regarding industrial property, WIPO organized tion of Industrial Property; Madrid Agreement for the a workshop on patents in the service of develop- Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of Source on Goods; Madrid Agreement concerning the Inter- ment (Harare, Zimbabwe), a high-level policy national Registration of Marks; The Hague Agreement planning meeting on industrial property in Africa concerning the International Deposit of Industrial (Lomé, Togo), a national industrial property Designs; Nice Agreement concerning the International seminar (Baghdad, Iraq), a high-level workshop Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes on industrial property in the Arab countries of the Registration of Marks; Lisbon Agreement for (Geneva), a regional workshop on invention de- the Protection of Appellations of Origin and Their velopment and innovation (Manila, Philippines), International Registration; Locarno Agreement a regional workshop on licensing and other in- establishing an International Classification for Industrial dustrial property transfer arrangements (Bombay, Designs; Patent Co-operation Treaty; Strasbourg Agree- ment concerning the International Patent Cl&s&a- India), an interregional seminar on industrial tion (IPC); Trademark Registration Treaty; Vienna strategy and the patent system (Seoul, Republic Agreement establishing an International Classification of Korea), a high-level meeting of government of- of the Figurative Elements of Marks; Budapest Treaty ficials of South pacific countries to consider co- on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Micro- operation in industrial property (Suva, Fiji), a organisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure; Nairobi meeting for the English-speaking Caribbean coun- Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol. tries, Haiti and Suriname to consider co-operation Copyright and neighbouring rights: Berne Convention in industrial property (Bridgetown, Barbados), a for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works; Rome workshop on classification, search and examina- Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers tion of patent applications in chemistry for the An- of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations; Geneva Convention for the Protection of Producers dean countries (Caracas, Venezuela), an Ibero- of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of American meeting on the establishment of an Their Phonograms; Brussels Convention relating to international patent documentation centre in the the Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals Spanish language (Madrid, Spain), a meeting of Transmitted by Satellite. vice-ministers and a meeting of heads of industrial 1360 Intergovernmental organizations property offices of the Central American isthmus Another expert committee met at Geneva in countries (Guatemala City) and a symposium on February and December to advise on proposals industrial property for judges of the same coun- contained in a memorandum drawn up by the tries (San José, Costa Rica), a national workshop International Bureau-the WIPO secretariat-on on patent documents as a source of technological a possible treaty on the international registration information (Havana and Cienfuegos, Cuba), and of marks. The memorandum highlighted the a meeting of directors of industrial property offices limited territorial scope of the Madrid Agreement of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay (Asun- on the subject, the reasons for its lack of attrac- cion, Paraguay). tiveness for member States of the Paris Union not Medals and prizes for inventors and promoters party to the Agreement, and the need to seek solu- of innovation were awarded by WIPO at national tions acceptable to the greatest number of coun- and international exhibitions or contests and special tries and to devise a simple, inexpensive system ceremonies held in Belgium, Bulgaria, China, India, for users. The memorandum also set out likely dif- the Ivory Coast, Japan, Paraguay, the Philippines, ferences between the Madrid Agreement and a the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Uruguay, the new treaty which would coexist with it. It was USSR and Zaire. decided that the International Bureau would draw Continuing a programme started in 1975, 410 up a detailed outline of a new treaty and would state-of-the-art search reports on technology disclosed study its financial aspects and links with regional in patent documents and related literature were pro- systems. vided to developing countries free of charge under The Bureau published the text of the first ver- agreements concluded between WIPO and con- sion of a draft treaty on protecting intellectual pro- tributing industrial property offices in developed perty in respect of integrated circuits (popularly countries. Most of the reports were prepared by the called “microchips”). It also published Industrial patent offices of Australia, Austria, Finland, the Ger- Property Protection of Biotechnological Inventions which man Democratic Republic, the Federal Republic analysed several related basic issues. of Germany, Japan, Sweden and the USSR. Work continued on updating IPC and other Development co-operation activities in copyright classifications concerning industrial designs or and neighbouring rights included training courses registration of trade and service marks. at Brasilia, Brazil, and Nanjing, China; a seminar During 1985, 7,305 international applications for Central American and Caribbean States, at Mex- were filed under PCT in 28 receiving offices. The ico City, and seminars at Cairo, Egypt, and Cotonou, PCT Gazette was published fortnightly and special Benin; and a workshop at Zomba, Malawi. issues were put out in March and December to WIPO training programmes continued to grow, consolidate general information. The total number with 239 fellowships granted in 1985 to nationals of registrations of marks under the Madrid Agree- of 83 developing countries in industrial property ment was 8,961. To that figure should be added and 60 fellowships to nationals from 48 develop- 4,736 renewals under the Agreement’s Nice and ing countries in copyright, in addition to individuals Stockholm Acts. Registrations and renewals recommended by various organizations. In the in- therefore totalled 13,697, compared to 13,043 in dustrial property sector, 22 countries-including 1984. The total number of changes recorded in the seven developing countries-three intergovernmental International Register of Marks was 15,610, as organizations and two non-governmental organiza- compared with 17,501 in 1984. tions provided individual and group training. Con- cerning copyright, 12 countries (seven developing) Copyright and neighbouring rights and one national organization provided such Activities in copyright and neighbouring rights training. included the convening, jointly with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Industrial property Organization, of a group of experts on the The first consultative meeting on the revision of copyright aspects of protecting computer software the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial (Geneva, February/March), an expert group on Property took place at Geneva in June 1985, to revise the copyright aspects of direct broadcasting by the Convention by introducing new provisions and satellite (Paris, March), and a committee