TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT-ORIENTED IP POLICY: ADVANCING THE REFORM AGENDA

18th – 21st September 2003 • Co-organised with UNCTAD

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The Bellagio Series on Development and Intellectual Property Policy

In October 2002, the UNCTAD-ICTSD Project on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and Sustainable Development launched the Series of Bellagio Dialogues on Intellectual Property and Development in response to concerns that certain trends in the formulation of international intellectual property (IP) policies may be detrimental to economic, technological, social and cultural development as well as poverty eradication.

The Series has gathered a diverse group of specialists, government experts and members of international and non-governmental organizations that meet in their personal capacity to assess current international trends on intellectual property and development. They are aimed at strategic discussions and the identification concrete recommendations that could contribute to the formulation of development-oriented IP policies. Two Dialogues have been organized since 2002.

First Dialogue
Towards Development-Oriented Intellectual Property Policy: Setting the Agenda for the Next Five Years (November 2002)

The future of IP in the multilateral trading system;

The challenge of new treaty development and harmonization;

The promotion effective national policy formulation;

The integration IP policies in development strategies; Second Dialogue
Towards Development-Oriented Intellectual Property Policy: Advancing the Reform Agenda (October 2003)

Latest developments in the IP field;

TRIPS-plus standards and parallel multilateral, regional and bilateral negotiations;

Technical assistance in the field of IP and development;

Transfer of technology and technological capacity building. The organizers have considered useful to make available all the relevant material of the Dialogues including agendas, participant lists, background papers, conclusions, and informal reports of the meetings. One outcome of the Dialogues was the launching of the Frati Initiative with the view of initiating a process of follow-up and monitoring to the ideas and suggestions made during the Dialogue.

AGENDA

Thursday 18 SeptemberGeneral introduction by organizers: 9:00 - 9:30

Morning Session: 9:30 - 12:30

Module 1: Introductory remarks on recent international developments.

Key note speaker: Carlos Correa

Panelists: Leonardo Athayde, Ponchai Danvivathana, Ruth Okejedi, Geoff Tansey

Discussion

Afternoon Session: 1:30 - 6:00

Module 2: Presentation on TRIPS-plus standards and parallel multilateral, regional and bilateral negotiations: Managing the challenge of the intellectual property regime.

Key note speaker: Jerome Reichman

Panelists: Marino Porzio, Susan Villanueva, Selim Louafi, Charles Clift

Discussion session on TRIPS -plus standards
Friday 19 September

Morning Session: 9:00 - 12:30

Presentation on technical assistance on intellectual property rights.

Invited speaker: Tom Pengelly/Sisule Musungu

Panelists: Abdelatif Ahmed, Johanes Bernabe, Rosemary Wolson, Agnes Aggrey Orleans

Discussion session on technical assistance in intellectual property

Afternoon Session: 1:30 - 6:00

Presentation on transfer of technology and technological capacity building.

Invited speaker: Keith Maskus

Panelists: Khalil Hamdani, Faizal Izmail, Zulfiqar Ahmed Khan, Begoña Venero

Discussion session of technology transfer and technological capacity building
Saturday 20 September

Morning Session: 9:00 - 12:30

Module 3: Breaking into sub-groups (3)

Afternoon Session: 1:30 - 6:00

Module 4: Plenary session on overall conclusions of the informal discussion sessions
Sunday 21 September

Morning Session: 9:00 - 12:30

Adoption general conclusions

Participants

ARGENTINACarlos CORREA
Director, Maestría en Política y Gestión de la Ciencia y Tecnología,
Centro de Estudios Avanzados de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.

AUSTRALIA

Carolyn DEERE
Consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation.

BRAZIL

Leonardo ATHAYDE
Second Secretary, Permanent Mission of Brazil to the UN, Geneva.

CHILE

Marino PORZIO
IPRs practioner, private consultant
Senior Partner at Porzio, Rios & Associates.

Pedro ROFFE
Project Director, ICTSD-UNCTAD Project on IPRs and Development.

COLOMBIA

Ricardo MELENDEZ-ORTIZ
ICTSD Executive Director.

EGYPT

Ahmed ABDELATIF
Third Secretary, Permanente Mission of Egypt to the WTO, Geneva.

GHANA

Agnes AGGREY ORLEANS
Ambassador, Consultant.

KENYA

Sisule MUSUNGU
Project Officer, South Centre.

NIGERIA/USA

Ruth OKEDIJI
Edith Gaylord Harper Presidential Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law, USA.

PAKISTAN

Zulfiqar Ahmed KHAN
Attorney at Law Khursheed Khan & Associates, Lawyers - Intellectual Property Attorneys.

Kalilh HAMDANI
Deputy Director, Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development, UNCTAD.

PERU

Begoña VENERO
Vicepresidente de la Sala de Propiedad Intelectual de Indecopi.

PHILIPPINES

Johannes BERNABE
Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Philippines to the UN, Geneva.

Susan VILLANUEVA
Professorial Lecturer, University of the Philippines
Partner, Villaraza and Angangco Law Offices.

SOUTH AFRICA

Rosemary WOLSON
Intellectual Property Manager, University of Cape Town.

Faizel ISMAIL
Head of South African Delegation to the WTO, Geneva.

THAILAND

Pornchai DANVIVATHANA
Minister Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Thailand to the WTO, Geneva.

TUNISIA

Selim LOUAFI
Program Manager on Biodiversity and Intellectual Property Rights, Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales (IDDRI).

Tom PENGELLY
ICTSD Consultant.

Charles CLIFT
Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Department for International Development.

Geoff TANSEY
Writer and consultant, West Yorkshire.

USA

Jerome REICHMAN
Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law, School of Law - Duke University.

Keith MASKUS
Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Departements of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder.

VENEZUELA

David VIVAS EUGUI
Programme Manager, Intellectual Property, Technology and Services, ICTSD.