WIPO’s First Training for Members of the Judiciary in Egypt
September 30, 2022
The WIPO Academy concluded the first phase of a training program on intellectual property (IP) for more than 300 members of the Egyptian judiciary. On the margins of his visit to Egypt, WIPO Director General Daren Tang awarded the top 10 performing judges in the course a certificate of achievement at an awards ceremony held at the Ministry of Justice of Egypt on September 19, 2022.
The training program for the Egyptian judiciary was launched following discussions between WIPO Director General Daren Tang and Counselor Omar Marwan, the Egyptian Minister of Justice in March 2022.
A course for judges by judges
Participants completed the tailor-made hybrid / distance learning (DL) course on IP for judges, which was delivered by three expert judges in the capacity of tutors headed by Egyptian Judge Bassem Awad. The course is a pre-requisite for further advanced training by WIPO in collaboration with the Copyright Sector and Division for Arab Countries. The tailor-made course was finalized with a record-breaking 91% completion rate.
Through instructionally designed learning materials supported by 56 real-world cases, the course covered a range of topics including:
- copyright and related rights of artistic works in the entertainment industry in the context of the digital revolution and the spread of the internet ;
- the challenges of copyright principles in the software development industry;
- trademarks and issues arising from domain-name squatting; and
- the relationship between patents and advances in biotechnology and genetics with regards to the long-standing practices of courts.
