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Director General of WIPO to Visit India From 7 to 10 February 1999

Geneva, February 5, 1999
Press Releases PR/1999/155

The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Dr. Kamil Idris, will travel to India from 7 to 10 February 1999 on his first official visit since he assumed leadership of the organization.

The Director General will meet with leading officials involved in intellectual property, including the Minister of Human Resource Development, Dr. Murli Monohar Joshi and the Minister of Industry, Mr. Sikander Bakht. He will also meet with representatives of industry, attorneys, and inventors at the Institute for Intellectual Property Development in New Delhi.

The Director General and his delegation will also travel to Hyderabad, India's hub of high-technology work. In Hyderabad, Dr. Idris will meet with senior government officials including the Chief Minister, Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu. Talks are also scheduled with the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, Dr. Rangarajan. The WIPO delegation will also visit Hi-tech City and the Indian Institute of Information Technology.

In Mumbai, the Director General and his delegation will meet with Mrs. Leeladhar Dake, Minister of Industry, Law and Justice, Government of Maharashtra, some leading personalities from the Indian film industry and officers of the trademark registry of India.

India, the country with the world's second largest population, became a member of WIPO in 1975 and is currently party to six treaties administered by WIPO, namely, WIPO Convention (1975), Paris Convention (1998), Berne Convention (1928), Patent Cooperation Treaty (1998), Phonograms Convention (1975) and Nairobi Treaty (1983).

India's recent accession to two key treaties was welcomed by WIPO and the intellectual property community. The Paris Convention lays down basic international principles that govern the protection of patents, trademarks and industrial designs. The PCT provides for the filing of a single international application in one language, having effect in each of the countries party to the PCT (100 member states at 31 December 1998) which the applicant designates in his application for patent protection. The PCT simplifies procedures and reduces costs for owners of new inventions who apply for patent protection in multiple countries.

WIPO has provided extensive assistance - both technical and legal advice - to India since the country joined WIPO in 1975. WIPO is currently involved in a program to train and advise Indian users of the PCT. In the area of technical cooperation, WIPO completed two major assistance projects in 1996. One project led to the creation of a nation-wide patent information system. The other related to upgrading and modernization of India's trademarks administration and protection system. Till last year, WIPO officials had undertaken 80 advisory missions on various aspects of intellectual property to India. WIPO also helped Indian authorities draft the Copyright Act, which is one of the most modern copyright laws of its kind.

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