Contribution by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

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Contribution by the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO)
Document No GSC16bis-IPR-11
Source WIPO
Contact Tomoko Miyamoto
GSC Session IPR Working Group
Agenda Item 4.10

• Tomoko Miyamoto
• Head, Patent Law Section,Patent Law Division,
  WIPO

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World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

• One of the UN specialized agencies
• Mission to promote innovation and creativity
  for the economic, social and cultural development
  of all countries, through a balanced and
  effective international intellectual property
  system
• 185 Member States
• UN Millennium Development Goals and WIPO
  Development Agenda

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World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

• Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP)
• Development of the international patent system
• PATENTSCOPE (patent information portal)
• IP and Competition
• WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center

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SCP

• Member States forum IGOs and NGOs as observers
• Patents and standards discussed from 03/2009 to
  10/2010
• A preliminary study by the Secretariat (document
  SCP/13/2)
• Issues inherent in patented technologies in
  standards (patent hold-up)
• Changing ways of innovation ? challenges faced by
  the patent system
• Discussions
• Cooperation with other international orgs

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Patent information

• Cooperation between SDOs and patent offices
• Improve patent quality and transparency
• WIPO PATENTSCOPE
• http//patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/search.jsf
• International applications filed under the PCT
• National/regional phase information from 46
  offices
• Patent collections from around 30 national/
  regional patent offices
• Easier access to patent information in various
  languages
• Legal status data

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IP and competition

• One of the Development Agenda Projects
• Research
• Analysis of the economic/legal literature on the
  effects of IP rights as a barrier to entry
• Refusals to license the legitimate right and
  abuse
• Patent Pools 
• IP, competition and smartphone industry
  (empirical study)
• Promote cooperation between an IP authority and a
  competition authority

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WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center

• Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) service
• Suited to cross-border disputes
• Expert determination procedure
• 25 of the cases are in the ICT area
• ADR services adapted to specific business sector
• Ex. Mediation and expedited arbitration rule for
  film and media

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• Thank you
• Tomoko.miyamoto_at_wipo.int

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