The logo of APEC Vietnam 2017 in Khanh Hoa province (Photo: VNA)Khanh Hoa (VNA) – The APEC Intellectual Property Rights Experts’ Groupcommenced its 44th meeting (IPEG 44) in Nha Trang city, the south centralprovince of Khanh Hoa, on February 18.
The meeting, chaired by the National Office ofIntellectual Property of Vietnam (NOIP), drew more than 100 delegates from the21 APEC member economies. The Vietnamese delegation was led by NOIP DeputyDirector Le Ngoc Lam.
The agenda surrounds the common targets of theAPEC cooperation in IP, including increasing dialogue about IP policies, anddiscussing measures to promote the effectiveness of the IP protection systemand to implement the WTO’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of IP.
The IPEG 44 looked into efforts to ensure the effectiveimplementation of APEC Collective Action Plan on IP to achieve the Bogor Goalson trade and investment liberalisation by 2020.
It also discussed the development of IP manpowerfor developing and underdeveloped economies, the enhancement of communicationactivities to raise public awareness of IP, and the encouragement of using,exploiting and commercialising IP.
On the sidelines of the event, the Vietnamesedelegation had bilateral meetings with some APEC economies like the Republic ofKorea and the US to discuss IP cooperation plans.
The IPEG 44 is scheduled to wrap up on February19.
Also on February 18, seven other meetings andworkshops took place in Nha Trang, touching upon such issues as emergencyresponse capacity, illegal logging, policy cooperation in science-technology,and promoting the social commitment to corruption fight.
They were activities on the first day within theframework of the first APEC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM 1), which will lastuntil March 3.
APEC Vietnam 2017 takes the theme of “CreatingNew Dynamism, Fostering A Shared Future”. Vietnam joined APEC in 1998 and hostedAPEC events in 2006.-VNA
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