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Information and support provided by the Office to applicants regarding filing on paper and/or e-filing (instructions, seminars, etc.) - URLs
In a bid to keep on sensitizing users of the ARIPO systems on the advantages of filing applications through the ARIPO route, the Office undertook a number of missions and users’ meetings, namely:
a) 9th COMESA Business Partnerships Forum and Linkages Fair, from February 21 to 23, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
b) First International Patent Forum, from March 18 to 19, London, United Kingdom
c) Canada Africa Business Summit from September 15 to 18, Toronto, Canada
Availability of the application dossier in electronic form
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Students from various Universities and R&D centres, in member states continue to seek and use the services and facilities of the ARIPO Office Library for information in their research work free of charge. These can be walk in users or those who wish to be assisted through the virtual library.
A Workshop on Technology and Innovation Support Center (TISC) at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) on February 12, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Education and training: training courses, e-learning modules (URLs), seminars, exhibitions, etc.
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- Visit to the African Union and the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office from February 24 to 25, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Bilateral Meetings between ARIPO and The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM)
- Visit of the Vice Minister of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) of the Peoples’ Republic of China to ARIPO, September 8
- MoUs signed with strategic partners
The World Intellectual Property Congress of AIPPI from September 14 to 17, Toronto, Canada
The 53rd and 54th Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of the WIPO;
- The 4th session of Committee on WIPO Standards (CWS) from May 12 to 16
- The 7th Session of the PCT Working Group from June 10 to 13;
- WIPO IPC Revision Working Group, October 27 to 31
Meetings at the World Trade Organization (WTO)
In furtherance of Article VI of the Lusaka Agreement the following were executed in the year 2014:
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