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One of the remarkable achievement of 2014 is the joining of São Tomé & Príncipe to ARIPO, through ratification of the Harare Protocol for the Protection of Patents, Utility Models and Industrial Designs. São Tomé & Príncipe became the 19th member State of ARIPO.
The groundbreaking ceremony to mark the commencement of the project of building the extension of ARIPO Headquarters and to lay the symbolic foundation stone was undertaken on Friday November 14, 2014 by the Chairman of the ARIPO Council of Ministers.
For 2014, the flagship program was the “ARIPO Roving Seminars” aiming at creating awareness on IP and ARIPO activities. The Roving Seminars which were held in Gambia, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Swaziland benefited 655 participants. The Roving Seminars undertaken by the ARIPO officials in the member States included technical missions to the IP Offices.
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v) The Gambia Office of the Registrar General from August 4 to 8, Banjul, The Gambia
The objectives of these technical missions were various and included to conduct practical training on processing of ARIPO applications (receipt, transmittal, filling in applications, notifications) under the Harare and Banjul Protocols; discussing challenges faced by the office in processing ARIPO applications in general and those applications designating the Member State with the responsible officers
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Availability of the application dossier in electronic form
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Article VI of the Lusaka Agreement which was adopted on December 9, 1976 on the creation of ARIPO mandates the Organization to “co-operate with Governments of States not members of the Organization and with organizations, institutions and bodies (…) which are desirous of assisting the Organization or its members in achieving the objectives of the Organization”. To that end the following activities were undertaken with strategic partners:
- 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)
The first Africa Innovation Summit from February 4 to 6, Praia, Cape Verde
- WIPO Inter-Regional Seminar on Developing National and Regional Approaches to Enhancing Innovation Support and Commercialization of Research and Development (R&D) Results and Patents from June 11 to 13, Casablanca, Morocco
- Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF 2014) from April 22 to 26, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
SMEs International Export 2014 from October 22 to 25, Harare, Zimbabwe
First Research and Intellectual EXPO from September 3 to 6, Harare, Zimbabwe
In furtherance of Article VI of the Lusaka Agreement the following were executed in the year 2014:
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