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FTAA.ngip/com/20
May 29, 2003

Original: Spanish
Translation: FTAA Secretariat

FTAA - NEGOTIATING GROUP ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Twentieth Meeting

Puebla, 26 – 28 May 2003

PRESS COMMUNIQUE

The Twentieth Meeting of the FTAA Negotiating Group on Intellectual Property (NGIP) was held in Puebla from 26 to 28 May 2003. The NGIP Chair, Mr. Orlando Jorge Mera, of the Dominican Republic, presided over the meeting.

The Group’s discussion followed the approved agenda (attached). The NGIP addressed all of the items on the agenda.

Pursuant to the mandate of the Quito Ministerial Meeting, the NGIP discussed and made progress in Part II, Intellectual Property Rights, Section 3, Copyright and Related Rights; Section 4 on Folklore; Section 6, on Traditional Knowledge and Access to Genetic Resources; Section 11,. Unfair Competition; Section 12., Anti-Competitive Practices in Contractual Licenses, and Part III, Enforcement.

The Chair reported on the distribution of two new contributions on intellectual property that had been received since the Nineteenth Meeting of the NGIP, in response to the open invitation to civil society.

Delegates from the following 17 countries were present: Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico, Panamá, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, United Status, and Venezuela.

The NGIP will hold its next meeting from 24 to 27 June 2003.

A list of government contacts may be found at: http://www.ftaa-alca.org/contacts/contpts_e.asp

For more information on the NGIP, visit http://www.ftaa-alca.org/ngroups/ngprop_e.asp
 


FTAA – Negotiating Group on Intellectual Property Rights

Twentieth Meeting

Puebla, 26 – 28 May 2003

AGENDA

1. Presentation of New Proposals

2. Reports from other FTAA Entities

3. Submissions from Civil Society

4. Consideration of the draft chapter on intellectual property rights with a view to achieving consensus on the greatest possible number of issues; in particular in relation to:

Part II. Intellectual Property Rights
Section 3. Copyright and Related Rights
[Section 4. Protection of [Expressions of] Folklore]
[Section 6. [Traditional Knowledge and Access to Genetic Resources under the Intellectual Property Framework][Relationship Between the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property, as well as the Relationship Between Access to Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property]
[Section 11. Unfair Competition]
[Section 12. Anti-Competitive Practices in Contractual Licenses]

Part III. Enforcement

5. Implications of the different ways of incorporating obligations from other international instruments into the FTAA Chapter on Intellectual Property

6. Other Business

-Press Communiqué, Chair's Summary Report
-Other issues
 
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