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International Patent Law & Trade Committee
The Committee focuses on developing and proposing IPO positions (with other committees and IPO members), awareness (white papers and education) and monitoring developments in:
- Intellectual property in the context of trade, such providing comments to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) for the annual Special 301 Report, bilateral trade agreements (e.g., USMCA/NAFTA), and WTO;
- WIPO and international patent filing including improving the cost efficiency and administrative burden of international patent portfolios;
- Genetic resources and traditional knowledge to develop legal frameworks for access and benefit sharing that will lead to increased international conservation and to effective utilization of genetic resources and traditional knowledge; and
- Procedural harmonization initiatives, including those in the areas of Global Assignment to streamline recording ownership of intellectual property rights around the world, E-signatures projects to explore legal pathways for IP5 offices to broadly accept use of electronic signatures by applicants provided that certain minimum requirements are met, Global Identifier (Global ID), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), with focus on leveraging use of AI to facilitate the patent grant process.
Staff Liaison:Astrid Roe, Intellectual Property Owners Association
Members
- Gang ChenYangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.