WIPO is convening a Roundtable entitled “Building Community Capacity: a Roundtable on Practical Initiatives on Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions, Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources,” which will take place at the headquarters of WIPO in Geneva, from December 10 to 12, 2007.
The Roundtable is an informal, practically oriented event that responds to the strong level of interest expressed by many national authorities and community representatives in sharing experience and developing dialogue and cooperation on practical initiatives to build capacity for the appropriate protection of intellectual property and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs), traditional knowledge (TK) and genetic resources (GR). It follows in the tradition of community consultation that has been part of WIPO’s program in this domain since its inception with the first fact-finding consultations dating back to 1998 and 1999.
The program and further details will be progressively posted on the WIPO website at: http://www.wipo.int/tk/en/. Participation is open to any interested party subject to prior registration by email to grtkf@wipo.int.