Technical assistance - How to get it right.

28th March 2002, a one day conference in Geneva, Switzerland

Provisional agenda

08:00 Registration

08:30 Opening
Dr. Bernard Pecoul (Director of the Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Médecins sans Frontières - confirmed)

Keynote address

09:00 - 10:30 Panel I
Technical assistance to ensure the implementation of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health

Chair: Mr. Rachid Kaukab (South Centre - confirmed)

Speaker:
Dr. Kamil Idris (Director General - WIPO - invited)
WIPO's technical assistance and the implementation of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health

Panellists:
Mr. Adrian Otten (Director of the Intellectual Property Division of the Secretariat of the WTO - invited)
Outstanding issues of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health

Dr. Jonathan Quick (Director of WHO's Department of Essential Drugs and Other Medicines - confirmed)
What role the WHO plays in the implementation of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health?

Mr. Francisco Pessanha Cannabrava (Second Secretary - Permanent Mission of Brazil to WTO and the United Nations - confirmed)
Intellectual property legislation: the needs of developing countries

Ms. Catherine Gavin (Legal Advisor - Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Médecins sans Frontières - confirmed)
Intellectual property law and public health in francophone Africa

Prof. Peter Drahos (Regulatory Institutions Network (Regnet) - invited)
Does WIPO's mandate to promote intellectual property protection" stand in the way of providing appropriate technical assistance

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Panel II
Developing countries perspectives on technical assistance;
What technical assistance on the question of production for export?

Chair: Ms. Celine Charveriet (OXFAM, confirmed)

Speaker:
Prof. Carlos Correa (University of Buenos Aires - invited)
What needs to be done to implement §6 and §7 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health?

Panellists:
Ambassador B. G. Chidyausiku (Permanent Representative - Permanent Mission of Zimbabwe to the United Nations and WTO - confirmed)
Technical assistance to implement the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health: what are the needs?

Mr. Nathan Irumba (Permanent Mission of Uganda to WTO - invited)
The Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health and the Ugandan IP law

Mr. Pornchai Danvivathana (Minister Counsellor - Permanent Mission of Thailand to WTO - confirmed)
What are the needs for technical assistance, from an Asian developing country's perspective?

Ms. Cecilia Oh (Third World Network - invited)
Intellectual property protection in developing countries

Mr. D.G. Shah (Secretary General - Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance - invited)
Perspectives of developing countries' generic industry

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Panel III
Implementation of legislation on compulsory licensing

Chair: Mr. Leo Palma, Advisory Centre on WTO law (confirmed)

Speakers:
Mr. James P. Love (Director - Consumer Project on Technology - confirmed)
How to build a fast, cheap, and fair procedure for issuing a compulsory license?

Panellists:
Prof. Carlos Correa (University of Buenos Aires - invited)
What should be in a model provision for compulsory licensing?

Dr. Harvey E. Bale Jr. (Director-General - IFPMA - invited):
The industry's position on compensation models for compulsory licensing

Mr. Dominic Keating (Intellectual Property Attaché - US Mission to the WTO -confirmed):
What is the US practice in terms of procedure for governmental use?

Mr. Christopher Garrison (Legal Advisor - Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Médecins sans Frontières - invited):
Models of compulsory licensing and governmental use

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30 Panel IV
Recommendations for technical assistance

Chair: Ms. Ellen 't Hoen, (Coordinator Globalisation Project - Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Médecins sans Frontières - confirmed)

Speakers:
Mr. Francis Gurry (Assistant Director General - WIPO - invited)
How to apply the lessons from the WIPO's alternative dispute resolution procedures to compulsory licensing or to other patent disputes?

Panellists:
Prof. Fred Abbott (Florida State University - confirmed)
What can be learnt from alternative dispute resolution procedures?

Mr. Pedro Roffe (Project Director - Office of the Secretary-General of UNCTAD - confirmed)
The need to adapt intellectual property systems in developing countries

Mr. Falou Samb (Mission of Senegal to WTO - invited)
The developing countries perspectives on the practical implementation of §6 and §7

Mr. Otto Genee (Deputy Permanent Representative - Mission of the Netherlands to WTO - confirmed)
The need for a consistent WIPO and WTO policy to implement the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS agreement and Public Health

17:30 Closure of the meeting
What are the next steps?
Ms. Ellen 't Hoen (Coordinator Globalisation Project - Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Médecins sans Frontières - confirmed)