As many IP professionals celebrated World IP Day on 26 April, it is important to reflect on how intellectual property has benefitted so many entities. This year’s focus was on SMEs, which have more power that they realise when it comes to their IP assets.
Published May 1, 2021, 5:00 AM
The Philippines, through the Permanent Representative to Geneva Ambassador Evan Garcia deposited on April 28, 2021 its Instrument of Accession to the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances (BTAP). Ambassador Garcia personally handed the instrument of accession to World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Director General Darren Tang at WIPO Headquarters.
“With the accession of the Philippines to the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances, the Philippines guarantees the expansion of the protection given to its musicians, singers, actors, and performers, providing them a uniform and effective umbrella of protection critical in an ever-shifting world,” Ambassador Garcia said in his statement.
Ambassador Evan Garcia (left) deposits the PH Instrument of Accession to the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances to WIPO Director General Daren Tang (right).
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Patents are a method for legally recognising innovation in a product or service and their growth in the Emirates is in line with the nation s own rise in the World Intellectual Property Organisation s Global Innovation Index rankings. The UAE climbed two places in the 2020 index to 34th globally and third in the Northern Africa and Western Asia region.
The UAE has signed more than ten agreements with international institutions that support intellectual property rights, including the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure and the Strasbourg Agreement on the International Patent Classification.
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