WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
IP/C/W/582/Add.6 
29 October 2012 
 (12-5901) 
Council for Trade-Related Aspects of 
Intellectual Property Rights Original:   English 
 
 
 
TECHNICAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES: 
INFORMATION FROM MEMBERS 
 
UNITED STATES 
 
Addendum 
   The following communication, dated 23 October 2012, is being circulated at the request of 
the delegation of the United States. 
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 1. Various US government agencies provide technical assistance and capacity building in the 
area of intellectual property rights (IPR) to assist members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) 
in their efforts to implement the Agreement on Tr ade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights 
(TRIPS).  These US government agencies work together to leverage their respective skills to meet the 
objectives of the technical assistance and capacity bu ilding projects.  US government agencies also 
work in partnership with international inte rgovernmental organizations, including the World 
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Asso ciation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the 
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperati on (APEC) and others in planni ng and delivering IPR-related 
technical assistance and capacity building programmes.    2. The programmes that the US government provides cover a range of IPR topics, including: 
 Protection and management of intellectual property; 
 administration of IP offices and human res ource development related to IP office 
administration; 
 building effective IPR border enforcement mechanisms; 
 effective adjudication of IP cases, includi ng transparency in decision-making;  
 country-specific methodologies for investig ating and prosecuting IPR criminal cases; 
 conducting searches and law enforcement techniques; 
 anti-counterfeiting, including in the area of counterfeit pharmaceutical and medical; 
 advanced computer forensics to track down, arrest and prosecute IP criminals;  and 
 public education and consumer awareness of th e importance of IP protection, innovation, 
creativity, and enforcement. IP/C/W/582/Add.6 
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  3. The US Government agencies and agency subdivis ions that provide IPR technical assistance 
include: 
 Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) 
 US Agency for International Development (USAID) 
 US Copyright Office of the Library of Congress (USCO) 
 US Department of Agriculture (USDA) 
 US Department of Commerce (DOC), including through: 
  Commercial Law Development Programme (CLDP); 
  International Trade Administration (ITA);  and 
US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). 
 US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including through: 
  Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP);  and 
  US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 
 US Department of Justice (DOJ), including through: 
  Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS); 
  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI);  and 
  Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training (OPDAT) 
 US Department of State (DOS), including through: 
 Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs (EEB);  and 
 Bureau of International Narc otics and Law Enforcement (INL) 
 US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) 
 
4. The table included in this report provides a non-exhaustive summary of the technical 
cooperation activities that these agencies provi ded from 1 October 2011  to 3 August 2012. 
5. Further information is available on the US  Government’s Global Intellectual Property 
Education Training Progra mme Database located at http://www.usipr.gov/ .  The Global Intellectual 
Property Education Database is maintained by agencies of the United States Government that provide 
training and technical assistance relating to protecting and enforcing IPR. 
6. Programme participants included officials of national IP offices, judicial officials, 
police/investigators,  prosecutors, customs officials, officials from health ministries, officials from 
technology transfer agencies, and officials from co nsumer protection agencies, representatives of 
academic institutions, students, and representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).   
 
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  Date(s) Participating 
Country(s) Programme Description Venue Sponsor(s) 
10-11 Oct. 
2011 India Regional: IP Symposium for Micro, Small 
and Medium Enterprises New Delhi, 
India USPTO 
14 Oct. 2011 Paraguay Department of State (DoS) International 
Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP) Best Practices in the Reporting of IPR Issues:  A 
Project for Paraguay USPTO 
Alexandria, Virginia, 
USA 
(USPTO) DOS/ 
USPTO 
17 Oct. 2011 India FICCI Industry Consultation on “MIB’s 
Task Force Recommendations on Piracy” Mumbai, 
India USPTO 
18-21 Oct. 
2011 Russia Patent Examiners' Exchange Programme 
with Rospatent USPTO USPTO 
18 Oct. 2011 Argentina International J udicial Academy Seminar USPTO  USPTO 
19 Oct. 2011 Mali Workshop for Malian Customs to Prevent 
the Entry of Counterfeit Goods Bamako, 
Mali CLDP 
25 Oct. 2011 China Guangdong IP Office Visit USPTO USPTO 
27 Oct. 2011 China Zhejian Provincial IP Office Visit  USPTO  USPTO 
28 Oct. 2011 China IP Office of Guangzhou Municipality Visit USPTO USPTO 
31 Oct. 2011 China Cardozo Law School State Intellectual 
Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO) Programme 2011 USPTO SIPO/ 
USPTO 
2 Nov. 2011 China SIPO Examiners with John Marshall Law 
School USPTO  SIPO/ 
USPTO 
7-10 Nov. 
2011 Russia US Study Visit for Russian Judges  New York 
City, NY USPTO 
9-10  Nov. 
2011 Ukraine, 
Georgia, 
Romania, 
Armenia  United Nations Economic Commission for 
Europe (UNECE) subregional capacity 
building conference on economic aspects of 
IP Chisinau, 
Moldova USPTO/ 
UNECE 
10-11 Nov. 
2011 Tunisia Institut National de la Normalisation et de la 
Propriété Industrielle (INNORPI)  - USPTO 
Office to Office Programme Tunis, 
Tunisia USPTO 
14-15 Nov. 
2011 Algeria Intellectual Property Protection and 
Promotion: US and Algerian Experiences Algiers, 
Algeria USPTO 
17 Nov. 2011 Nigeria, Togo, 
Burkina Faso Seminar on Fighting Counterfeiting and 
Piracy Burkina 
Faso USPTO, 
USDoJ, USDHS, 
France IP/C/W/582/Add.6 
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  Date(s) Participating 
Country(s) Programme Description Venue Sponsor(s) 
17-18 Nov. 
2011 Burkina Faso, 
Central African 
Republic, Chad,  
Congo, Mali, Senegal, Togo Geographical Indications: Providing 
Protection through a Trademark System Yaounde, 
Cameroon OAPI/USP
TO/CLDP 
18 Nov. 2011 China Shanghai Municipal Government Delegation USPTO  USPTO 
23 Nov. 2011 Turkey DoS IVLP - IP Ri ghts in the United States USPTO  USPTO 
28 Nov.- 
1 Dec. 2011 Israel, Egypt, 
Canada, Brazil, 
Republic of 
Korea (Korea), 
Russia, India, Spain Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and 
International Searching 
Authority/International Preliminary 
Examination Authority (ISA/IPEA) 
Programme USPTO USPTO 
29-30 Nov. 
2011 Brazil, 
Paraguay, Peru, 
Argentina, Chile INL/USPTO Tri-Border and 2 Border IPR 
Enforcement Training Programme Foz do 
Iguacu, 
Brazil DOS/ 
USPTO 
30 Nov. 2011 China Shanghai Delegation Visit USPTO USPTO 
5 Dec. 2011 Nepal IPR Policy Dialogue and Technical 
Workshop Kathmandu, 
Nepal USPTO, 
USDoS, USAID 
5-7 Dec. 2011 Portugal, Japan, 
China, Korea, Switzerland Annual Meeting for the Expanded 
Trademark Trilateral USPTO USPTO 
6-9 Dec. 2011 Korea Research and Development IP 2011 for 
Invention Examiners from the Washington Intellectual Property Academy (WIPA) USPTO  USPTO 
8-14 Dec. 
2011 Korea National Research Foundation (NRF) and 
Korean-American Scientists and Engineers 
Association (KSEA) Research and 
Development IP Programme USPTO USPTO 
9 Dec. 2011 China Visit by Vi ce Minister Fu Shuang, State 
Administration for Industry and Commerce USPTO  USPTO 
12 Dec. 2011 China Zhejiang Delegation of China USPTO USPTO 
15 Dec. 2011 China IP Programme for Ministry of Commerce of 
the People's Republic of China USPTO USPTO  IP/C/W/582/Add.6 
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  Date(s) Participating 
Country(s) Programme Description Venue Sponsor(s) 
11-13 Jan. 
2012 Brunei, 
Indonesia,  
Lao P.D.R., 
Malaysia, Philippines, 
Thailand, 
Singapore,  
Viet Nam Regional: Association of Southeast Asian 
Nations (ASEAN) Workshop on Trademark  
Examination Phnom 
Penh,  
Cambodia USPTO 
17-19 Jan. 
2012 Bolivia, China, 
Dominican Republic, 
United 
Kingdom, Greece, Japan, 
Jordan, Kenya, 
Lebanon Malaysia, 
Mexico, 
Paraguay, Peru, 
Philippines, 
South Africa, Korea, St Kitts 
and Nevis, 
Thailand,  Viet Nam Survey of IPR Co urts USPTO USPTO 
2 Feb. 2012 Korea Seoul National University USPTO USPTO 
3 Feb. 2012 China Delegation of ChongQing IP Office, China USPTO USPTO 
3 Feb. 2012 China SIPO Enforcement Programme USPTO USPTO 
14-16 Feb. 
2012 Thailand Meeting with Thai Delegation USPTO USPTO 
29 Feb. 2012 Canada, Korea, 
Romania, France, Qatar, 
China, Sweden, 
India, Chinese Taipei, 
Argentina, 
Mongolia, Japan, India, 
Russia, Croatia, 
Turkey, Hong Kong, China State Department Foreign Press Centre Visit 
to USPTO USPTO USPTO 
29 Feb.- 
1 March 2012 Finland Visit by the Finnish Patent Office USPTO USPTO IP/C/W/582/Add.6 
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  Date(s) Participating 
Country(s) Programme Description Venue Sponsor(s) 
11-13 Jan. 
2012 Cambodia, 
Lao P.D.R.  Workshop on Trademark Examination  Phnom 
Penh, 
Cambodia   USPTO 
6-7 March 
2012 Mali Workshop on Intellectual Property Mali CLDP 
12-16 March 
2012 Brunei, 
Cambodia, Indonesia, 
Malaysia, 
Philippines, 
Singapore, 
Thailand,  Viet Nam ASEAN/USPTO IPR Enforcement 
Workshop USPTO ASEAN/ 
USPTO 
13-16 March 2012 Iraq Patent Examination USPTO CLDP/ 
USPTO 
15 March 2012 China IVLP/USPTO Intell ectual Property Rights 
for the People’s Republic of China USPTO DOS/USPT
O 
15 March 
2012 Georgia US DOC CLDP US Consultations on 
Collective Management of Copyright and 
Related Rights USPTO CLDP/ 
USPTO 
20-23 March 2012 Kenya, Sri 
Lanka, Egypt, 
Fiji, Bolivia, 
Nepal, 
Moldova, Lao P.D.R., 
Pakistan, Peru General IPR Enforcement USPTO USPTO 
27 March 
2012 Korea US Korea IP/Trade Relations USPTO USPTO 
27-30 March 
2012 Burkina Faso, 
Congo, Egypt, 
Jamaica, Kuwait, 
Uganda, 
Yemen, Georgia, 
Thailand, 
Mexico, Philippines, 
Mauritius,  
Viet Nam Madrid Protocol Implementation and 
Administration Programme USPTO USPTO 
2-6 April 
2012 Sri Lanka Seminar on IP Property Rights for Members 
of the Sri Lankan Judiciary USPTO USPTO  IP/C/W/582/Add.6 
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  Date(s) Participating 
Country(s) Programme Description Venue Sponsor(s) 
3-5 April 
2012 Czech Republic, 
Romania, 
Bulgaria, 
Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, 
Hungary IP and Innovation Conference Budapest, 
Hungary USPTO 
10-17 April 
2012 Indonesia Regional Five City Programme Enforcement 
of IP rights against Trade in Counterfeit 
Goods Jakarta, 
Indonesia USPTO 
12 April 2012 Kazakhstan, 
Russia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, 
Moldova, 
Azebaijan Special American Business Internship 
Training (SABIT) Programme -  Intellectual Property Rights USPTO USPTO 
16 April 2012 Korea Korean IP Research and Development 
Training USPTO USPTO 
18-20 April 
2012 Brunei, 
Cambodia, Lao, 
P.D.R., Malaysia, 
Philippines, 
Singapore, Thailand,  
Viet Nam Regional ASEAN Workshop on 
Enforcement of IP Righ ts Against Trade in 
Counterfeit Jakarta, 
Indonesia USPTO 
23-24 April 
2012 Jordan Combating the Threat of Counterfeit 
Medicine Amman, 
Jordan USPTO 
23-27 April 
2012 Malaysia, 
Thailand, Uruguay, 
Zimbabwe,  
Sri Lanka, India, France, 
Italy, Canada, 
Croatia, Peru, Brazil, Kenya, 
United 
Kingdom, Japan, Malaysia Plant Variety Protection under the 
International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants  (UPOV) 
Convention - Train the Trainers USPTO UPOV/ 
USPTO 
24 April 2012 Brazil International Judicial Academy - 
Government Regulation and Justice Seminar for Judges from Brazil USPTO USPTO 
26 April 2012 India World IP Day 2012-Conference on National 
IP Policy New Delhi, 
India USPTO IP/C/W/582/Add.6 
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  Date(s) Participating 
Country(s) Programme Description Venue Sponsor(s) 
8-10 May 
2012 Cameroon, 
Egypt, Guyana, 
Liberia, 
Malaysia, Malawi, 
Namibia, 
Philippines, 
Zimbabwe, 
Ghana WIPO-USPTO Judicial Colloquium on 
Intellectual Property Rights USPTO WIPO/ 
USPTO 
10-11 May 2012 Estonia, 
Finland, Latvia, 
Lithuania, 
Sweden Judicial and Prosecutorial Best Practices Riga, Latvia USPTO 
14-15 May 
2012 Iraq Patent Examination Programme USPTO CLDP/ 
USPTO 
21-25 May 
2012 Brunei, 
Cambodia, 
Indonesia, 
Lao P.D.R., Malaysia, 
Philippines, 
Singapore,  Viet Nam Regional: Roundtable Advanced Judicial 
Seminar on IP Enforcement Bangkok, 
Thailand DOS/ 
USPTO 
25 May 2012 India Workshop on IP Rights - Focus on 
Geographical Indications for Women in Traditional Sectors Jaipur, India USPTO 
9-13 June 
2012 Bhutan, Brunei, 
Cambodia, China, Fiji, 
India, Indonesia, 
Lao P.D.R., Malaysia, 
Mongolia, 
Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, 
Philippines, 
Korea, Singapore, 
Thailand, 
Viet Nam Policy Dialogue on Patents Work-Sharing 
Initiatives Singapore USPTO 
22 June- 
4 July 2012 India India Judicial Capacity Building Programme 
on IPR USPTO USPTO 
25-28 June 
2012 Korea Research and Development IP for Invention 
Examiners  USPTO WIPA/ 
USPTO  IP/C/W/582/Add.6 
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  Date(s) Participating 
Country(s) Programme Description Venue Sponsor(s) 
23 July- 
3 Aug 2012 Argentina, 
Belgium, Brazil, 
Bulgaria, China, 
Dominican Republic, India, 
Italy, Japan, 
Korea, Mexico, 
Nigeria, 
Philippines, Poland, Russia, 
Sweden, 
Switzerland, Ukraine, 
Cameroon, 
Indonesia, Czech Republic, 
Portugal WIPO - US Advanced Summer School on 
Trademarks USPTO WIPO/ 
USPTO 
24 July 2012 Brazil International Judicial Academy - Brazil 
Programme USPTO USPTO 
26-27 July 
2012 Korea Hongik University Invention Education 
Programme USPTO USPTO 
 
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