IP/C/W/614/Add.5  
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Consejo de los Aspectos de los Derechos de Propiedad 
Intelectual relacionados con el Comercio  Original:  inglés  
 
  ACTIVIDADES DE COOPE RACIÓN TÉCNICA : INFORMACIÓN  FACILITADA  
POR OTRAS ORGANIZACI ONES  INTERGUBERNAMENTALES  
ORGANIZACIÓN REGIONA L AFRICANA DE LA PRO PIEDAD INTELECTUAL ( ARIPO)  
Addendum  
En la reunión celebrada los días 7 y 8 de junio de 2016, el Consejo de los  ADPIC acordó invitar a 
las organizaciones intergubernamentales acreditadas como observadoras ante el Consejo a que 
actualizaran la información sobre sus programas de cooperación técnica y financiera relacionados 
con la aplicación del Acuerdo sobre los ADP IC. 
 
En el presente documento se reproduce la información recibida de la Organización Regional 
Africana de la Propiedad Industrial (ARIPO) en una comunicación de fecha 17 de octubre de 2016. 
 
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PROGRAMAS DE COOPERACIÓN TÉCNICA Y FINANCIERA RE LACIONADOS  
CON EL ACUERDO SOBRE LOS ADPIC  
1.  La Organización Regional Africana de la Propiedad Intelectual (ARIPO) se estableció 
el 9 de diciembre de 1976 en una conferencia diplomática celebrada en Lusaka (Zambia ). 
La ARIPO se creó con el objetivo de aunar los recursos de sus Estados miembros con miras a la 
promoción, la formulación y la armonización de las leyes y las políticas sobre la propiedad 
intelectual y de contribuir al desarrollo social, económico y tecnológico de sus Estados miembros . 
Hasta la fech a, la ARIPO cuenta con 19 Estados miembros : Botswana, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, 
Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, la República Unida de Tanzanía , Rwanda, Santo 
Tomé y Príncipe, Sierra Leona, Somalia, Sudán, Swazilandia, Uganda, Zambia y Zimbabwe . La 
Organización tiene su sede en Harare (República de Zimbabwe ). 
2.  En la reunión que celebró los días 8 y 9 de junio de 2010, el  Consejo de los ADPIC de la OMC 
otorgó a la ARIPO la condición de observador reunión por reunión . Desde entonces, el Consejo ha 
estado invitando a la ARIPO a asistir a sus reuniones . 
3.  En este documento se presenta un breve informe sobre los principales programas y actividades 
de cooperación llevados a cabo por la ARIPO en 2016 en relación  con el Acuerdo sobre los ADPIC y 
otros element os relativos a la propiedad intelectual, en respuesta a  la invitación formulada a 
la ARIPO el 27 de julio de  2016 por el Presidente del Consejo de los ADPIC de la OMC para  que 
proporcionara información actualizada sobre esas actividades.  
4.  De conformidad con  su mandato, establecido en su convenio constitutiv o (Acuerdo de Lusaka , 
de 9 de diciembre de  1976), la ARIPO organiza actividades y programas sola o junto con 
asociados , como la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI) . Esos programas y 
actividades tienen por objeto, principalmente, ofrecer asistencia a los Estados miembros de 
la ARIPO y a África en su conjunto en cuestiones relacionadas con  la propiedad intelectual . A este 
respecto una de las actividades más destacadas son los Seminarios It inerantes que la ARIPO lleva 
a cabo en los Estados miembros . El tema general de este año es : "Fomento de la creatividad y la 
innovación con miras al crecimiento y el desarrollo económico en África ". A fin de garantizar que IP/C/W/614/Add.5  
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  los Estados miembros se beneficie n plenamente de esos seminarios, la ARIPO les ofrece  la 
oportunidad de proponer esferas  de intervención de acuerdo con  sus necesidades en materia de 
propiedad intelectual en general, con inclusión de aspectos del Acuerdo sobre los ADPIC.  
5.  La siguiente matri z contiene  información detallada sobre las actividades de cooperación técnica 
y financiera llevadas a cabo por la ARIPO en relación con el Acuerdo sobre los ADPIC y otros 
elementos relativos a la propiedad intelectual ; se trata de  iniciativas de sensibiliz ación y 
formación, asistencia a oficinas nacionales de propiedad intelectual  y mejora del marco jurídico de 
la propiedad intelectual y de publicaciones relacionadas con la propiedad intelectual.  
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ANEXO1 
1  AWARENESS AND TRAINI NG INITIATIVES  
Activity  Location and date  Brief description  
National Workshop on the Patent Cooperation 
Treaty (PCT), Malawi  Blantyre, Malawi, 
25-26 January  2016 The workshop was organized by WIPO in cooperation with the Department of the Registrar General, 
Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Malawi. ARIPO provided a resource person to train the staff of 
the Malawi Intellectual Property Office on the application procedures as per its different protocols 
and provide technical assistance on Patent Drafting. The workshop  attracted participants from 
various Government Ministries, Universities and the Private Sector.  
WIPO/ZIPO National Seminar on Copyright 
and Related Rights, Zimbabwe  Harare, Zimbabwe, 
28-29 January  2016 The two -day Seminar was co -organized by WIPO and the  Zimbabwe Intellectual Property Office 
(ZIPO) in collaboration with ARIPO which provided the venue and facilitation of the Seminar. The 
objective of the Seminar was to train stakeholders on enforcement of copyright, licensing, 
challenges in the creative in dustry sector, amongst other issues relevant to the copyright -based 
industries.  
Seminar on the Patent Cooperation Treaty 
(PCT) in South Africa  Pretoria, South Africa, 
1-3 March  2016 The Seminar was organized by WIPO in cooperation with the Companies and I ntellectual Property 
Commission (CIPC) of South Africa for the benefit of 20 newly recruited CIPC patent examiners. 
ARIPO provided a resource person who trained the patent examiners on technical issues about 
examination as well as Patent Drafting among oth ers. 
National Workshop on the Patent Cooperation 
Treaty (PCT), Mozambique  Beira and Maputo, 
Mozambique, 
18-21 April 2016 The Seminar was organized by WIPO in cooperation with the Industrial Property Institute (IPI) of 
Mozambique. ARIPO provided a resource  person who presented  the procedures of ARIPO regional 
system for protection of patents and utility models. The ARIPO expert also trained the IP Office staff 
on patent drafting.  
National Seminar on the Patent Cooperation 
Treaty (PCT) in Rwanda  Kigali, Rwa nda, 
17-18 August  2016 The Seminar was organized by WIPO in cooperation with the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) for 
the benefit of users of the PCT in Rwanda. ARIPO provided a resource person who trained 
participants on  the procedures of ARIPO regional sys tem for protection of patents and utility 
models. The ARIPO expert also trained the IP Office staff on patent drafting.  
Sub-Regional Workshop on the Development 
and Effective Use of Intellectual Property 
Statistics for ARIPO Member States  Harare, 
14-16 September  2016 The Workshop was organized by WIPO, Japan Patent Office (JPO), in cooperation with ARIPO and 
the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe. Participants were drawn from ARIPO Member States. 
ARIPO urged participants who included Registrars General  to accurately keep, update and regularly 
provide IP statistics. Participants also learned how to use the IP data to holistically develop 
Intellectual Property (good planning, budgeting, etc.).  
                                                
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Activity  Location and date  Brief description  
Roving Seminars in ARIPO Member States2 Gaborone, Botswana 
14-18 March  2016 
Kampala, Uganda 
28 March -1 April 2016 
Windhoek, Namibia 
14-18 April 2016 The Roving Seminars covered a number of topics but mainly ARIPO experts trained the staff of the 
national IP Offices on ARIPO procedures as well as technical matters es pecially patent drafting.  
In a nutshell, the topics included the following:  
 Protection and Promotion of Patents, Utility Models, Industrial Designs, Trademarks and 
Computer  Software;  
 Protection and Utilization of New Varieties of Plants, Geographical Indic ations, Traditional 
Knowledge and Handicraft for Economic Development;  
 Registration, Commercialization and Monetization of Patents, Utility Models, Industrial 
Designs, Trademarks and Geographical Indications;  
 Protection and utilization of Traditional Knowl edge, Expressions of Folklore and Genetic 
Resources;  
 Copyright and Related Rights for Development;  
 The National, Regional and international IP Legal System and Registration of IP  Rights;  
 The Role of Intellectual Property in Business, with specific Emphasis  on Manufacturing, 
Branding, Youth innovation and Commercialization of Research Results;  
 Protection of New Varieties of Plant and Geographic Indications to enhance Agricultural 
Productivity and Origin -Based Products.  
Capacity Building by the ARIPO Academy : 
Offer sponsorship to students to undertake 
the Master of Intellectual Property (MIP 
programme)  Africa University, Mutare, 
Zimbabwe  The MIP programme is jointly organized by ARIPO, WIPO and Africa University in Mutare, 
Zimbabwe.  
The programme was initiate d to develop a critical mass of Intellectual Property experts for the 
development of the Intellectual Property system in Africa.  
The 8th cohort graduated in 2016. Another intake (9th cohort) is expected to graduate early next 
year. 
So far, the programme ha s graduated 221 students since its launch in 2008 from the following 
countries: Angola (1); Botswana (11); Burundi (2); Cameroon (4); Eritrea (1); Ethiopia (3); Ghana 
(18); Kenya (18); Lesotho (9); Liberia (2); Malawi (14); Mauritius  (1); Mozambique (5); N amibia 
(13); Nigeria (9); Rwanda (4); Sierra  Leone  (3); South Africa (4); Sudan (1); Swaziland (2); 
Tanzania (19); The  Gambia (4); Uganda (16); Zambia (8); and Zimbabwe (49).  
                                                
2 In 2014 and 2015, the Roving Seminars covered the following countries: Swaziland (24 -28 March  2014);  Mozambique (  21-25 April 2014) ; Liberia ( 28 April-2 May 2014) ; 
Sierra Leone (  19-23 May 2014) ; The Gambia (4 -8 August 2014) ; Sudan  (October 2014) ; Rwanda ( 9-11 March  2015);  Kenya ( 16-20 March  2015); Zambia  (11-15 May 2015); 
Lesotho ( 26-29 May 2015); Ghana (10-14 August  2015).    
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2  ASSISTANCE TO NATION AL INTELLECTUAL PROP ERTY OFFICES  
Activity  Location and date  Brief description  
Launch of the ARIPO Industrial Property (IP) 
back files Digitization Project, ARIPO 
Headquarters, Harare  ARIPO Headquarters,  
Harare, Zimbabwe,  
7–11 March  2016 The Project was co -funded by WIPO through the Fund -In-Trust of the Government of Japan and 
is implemented by Venturecom, a company based in Harare, Zimbabwe. The project is part of a 
bigger project to modernize the ARIPO ICT infrastructure and those of Member States in order to 
establish an online communication and information excha nge with the latter.  
Training on the operations of the Harare 
Protocol (ARIPO Protocol on Patents) and 
Banjul Protocol (ARIPO Protocol on 
Trademarks) for the National Office of the 
Republic of Sao Tome & Principe  Sao Tome & Principe, 
11-13 April 2016 Sao Tome & Principe joined ARIPO only in 2014 through accession to the Harare Protocol on 
Patents. In 2015, the Country acceded to the Banjul Protocol. ARIPO organized in collaboration 
with the Sao Tome & Principe National Industrial Property Office (SENAPI), an intensive training 
in other to capacitate the SENAPI staff on the processing of ARIPO applications and other 
technical matters.  
More particularly, the Training included among other topics the Introduction to the ARIPO 
Industrial Property Protocols and l inkages with international IP systems especially the TRIPS 
Agreement, the PCT and the Budapest Treaty.  
Hosting the delegates of the Kenya Industrial 
Property Tribunal at ARIPO Headquarters, 
Harare, Zimbabwe  ARIPO Headquarters, Harare, 
Zimbabwe, 12 -15 Apr il 2016 The objective of the visit of the delegation was to learn about to ARIPO procedures and benefit 
from the expertise of ARIPO staff. As a result, a framework for further cooperation with Kenya 
Industrial Property Tribunal was signed. Through this fra mework, ARIPO will assist the Kenya 
Industrial Property Tribunal in initiatives related to the enforcement of Intellectual Property 
Rights in Kenya.  
Building the capacity of Officers from Uganda 
Registration Services Bureau (URSB) at the 
ARIPO Headquarter s ARIPO Headquarters, Harare, 
Zimbabwe, 19 -29 April 2016 In a bid to assist ARIPO Member States in building the capacity of their staff working in 
Intellectual Property Offices, ARIPO hosts at different times and upon request officers from 
Member States wh o stay at the Headquarters for a number of days. It is in that regard that the 
Secretariat received two members of the URSB staff to undergo a two -week training of the 
ARIPO procedures and other technical matters relevant to their work as staff of a nation al IP 
Office, especially in handling Intellectual Property Rights applications.  
Study visit for ARIPO Member States to 
USPTO, United States of America  Alexandria, Virginia, US, 
19-23 September  2016 The study visit was jointly organized by USPTO and ARIPO for the benefit of some ARIPO 
Member States. Two ARIPO Member States (Zambia and Lesotho) and an official from ARIPO 
Secretariat conducted the study tour. The objective of the study tour was to learn how 
well-established Copyright Offices work in order to assist ARIPO Member States improve their 
Copyright management.  
   
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3  IMPROVEMENT OF INTEL LECTUAL PROPERTY LEG AL FRAMEWORK  
Activity  Location and date  Brief description  
Marrakesh Treaty, Beijing Treaty, TAG, 
WIPO Connect, Administration and 
Management Workshops  in Botswana  Gaborone, Botswana,  
25–29 July 2016 The workshops were co -organized by WIPO, ARIPO and the Botswana Company and Intellectual 
Property Authority (CIPA) as well as other Cooperating Partners (International Federation for 
Reproduction Rights (IFR RO). Beneficiaries were from Copyright Offices and Collective Management 
Organisations of ARIPO Member States and two Observer Members.  
The objectives of the workshops included addressing issues and options for national implementation of 
the Marrakesh Trea ty and the Beijing Treaty both related to Copyright . As a result, the Government of 
Botswana acceded to the Marrakesh Treaty while other Member States have expressed their 
commitment to accede to the Treaty and other instruments.  
Review of the Namibian Dr aft 
Regulations under the Industrial Property 
Act at the ARIPO Headquarters  ARIPO Headquarters (Harare, 
Zimbabwe), 15 -16 August  2016 It is within ARIPO's mandate to provide technical assistance to Member States either upon its own 
initiative or upon reques t. It is in this regard that ARIPO assisted the Government of Namibia through 
thoroughly reviewing the draft Regulations for the implementation of the Namibian Industrial Property 
Act adopted in March  2012.  
4  INTELLECTUAL PROPERT Y RELATED PUBLICATIO NS 
Activ ity Location and date  Brief description  
Publication of Guiding tools to assist 
Member States  ARIPO, Harare,  
2016 Comparative Study on Copyright Laws of ARIPO Member States and their adherence to International 
Instruments on Copyright and Related Rights . 
The aim of this tool is to assist ARIPO Member States to harmonise their laws and also t o improve their 
national legislations.  
Copyright Awareness Raising Guide for ARIPO Member States.  
The objective of this publication is to assist member States to be syst ematic when they are developing 
and implementing awareness initiatives.  
Guidelines for the Domestication of the Marrakesh Treaty.  
Upon realization that the majority of persons who are blind and visually impaired live in developing 
countries and least devel oped countries, ARIPO found imperative to publish this tool which will help 
member states to persuade decision makers and expedite the process of ratification of/ accession to the 
Marrakesh Treaty and domesticate it.  
 
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