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Consejo de los Aspectos de los Derechos de Propiedad  
Intelectual relacionados con el Comercio  Original:  inglés  
 
  
ACTIVIDADES DE COOPERACIÓN TÉCNICA: INFORMACIÓN  
FACILITADA POR LOS MIEMBROS  
CANADÁ  
Addendum  
La presente comunicación, de fecha 20 de septiembre de 2017, se distribuye a petición de la 
delegación del Canadá . 
 
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1  BREVE EXPOSICIÓN SOBRE LA COOPERACIÓN TÉCNICA DURANTE EL AÑO OBJETO DEL  
INFORME  
1.  De conformidad con el artículo 67 del Acuerdo sobre los Aspectos de los Derechos de Propiedad 
Intelectual relacionados con el Comercio (Acuerdo sobre los ADPIC), el Consejo de los ADPIC pide 
a los paíse s desarrollados Miembros que le informen sobre sus programas de cooperación técnica y 
financiera a favor de los países en desarrollo y menos adelantados Miembros . El presente 
documento contiene información actualizada sobre las actividades de cooperación t écnica y 
financiera del Canadá en la esfera de la propiedad intelectual en favor de los países en desarrollo y 
los países menos adelantados Miembros durante el período 2016 -2017.  
2.  El Canadá ha emprendido una serie de actividades de cooperación técnica a niv el multilateral, 
plurilateral y bilateral . A nivel multilateral, el Canadá colabora estrechamente con la  Organización 
Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual y el Foro de Cooperación Económica de Asia y el  Pacífico 
(IPEG -APEC), donde participa en las deliberac iones que mantiene la organización cada dos años 
para compartir información y dar a conocer las mejores prácticas en materia de derechos de 
propiedad intelectual.  
3.  El siguiente resumen contiene información actualizada sobre estas actividades, que son 
admini stradas principalmente por la Oficina de la Propiedad Intelectual del Canadá (CIPO), Global 
Affairs Canada (Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Comercio y Desarrollo del Canadá) , el Centro 
Internacional de Investigación para el Desarrollo (IDRC) y la Real Po licía Montada del Canadá 
(RCMP) . Otras instituciones canadienses  que reciben financiación del Gobierno del Canadá , como el 
Centro de Política y Derecho Comerciales (CTPL) y la Universidad de Ottawa, participan también en 
las actividades de cooperación técn ica internacional.  
4.  Las actividades de cooperación técnica aparecen detalladas en el anexo . 
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ANEXO1 
TECHNICAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES FROM 1 SEPTEMBER 2016 TO 31 AUGUST 2017  
Activity  Date  Location  Brief Description  Link to further 
details  
WIPO Programme of 
International  
Cooperation in the 
Search and Examination 
of Inventions (ICSEI)  Between 
1 September 2015 
and 31 August 2016  2 requests for 
Madagascar and 
3 requests for 
Djibouti  Providing search and examination reports of patent applications   
Supplying free copies of 
Canadian patent 
documents for 
developing countries  Upon request 
from WIPO     
CIPO collaboration with 
the Trade Facilitation 
Office (TFO), to offer a  
series of webinars  Between 3 May 
and 24 May 2016 Participants were 
from African and 
Latin American 
countries  Provided to embassies, consulates and businesses from 
developing and emerging countries.  
Topics covered : Basics of IP, How to file for patent in Canada, 
How to file for TM in Canada, and Patent application 
mechanisms (PCT, PPH).   
National Legislative 
Development project  Start:  
20 October 2009  
Planned 
completion:  
28 September 2018  Viet Nam  The objective of the project is to strengthen the legal 
foundations for economic growth through an integrated 
programme of reforms to the Vietnamese legislative 
development process . It addresses several priorities of the  
Government of Viet Nam 's legal reform agenda, including : the 
development of laws that are clear and more easily 
implemented ; improved review of legislation to ensure that it is 
consistent internally and with other legislation ; and more 
effective public participation in the lawmaking process . The 
project addresses these concerns through an integrated work 
programme addressing all points of the legislative development 
process, with  attention to legislation that supports economic 
growth and development.   
                                                
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Activity  Date  Location  Brief Description  Link to further 
details  
Canadian -Caribbean 
Cooperation Fund  Start 
7 April 2003  
End 
31 December  2016 Antigua and 
Barbuda, Anguilla, 
Belize, Grenada, 
Guyana, Jamaica, 
Saint Kitts and 
Nevis, Sain t Lucia, 
Montserrat, 
Suriname, 
Dominica, Saint 
Vincent and the 
Grenadines  The goal of the Canadian -Caribbean Cooperation Fund (CCF) is 
to advance public sector reform and to contribute to improving 
the environment for business development in the Caribbean . 
The purposes are : (1) to strengthen public sector entities for 
the effective and efficient delivery of services and (2)  to 
address bottlenecks to private sector development and business 
investment . Public Works and Government Services Canada 
(PWGSC) is th e organization responsible for managing the CCF 
on behalf of Global Affairs Canada . PWGSC has established a 
network of local fund coordinators, currently based in Guyana, 
Antigua, and Jamaica, who have been contracted to serve local 
needs, facilitate the application process and monitor local CCF 
initiatives . The CCF provides technical assistance in response to 
initiatives proposed by local government ministries, regional 
organizations, business associations or institutions such as 
universities . These initi atives aim primarily to increase local 
governments' capacities to formulate effective policies, to 
deliver efficient services, and to enhance the climate for 
business  development.  http://w05.internationa
l.gc.ca/projectbrowser -
banqueprojets/project -
projet/details/A031268
001 
Canadian Trade and 
Development Facility 
(CTDF)  Established : 
20 June 2014   CTDF provides technical assistance and capacity building to 
developing countries in order to help them negotiate, 
implement, adapt to and benefit from Free Trade Agreements 
(FTAs) and Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection 
Agreements (FIPAs) with Canada . The CTDF is comprised of 
three components : (1) an  Expert Deployment Mechanism 
(EDM),  which is not yet operational but will provide just -in-time 
technical support to assist developing countries negotiate, 
implement, adapt to, and benefit from bilateral or regional FTAs 
and FIPAs with Canada adapting to an FTA or FIPA with 
Canada ; (2) an alliance with the Trade Facilitation Office (TFO) 
Canada, called the Trading Partners Responsive Facility (TPRF), 
which is entails small -scale projects that respond to specific 
trade -related requests from Canada's trad ing partners from 
developing countries ; and (3) a  commitment to consider the 
development of other sustainable economic growth (SEG) 
projects, if required . The CTDF will be allocated up to 
$25 million per year . The key focus is on countries with which 
Canad a has or is developing trade agreements, and the CTDF    
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Activity  Date  Location  Brief Description  Link to further 
details  
could be used to help developing countries implement the 
intellectual property aspects of FTAs with Canada.  
Canada also supports TFO Canada in its mandate to inform 
developing countries on intellectual property, amongst other 
subjects  
Global Partnership on 
Open Data for 
Development  Start:  
1 January 2015 
Completed:  
9 September 2017 Global (Latin 
America and the 
Caribbean, 
Central and 
Eastern Europe, 
Asia, Africa)  Open data can help governments, businesses, and 
organizations share huge amounts of information with the  
public that can be used and re -used for a variety of social and 
economic purposes . The Global Partnership on Open Data for 
Development, a partnership with IDRC, the World Bank and 
Global Affairs Canada aims to scale open data innovations, and 
to strengthen coordination among other open data initiatives to 
ensure they benefit people in developing countries.  
This program sought to help developing -country governments, 
entrepreneurs, and c ivil society create and implement national 
and global action plans to harness open data for development ; 
to support developing country governments to plan, execute, 
and manage national open data initiatives ; to increase reuse of 
open data in developing cou ntries by supporting appropriate 
data standards, guidelines, solution -driven applications, and 
demand -side capacity, helping to bring about social and 
economic innovation ; and to better understand the  relationship 
between open data initiatives and socio -economic development, 
informing the quality and reach of future open data initiatives.  
The project supported 8 open data sectorial efforts in 
agriculture, anti -corruption, cities, aid data, elections and more, 
trained over 1800 public servants and civil soci ety innovators, 
tracked over 115 countries on the use of open data, supported 
5 scaled and 18 tested innovations . An external evaluation of 
the program suggested it had significantly broadened the field 
and contributed to positive development outcomes . New 
projects are being planned to further expand the activities to 
new regions, including English Africa, Francophone Africa, and 
the Middle East and North  Africa.  http://od4d.net/result/
evaluation -of-the-open-
data-for-development -
program -2014-2016/  
 
http://od4d.net/result/
od4d-annual -report -
2016/    
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Activity  Date  Location  Brief Description  Link to further 
details  
African Institute for 
Mathematical Sciences 
(AIMS):  Start:  
1 January 2011 
Planned 
completion:  
30 September 2017 AIMS centres are 
located in 
Tanzania , South 
Africa, Senegal, 
Ghana, Cameroon 
and Rwanda  IDRC is implementing Canada 's $20 million contribution to 
expand the network of Institutes for Mathematical Sciences in 
Africa . AIMS provides rigorous mathematics training to post -
graduate African students . Mathematical sciences are the  
backbone of a modern economy . Solutions to complex 
challenges in health, agriculture, and finance, for example, al l 
require advanced mathematical modelling skills . The Initiative 
supports Africa 's top students to enroll in a rigorous 10 -month 
graduate -level course that leads to a master's degree in 
mathematical science.  
In 2016, Canada announced an additional CA$22.6 million over 
five years to train African mathematical scientists to develop 
climate change adaptation and mitigation solutions through 
AIMS. This new Mathematical Sciences for Climate Change 
Resilience (MS4CR) project is now underway and will end in 
March 2022. The climate change stream will be starting in 
Rwanda and Tanzania  in 2018, with select courses offered in all 
other AIMS centres.  http://idris.idrc.ca/app/
Search  
Scaling African 
Technology Start -Ups Start:  
3 March 2015  
Planned 
completion:  
1 July 2018 Egypt and South 
Africa  This project aims to explore whether and how networked, open, 
and collaborative innovations help technology start -ups scale 
and seize global economic opportunities . An interdiscipli nary 
team of African researchers will study the economic potential of 
Africa's emerging collaborative innovations in informal sector 
digital innovation enterprises, community -based businesses, 
entrepreneurship at high technology hubs.  
The UN Economic Commi ssion for Africa invited the project 
researchers to participate actively in policy discussions on 
regional integration and trade, and specifically to write the  
framework think piece for intellectual property, science, tech, 
and innovation policy in African  international trade agreements, 
which they will present in Addis later in 2017 . The project is 
similarly engaging as advisors to the Africa Group Negotiating 
Bloc on negotiations toward a new World Intellectual Property 
Organization treaty . The project is  also conducting the first ever 
research on African technology hubs, and will be publishing it in 
the NYU law journal.  http://www.openair.org
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Activity  Date  Location  Brief Description  Link to further 
details  
Pervasive Technologies : 
Access to Knowledge 
(A2K) in the Marketplace  Start:  
18 February 2011 
Completed : 
18 October 2017 India This project explores the interplay between intellectual property 
and the production and deployment of pervasive networked 
technologies and seeks to provide a supply -side picture of how 
intellectual property plays a role in the  proliferation of access 
technologies . The resulting body of research sheds light on how 
to better promote access to knowledge in Asia, influencing 
intellectual property laws and practices.  https://www.idrc.ca/en
/project/pervasive -
technologies -access -
knowledge -a2kin -
marketplace -0 
https://cis -
india.org/a2k  
Copyright and 
Innovation in the 
Developing World  Start:  
27 February 2015 
Completed : 
27 November 2017 India, Colombia, 
Brazil, and Chile  This project provides evidence to support governments 
grappling with intellectual property questions as they are key 
for facilitating economic growth and innovation in the digital 
economy . By exploring the difference copyright law makes to 
economic, social, and cultural outcomes, this project will inform 
policies that support innovation and entrepreneurship in 
developing countries . This project is building a transnational 
index of changes in copyrights law in 15 countries, studying the 
impact of copyright laws on the behavior of firms, and is 
developing sector -specific case studies . Finally, the project is 
looking into new forms of paymen t and reward for developing 
country -creators who wish to distribute their content.  https://www.idrc.ca/en
/project/copyright -and-
innovation -developing -
world -0 
Scoping Study for Cyber 
Policy Capacity Building 
in Developing Countries  Start:  
10 April 2015 
Completed:  
10 April 2016 Global  This scoping project developed the conceptual background 
needed to achieve well -crafted cyber policies . The goal is to 
foster open, secure, and reliable information systems and 
communications infrastructure to support international trade 
and commerce . It aimed to explore the balance between sound, 
intelligent security while protecting free expression and 
innovation . The project t eam strove for multifaceted discussions 
of the challenges that exist where security, human 
development, and civil liberties intersect . The funds were used 
to commission two scoping and background papers, and also to 
hold a workshop.  
The project has led to a fuller understanding of the cyber policy 
issues in the developing world . Pursuant to this project, the 
next phase is currently underway : IDRC has released a  global 
call for institutions operating in the cyber policy space to 
receive further funding and c apacity building in a pilot phase . 
The final selection of institutions is now underway, and funding 
is expected to begin in late 2017.  https://www.idrc.ca/en
/content/call -
expressions -interest -
strengthening -cyber -
policy -centres -global -
south    
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Activity  Date  Location  Brief Description  Link to further 
details  
Canadian International 
Food Security Research 
Fund (CIFSRF)  Launched in 2009  Sub-Saharan 
Africa, South 
Africa, Kenya, 
Trinidad and 
Tobago, Tanzania , 
Sri Lanka and 
India Partnerships between Canadian and developing country 
researchers is one way that IDRC helps support technology 
transfer . CIFSRF, funded by IDRC and Global Affairs Canada, 
supports research in agricultural innovation and fosters 
collabor ation between developing -country researchers and 
Canadian experts . Now in its second phase, CIFSRF is building 
on earlier results to reduce post -harvest losses and 
commercialize livestock vaccines:  
 Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), a highly 
contagi ous respiratory disease of cattle, has serious 
economic and trade consequences for sub -Saharan 
Africa . Researchers from Kenya and Canada are now 
testing a highly efficient vaccine.  
 Researchers from South Africa and Canada have 
developed a novel vaccine tha t protects livestock from 
multiple deadly diseases in a single dose . Collaboration 
with regulatory bodies, agricultural ministries, 
professional associations, and vaccine producers has 
begun, and is expected to bring this much -needed 
innovation to farming families in South Africa, Kenya, and 
beyond.  
 Researchers from Canada have developed a natural 
compound known as hexanal to delay the ripening of 
mangoes and decrease spoilage . Spraying mangoes with 
hexanal earned farmers up to 15% more by allowing 
them to get more, better quality fruit to market later in 
the season . The researchers are partnering with 
institutions in India and Sri Lanka to further develop and 
commercialize technologies to extend the shelf -life of 
fruit. Several products, including sprays an d specialized 
packaging, have been developed and are being tested.  http://www.idrc.ca/EN/
Documents/CIFSRF -
Call-5-1-Backgrounder -
ENG.pdf  
Collaborative Adaptation 
Research Initiative in 
Africa and Asia (CARIAA)  2014-2019 Africa and Asia  This initiative, funded jointly by IDRC and the UK 's Department 
for International Development,  supports four research consortia 
with a range of regional, scientific and socio -economic 
development expertise to explore the physical, social, economic 
and political dimensions of vulnerability and adaptation options 
in the climate change hotspots of deltas, semi -arid lands, and 
glacier -dependent basins.  http://cariaa.net    
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Activity  Date  Location  Brief Description  Link to further 
details  
 In addition to exploring proactive, lo nger-term 
approaches to climate change adaptation while 
supporting the management of current risks in 
14 countries across Africa and Central and South Asia, 
researchers working with Adaptation at Scale in Semi -
Arid Regions (ASSR), have also held training p rogrammes 
on regional climate modelling, regional integrated 
assessment tools.  
 As part of their large -scale project in the Deltas, 
Vulnerability and Climate Change : Migration and 
Adaptation (DECCMA) program, researchers are exploring 
the potential for stak eholder engagement at the technical 
assistance level in Bangladesh and Ghana.  
Researchers in the Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience 
(HI-Aware) consortium are developing short - and long -term 
climate adaptation strategies, resulting in up -scaling and  out-
scaling of institutional and local adaptation innovations . Pilot 
projects have been developed for climate resilient agriculture, 
flood resilient housing, floods, and addressing heat stress . 
Findings informed new support for Nepal from Global 
Environme nt Facility.  
International Intellectual 
Property Crime Training 
Seminars hosted by 
Interpol  Since 2007   The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has contributed to 
the seminars each year . The seminars have been given to 
participants from developed and least developed countries, 
facilitating the exchange of best practices and techniques, and 
networking   
Permanent Forum on 
International 
Pharmaceutical Crime 
(PFIPC)  Ongoing   The RCMP and Health Canada are  also members of the forum . 
It re-groups 17 developed countries and members from the  
private sector,  allowing for the exchange of best practices, 
information on trends and enforcement initiatives and 
networking.   
Operation PANGEA IX  
(International Week of  
Action to raise public 
awareness of the risks of 
buying medicines on the 
internet)  June 2016   The RCMP, Health Canada and the Canada Border Services 
Agency participated in Operation PANGEA IX organised by 
the PFIPC and Interpol . A total of 103 countries participated 
which saw 400 arrests worldwide and the seizure of $53M (US) 
worth of falsified medicines and the shutdown  of 5000  illegal 
online pharmacies.     
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details  
Centre for Trade Policy 
and Law - guidance, 
support, knowledge  and 
tools   Canada -based Centre for Trade Policy and Law (CTPL) is a  
Canadian institution that provides developing and transition 
economies with guidance and support to sustain them in the  
short-term and with the knowledge and tools to ensure their full 
participation in international trade agreements, including 
specific training on intellectual property law and policy issues.   
Open African In novation 
Research Network 
(Open  AIR) Ongoing  Africa and Ottawa  Open AIR is a unique collaborative network of researchers 
spread across Africa and Canada . Their research aims to ease 
tensions between IP and access to knowledge, and to 
understand how knowledge -based businesses can take 
advantage of global opportunities, while sharing the benefits of 
innovation throughout society . Open AIR is funded by Canada 's 
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and is in 
year three of a seven -year Partnership Grant from the Social 
Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) . They 
recently were also selected for the Queen Elizabeth S cholars - 
Advanced Scholars program.  http://www.openair.org
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