WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  IP/C/W/456 
7 October 2005 
 
 (05-4519) 
Council for Trade-Related Aspects 
of Intellectual Property Rights Original:   English 
 
 
 
TECHNICAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES: INFORMATION FROM 
OTHER INTERGOVERNMEN TAL ORGANIZATIONS 
  
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT 
 
   At its meeting of 14-15 June 2005, the Council for TRIPS agreed to invite intergovernmental 
organization observers to the Council to update th e information on their technical and financial 
cooperation programmes relating to the im plementation of the TRIPS Agreement. 
  The present document reproduces the inform ation which has been received from the 
Organisation for Economic Co-ope ration and Development (OECD) by means of a communication 
dated 28 September 2005. 
 
 Communications from other intergovernmental or ganizations will be circulated as addenda to 
this document.   
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  Thank you very much for your letter of 21 Ju ly 2005 addressed to the Secretary-General who 
has referred your letter to me regarding your reque st for information on any technical or financial 
cooperation programmes of the OECD relating to the implementation of the TRIPS Agreement.  
While the OECD has a range of activities underway re lating to intellectual property rights, we have 
not separately targeted implementation of the Ag reements as the specific focus of technical 
cooperation.  The OECD does not operate fina ncial cooperation progra mmes related to the 
implementation of the TRIPS Agreement.   I attach a recent overview of OECD work on IPRs, which can also be accessed via the 
hyperlink:  http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/60/61/34305040.pdf
.  I would like to mention in particular 
the projects on "IPR in China" and on "Combatt ing counterfeiting" which touch on TRIPS.  In 
addition, I would like to note that work on IPR in the OECD Trade Directorate is currently focused on 
dissemination of recent research findings (via th e internet, publications and presentations) which 
touch on a variety of issues related to economic development.  
 
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 ANNEX 
COMPENDIUM OF OECD ACTIVITIES RELATED TO IPR  
August 2005  
The OECD is carrying out numerous activities relate d to intellectual property rights (IPR). This 
document provides an overview of ongoing and recently completed work. It is organised by OECD 
directorate, focusing on the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, the Economics Department, and the Trade Directorate. IPR issues also arise in the work of the Directorate for 
Financial and Enterprise Affairs, the Environmen t Directorate, and the Directorate for Food, 
Agriculture and Fisheries. Additional details of some  of the work outlined below can be found in the 
references given at the end. 
1.  DIRECTORATE FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY (DSTI) 
IPR work within the Directorate for Science, Technology and Indu stry (DSTI) is conducted under the 
auspices of several OECD committees, including  the Committee for Scientific and Technological 
Policy (CSTP) and the Committee for Information,  Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP), 
and their respective working parties: Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP), 
Working Party on National Experts on Science a nd Technology Indicators (NESTI), Working Party 
on Biotechnology (WPB), and Working Party on the Information Economy (WPIE). For more information visit www.oecd.org/sti/ipr
. 
 Intellectual assets and value creation. Knowledge exploitation is increasingly important for 
generating growth and maintaining a competitive advantage, which has spurred interest in 
understanding the various mechanis ms for generating knowledge ( e.g. education, training and 
research and development), exploiting it ( e.g. so called knowledge management practices) and 
appropriating it ( e.g. intellectual property). Against this background, Ministers meeting at the OECD 
in May 2004 proposed a programme of work to impr ove the understanding of the role of intellectual 
assets and their importance to economic performan ce. The work is focused on four types of 
intellectual assets – R&D, patents, software and human capital – and will ex amine ways to improve 
their measurement, assess their contribution to  firm-level and macroeconomic competitiveness, 
ultimately enabling firms to better convey their value for purposes of internal manage-ment and 
external investment decisions. Th is work is being conducted in a multidisciplinary fashion across the 
OECD, with the involvement of expe rts in education policy and corpor ate affairs, and will be reported 
to Ministers in 2006. As part of this work, a fo rum on "Business Performance and Intellectual Assets" 
was organised in October 2004 and a large interna tional policy conference on "Intellectual Assets and 
Innovation: Value Creation in the Knowledge Economy" will be held in Ferrara, Italy in October 
2005. Jointly organised with the University of Fe rrara, the conference will bring together experts, 
practitioners and policy makers to discuss how firms and other organisations are harnessing 
intellectual assets for performance, to explore wa ys to improve reporting on value creation from 
intellectual assets, and to draw polic y implications (see www.oecd.org/sti/ipr 
and 
www.ferraraonintangibles.net ) The project will issue a report for the 2006 meeting of the OECD 
Council at the Ministerial level.  IP/C/W/456 
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 Valuation and exploitation of patents. Work on IPR, innovation and technology diffusion, 
developed in conjunc tion with the horizontal project on in tellectual assets and value creation, is 
focused on patent valuation and exploitation and co nsiders such topics as licensing. A conference on 
"Intellectual Property as an Economic Asset: Key I ssues in Valuation and Exploitation" was jointly 
organised by the OECD, the European Patent Offi ce (EPO) and the German Federal Ministry of 
Economic and Labour (BMWA) in Berlin on 30 June and 1 July 2005. The aim of the conference was 
to review current motivations and practices for patent valuation and e xploitation across industry 
sectors and to examine ways in which public and private sector organisations can improve the 
effectiveness of the system of IP valuation a nd exploitation. The background and issues paper and 
copies of the presentations made by the spea kers are available at www.oecd.org/sti/ipr
. A summary 
report of the conference will also be available in late 2005. 
 Guidelines for the licensing of genetic inventions. The OECD is developing policy guidelines for 
the transfer of genetic inventions, especially through license agreements. These voluntary guidelines 
are addressed to policy makers and practitioners in charge of promoting innovation in health-related 
services, in particular those involved in the li censing of inventions. The development of these 
guidelines results from an OECD expert workshop held to investigate the impact of increased 
patenting and licensing of genetic inventions used  in human health care on access to information, 
products and services for research ers, clinicians and patients. The workshop indicated that the 
intellectual property (IP) system, as applied to ge netic inventions, functions largely as intended – 
stimulating innovation and the disclosure of informa tion, and found no evidence to suggest a systemic 
breakdown in the licensing of such inventions (see OECD 2002, Genetic Inventions, IPR and 
Licensing Practices: Evidence and Policies). Nevertheless, specific issues were identified at the 
workshop, leading to the proposal to develop licensing guidelines through a number of expert 
meetings. Development of the guidelines was endor sed at the OECD Committee for Scientific and 
Technological Policy (CSTP) meeting at Ministeria l level in January 2004, as well as by OECD 
health ministers at their meeting in May 2004. It is intended that the draft guidelines will be submitted 
to the Working Party on Biotechnology, the CSTP and the OECD Council for adoption as a 
Recommendation in late 2005. More information available at www.oecd.org/sti/biotechnology/licensing.
 
 Collaborative mechanisms for access to innovative technologies in life sciences. The increased 
number of patents issued in the life sciences, as in ot her innovative fields, has raised issues especially 
with respect to access. Many interested parties ha ve expressed concerns with respect to access to 
technologies to be employed (for example, as research tools), inputs for product development (for example in the context of developing vaccines), or the delivery of services, especially in the field of human health care. With a view to identifying solutio ns to such issues, the OECD is carrying out work 
on collaborative mechanisms, such as patent pool s, patent clearinghouses, etc. The underlying 
premise is to identify the collabora tive mechanisms that encourage a nd facilitate access to and the use 
of innovative technologies. These types of mechanisms  are increasingly being considered and used in 
other fields, especially the information and comm unications technologies, as means for increasing 
access to innovations for research and commercialisa tion purposes. One goal of this work is to 
identify the manner in which collaborative mechan isms may be employed in the life sciences, 
especially for genetic or genomic innovations. 
 Research use of patented knowledge. Related to the work on collaborative mechanisms and 
following a request from Ministers at the CSTP Ministerial meeting in January 2004, a project is being developed to examine national practices a nd policies regarding research use of patented 
knowledge. This will include a review of research (or experimental use) exemptions in patent law, and 
their impact on the conduct of scientific research an d innovation. The objective is to identify effective 
mechanisms for maintaining strong  industry-science linkages in the face of increased patenting by 
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 experts, and a workshop will be organised in 2006 to present relevant studies and draw policy 
implications.  IPR, innovation and economic performance. This activity, developed between 2002 and 2004, 
aimed to provide evidence-based analysis of the effects of IPR regimes on incentives for innovation, 
diffusion of knowledge and, ultimat ely, economic performance, with the aim of providing guidance to 
policy makers. The work focused primarily on pa tents, but addressed copyright and data base 
protection to the extent they influence paten ting behaviour. It examined new conditions for 
knowledge appropriation and diffusion; the impact of IPR on invention, knowledge diffusion and 
economic performance; IP management in public research organisations; biotechnology patenting; 
IPR for software and services; and policy implicati ons. A survey on changes in business patenting and 
licensing practices was undertaken in co-operation w ith the OECD’s Business and Industry Advisory 
Committee (BIAC) as an input to the study, an d a major conference was held on 28-29 August 2003 
in Paris, the proceedings of which are now available as an OECD publication (see OECD 2004, 
Patents, Innovation and Economic Perf ormance. OECD Conference Proceedings ). In addition, a 
report on Patents and Innovation: Trends and Policy Challenges drawing from this work was 
submitted to the meeting of the OECD Committ ee for Scientific and Technological Policy at 
Ministerial level in January 2004. Follow-up work is taking the form of studies on the role of IPR in 
innovation and knowledge diffusion and on research use of patented knowledge, consistent with the 
guidance provided by science and technology Ministers (see Meeting of the OECD CSTP at 
Ministerial Level - Final Communiqué available at www.oecd.org/sti/stpolicy
). 
 
Patent statistics. OECD work on patent statistics is c onducted in close co-operation with the 
members of the Patents Task Force, which brings together the world’s major patent offices (European 
Patent Office, Japanese Patent Office, United States Patent and Trademark Office and the World Intellectual Property Organisation) as well as major providers of statistics and indicators on science 
and technology (the European Commission, Eurostat, and US National Science Foundation). The 
main objective is to develop an international sta tistical infrastructure for patents, with a strong 
emphasis on the development of databases and methodologies. This infrastructure provides the conditions for improving the comparability and qua lity of patent indicators, enhancing the 
accessibility of patent statistics and facilitating the de velopment of a new generation of indicators for 
policy and research use. Methodological work ha s focused on the development of appropriate 
parameters for counting patent data , definitions of triadic patent families, patent data for specific 
technological areas and industries, patent citations, and firm-level patent data. A core set of indicators 
for more than 100 countries is available on the OECD Internet site ( www.oecd.org/sti/ipr-statistics
). A 
range of variables for major countries is available in a Compendium of Patents Statistics , published in 
October 2004. The current OECD patent database co vers information on EPO patents, USPTO patents 
and OECD triadic patents. However, the OECD is working closely with patents taskforce members to 
develop a database that will include patent informat ion from other major patent offices. In parallel, a 
survey is being conducted to better understand the re quirements and needs of users of patent statistics 
and indicators. A workshop on the use of patent st atistics was organised jointly by the OECD and the 
World Intellectual Property Organisation in Geneva (11-12 October 2004) to understand the 
challenges faced by the suppliers of patent statis tics in meeting the emerging needs of various users 
and identify important directions for future work . This workshop was a follow up to the 2003 WIPO-
OECD workshop on statistics in the patent fiel d. All the papers presented at the workshop are 
available on the OECD Internet site (www.oecd.org/sti/ipr-statistics ). 
 Intellectual property management in public research organisations. A two-year project on the 
strategic use of IPR by public research organisati ons was completed in 2003 and options for follow-up 
work are being evaluated . The project reviewed national laws  and regulations governing the 
ownership and exploitati on of IPR at universities and other public research organisations, and 
surveyed technology transfer offices at universiti es and public laboratories to collect the first 
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 activities. In addition, a series of case studies were  prepared to examine recent legislative or policy 
changes in OECD countries to enhance protection a nd exploitation of academic IPR, and to explore 
research institutions’ strategies and policies for ma naging IP in key fields, such as biotechnology and 
ICT (see OECD 2003 Turning Science Into Business: Pate nting and Licensing at Public Research 
Organisations ). 
 
IPR and digital broadband content. Digital content is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, driven by 
growing capabilities and performance of deliver y platforms, the rapid uptake of broadband 
technologies and improved performance of hardware and software. New formats, digital distribution 
technologies and playing devices are bringing new opportunities and challenges to digital content 
industries and copyrights and related rights. The Working Party on the Information Economy (WPIE) 
is undertaking stocktaking studies of sectors where digital content is transforming value chains and business models (including in scientific publishing, music, online computer and video games, film, 
and public sector content. See www.oecd.org/sti/digitalcontent
). As part of this work, the WPIE is 
analysing emerging policy issues (including the pr otection of IPR, digital rights management, 
challenges to the development of new business mo dels linked with current IPR frameworks, new 
licensing schemes, etc.). The OECD Recommenda tion of the Council on Broadband Development 
urges member countries to implement "regulatory fra meworks that balance the interests of suppliers 
and users, in areas such as the protection of intell ectual property rights, and digital rights management 
without disadvantaging innovative e-business models"  
IPR in China. In the framework of OECD activities with non-member countries, DSTI worked with 
the Chinese government authorities to organise two events related to  IPR in April 2004: i) a workshop 
on Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Development in China; and ii) a seminar on Intellectual 
Property Rights Issues Related to Public Research Institutions. The general objective of these events 
was to share OECD insight and experience related to  IP policies and the promotion of technological 
innovation and social and economic growth in a kn owledge based economy. The events were also 
expected to contri-bute to the design of China’s IP regime and a modernisation strategy based on 
technological upgrading, openness to foreign invest ment and further integration into the global 
economy. These efforts are linked to China’s strate gy of "Revitalising the nation through science and 
education," which promotes growth through science, technology and innovation,  and seeks to address 
the challenges of reforming China’s IP regime in line with the TRIPS agreement. These activities 
provided a basis for further follow up co-operati on on IP issues between the OECD and China. The 
proceedings of these workshops have been  published in 2005 and are available at 
www.oecd.org/sti/ipr
. In addition, and jointly with the OE CD Public Governance and Territorial 
Development Directorate, the DSTI is preparing a report on IPR governance in China, which will be 
published in late 2005 as part of a wider OECD study of governance in China. 
 
Combatting counterfeiting. In response to rising concerns in government and the business 
community, the OECD launched a project in April 2005 that will assess the effects of counterfeiting 
and piracy on economies. The project, which is  being funded by voluntary contributions from 
stakeholders, is being carried out in three separ ate phases. The first phase will focus on counterfeit 
and pirated products ( i.e. tangible products that infringe trademarks or copyrights), as well as 
infringements of patents and design rights. It will i) examine trends and developments in 
counterfeiting and identify the factors driving the increase in counterfeiting activities, ii) assess the 
impact on affected parties, iii) provide a series of industry-specific case studies that illustrate the 
different economic, health and safety impacts that counterfeiting can have, and iv) describe and assess 
the national and multilateral efforts that have been  made to combat counterfeiting, with a view 
towards identifying effective polici es and measures. The analytical wo rk will seek to raise awareness 
of issues associated with counterfeiting and would be used as back-ground for a series of regional 
workshops. The second phase of the project will focus on piracy of digital content, while the third will address all remaining TRIPS infringements. Work on the first two phases will be carried out during 
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 Other DSTI activities on IPR. In addition to the activities outlined above, a number of other DSTI 
projects touch upon IPR issues. Work on innovation in  services has examined patenting practices of 
service-sector firms, as well as patterns of pa tenting related to software and business method 
inventions (see OECD 2005, Enhancing the Performance of the Services Sector ). A series of sectoral 
case studies being conducted by the Working Pa rty on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP) 
examines innovation patterns in biotechnology, en ergy and knowledge-intensive service activities and 
considers the effects of IPR on innovation and knowle dge diffusion. Previous wo rk examined the role 
of patenting and licensing in fostering competition and co-operation in innovation and highlighted the 
increasing trend toward inward and outward licensi ng of technology by high-technology firms, in 
particular, in business innovation processes (see OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 
2002) . The Working Party on Biotechnology activity on establishing a global network of Biological 
Resource Centres examines IP issues in the cont ext of access and benefit-sharing. Its work on 
biotechnology for sustainable growth and developm ent, human genetic research databases and its 
health-related work, particularly on infectious diseas es and risk, also addresses IP issues, with a focus 
on technology diffusion and access to medicines and diagnostics. 
 
2.  ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT  
Within the Economics Department, the impact of intellectual property rights has been examined 
recently in a series of econometric studies of the determinants of R&D, patenting and the labour market for scientists and engineers in a panel of  19 OECD economies. Each of these separate studies 
included a time series index of the strength of IPR.  The main conclusion from this work is that 
stronger IP protection has a substantial positive eff ect on patenting, but only a limited effect on R&D 
intensity. The amount of research activity per researcher  is also found to be slightly lower than it was 
before the change, implying that stronger IPR can  reduce the labour efficiency of researchers. The 
econometric work also suggested that there may be important interactions between the IPR index and 
some measures of product market competition, with  stronger IP protection offsetting some of the 
beneficial effects of enhanced competition. However, the magnitude of these effects proved difficult 
to pin down precisely. As the IPR index now has a similar value for most  OECD economies, one 
conclusion from this work is that it is unlikely that  differences in IP protection are the principal factor 
behind continuing cross-country differences in  the intensity of innovation activities. 
 Previous analytical work in the Department, undertak en in the context of the OECD’s Growth Project, 
also established a significant positive association between the degree of protection for IPR and R&D 
intensity in a cross-section of manufacturing indus tries in 18 OECD countries. This association was 
robust to the inclusion of a large number of additi onal indicators of regulatory barriers and industry 
structure. It was not, however, possible to find robust effects from measures of IPR protection on bilateral foreign direct investment between OE CD member states over the period 1980-2000. 
 
3.  TRADE DIRECTORATE  
Under the auspices of the OECD Trade Committee, the Trade Directorate is engaged in work on 
trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights. In recent years, papers have covered such topics 
as:  
• International Licensing and the Strengthening of Intellectual Property Rights in Developing 
Countries , which presents an assessment of the imp acts of changes in the strength of IPR 
during the 1990s on technology transfer via international licensing deals.  
• The Impact of Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights on Trade and Foreign Direct 
Investment in Developing Countries , which describes the relationship of changes in IPR 
strength to changes in FDI and Trade.  IP/C/W/456 
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 • Technological Change and the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the New 
Economy , which provides an overview of developmen ts in international organisations that 
were prompted by technological change and th at relate to international law, initiatives or 
projects concerning IPR.  
• Intellectual Property Rights in Regional Trade Agreements , which reviews selected regional 
trade agreements and the ways they exte nd beyond the minimum requirements of the WTO 
TRIPS Agreement.  
Work to-date has highlighted the integration of IPR in multilateral and regional trade accords. It 
points to the existence among developing countries of a positive association between the strength of 
IPR and a variety of economic indicators, albeit with  some variation across sectors and countries and 
subject to certain conditions.   IP/C/W/456 
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 RECENT OECD PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY  
 
Reports  
OECD (2005), Enhancing the Performance of the Services Sector , Chapter 6 "Promoting Innovation in 
Services", OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2005), Promoting IPR Policy and Enfor cement in China: Proceedings of OECD-China Dialogues on 
Intellectual Property Rights Policy and Enforcement , OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2004), Compendium of Patents Statistics 2004 , OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2004), Information Technology Outlook 2004 , Chapter 5, "Digital Content", OECD Paris.  
OECD (2004), Patents, Innovation and Economic Performance: OECD Conference Proceedings , OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2004), Patents and Innovation: Trends and Policy Challenges , OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2003), Regionalism and the Multilateral Trading System , OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2003), The Sources of Economic Growth in OECD Countries , OECD Paris.  
OECD (2003), Turning Science into Business: Patenting and Licensing at Public Research Organisations , 
OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2002), Genetic Inventions, IPR, and Licensing Practices; Evidence and Policies , OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2002), Information Technology Outlook 2002 , OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2001), The New Economy: Beyond the Hype , OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2002), Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2002 , OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2001), Science, Technology and Industry Outlook: Drivers of Growth—Information Technology, 
Innovation and Entrepreneurship . OECD, Paris.  
Working Papers and Staff Papers  
Bassanini, A. and E. Ernst (2002), "Labour Market In stitutions, Product Market Regulation and Innovation: 
Cross-country Evidence", OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 316.  
Cattaneo, O. (2002), "Technological Change and the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the New 
Economy," OECD Trade Committee Working Party document.  
Dernis, H. and M. Khan (2004), "Triadic Patent Families Methodology", STI Working Paper, 
DSTI/DOC(2004)2.  
Jaumotte, F. and N. Pain (2005a), "Innovation in the Business Sector", OECD Economics Department Working 
Paper , forthcoming.  
Jaumotte, F. and N. Pain (2005b), "From Ideas to De velopment: The Determinants of R&D and Patenting", 
OECD Economics Department Working Paper , forthcoming.  
Kamiyama, S., Martinez, C. and J. Sheehan (2004), "B usiness Performance and Intell ectual Assets. Background 
and Issues", available at:  www .oecd.org/dataoecd /51/58/33848005.pdf .  IP/C/W/456 
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 Kamiyama, S., Sheehan, J. and C. Martinez (2005), "Inte llectual Property as an Economic Asset: Key Issues in 
Valuation and Exploitation. Background and Issues", available at www.oecd.org/dataoecd/45/13/35043640.pdf
.  
 
Khan, M. and H. Dernis (2005), "Impact of Patent Cooperation Treaty Data on EPO Patent Statistics and 
Improving the Timeliness of EPO Indicators", STI Working Paper, DSTI/DOC(2005)2.  
Martinez, C. and D. Guell ec (2004), "Overview of Recent Changes and Comparison of Patent Regimes in the 
United States, Japan and Europe", Chapter 7 in Patents, Innovation and Economic Performance. 
OECD Conference Proceedings , OECD, Paris. Available at 
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/39/21/34447828.pdf .  
Nicoletti, G., S. Golub, D. Hajkova,  D. Mirza and K.Y. Yoo (2003), "Pol icies and International Integration: 
Influences on Trade and Foreign Direct Investment", OECD Economics Department Working Paper 
No. 359. (Includes a discussion on the influence of IPR.)  
Park, W. G. and D. Lippoldt (2003), "Impact of Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights on Trade and 
Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries," OECD Papers , Vol. 3, No. 11, Issue 294.  
Park, W. G. and D. Lippoldt (2004), "International Licensing and the Strengthening of Intellectual Property 
Rights in Developing Countries," OECD Trade Policy Working paper No. 10, January. 
http://www.oecd.org/findDocument/0,2350 ,en_2649_33705_1_119684_1_2_1,00.html  
Shapiro, C. (2002), "Competition Policy and Innovation," STI Working Paper 2002/11.  
Sheehan, J., Martinez, C. and D. Guellec (2004), "Understanding Business Patenting and Licensing: Results of 
the Survey", Chapter 4 in Patents, Innovation and Economic Performance. OECD Conference 
Proceedings , OECD, Paris, and available at http://w ww.oecd.org/dataoecd/39/22/34447731.pdf  
WPIE’s publicly available documents  which discuss IPR-related issues1 
 
Freely downloadable from: www.oecd.org/st i/digitalcontent  
 
OECD (2005), Working Party on the Information Economy, Digital Broadband Content, Panel and Government 
Session, OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2005), Digital Broadband Content: Scientific  Publishing, DSTI/ICCP/IE(2004)11/FINAL, OECD, 
Paris.  
OECD (2005), Digital Broadband Content: Music,  DSTI/ICCP/IE(2004)12/FI NAL, OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2005), Digital Broadband Content: The Online Computer and Video Game Industry 
DSTI/ICCP/IE(2004)13/FINAL, OECD, Paris.  
OECD (2005), Mobile Content: New Content for New Platforms, DSTI/ICCP/IE(2004)14/FINAL, OECD, 
Paris.  
                                                      
1 OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy, Working Party on the 
Information Economy.  IP/C/W/456 
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