. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
IP/C/W/560 
5 October 2011 
 (11-4824) 
Council for Trade-Related Aspects of 
Intellectual Property Rights Original:   English 
 
 
 
TECHNICAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES: 
INFORMATION FROM MEMBERS 
 
NORWAY 
 
  The following communication, dated 29 September 2011, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Norway.  
 Communications from other developed country Me mbers will be circulated as addenda to this 
document.  
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 I. INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY 
1. The Norwegian Industrial Property Office, in  collaboration with the World Intellectual 
Property Organization (WIPO) Academy, has since the year 2000 on an annual basis conducted training courses of one week on in tellectual property rights.  The c ourses gather up to 20 participants 
from national industrial property offices in developing  countries from all over the world.  The courses 
are free of charge for the participants and are fi nanced by the Norwegian government.  Travel costs 
are covered by WIPO, which also handles applications from the participants.  
2. The target group are officials who deal with inte llectual property rights at a practical level.  
The aim of the courses is to achieve among the participants a better und erstanding of different 
intellectual property rights, with a focus on the pr actical work and administrative management of 
industrial property applications.  While the topics of last year concerned trademarks, this year's course 
dealt with patents. Employees of the Norwegian Industrial Property Office gave the lectures in 
English. 
3. The Norwegian Industrial Property Office c ooperates with WIPO and delivers Patent 
Information Services for Developing Countries.   More information can be found at: 
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/data/developing_countries.html  
 
Enquiries can be made to: 
 Mr. Jostein Sandvik, Senior Legal Advisor 
 Norwegian Industrial Property Office 
 P. O. Box 8160 Dep. 
 Sandakerveien 64 
 N-0033 OSLO 
 Telephone: +47 22 38 74 09  Fax:  +47 22 38 73 01  E-mail:  jsa@patentstyret.no IP/C/W/560 
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  II. COPYRIGHT 
4. The Norwegian Copyright Develo pment Association (Norcode) a nd WIPO organized in 2011 
a training programme on the "Exercise and Manage ment of Copyright and Related Rights". The 
programme consists of four phases. The second ph ase took place in Oslo in collaboration with the 
Norwegian Ministry of Culture and consisted of  a 10-day course for 21 participants mainly from 
Africa and South East Asia. Participants were in volved in copyright management in their own 
countries, and the course was free of charge. Costs were covered by the Norwegian government with 
WIPO offering administrative services and lecturers. Lectures included several topics relating to effective rights management and were held in  English by Norcode and Norwegian right-holder 
organizations as well as by WIPO and the Norwegian Ministry of Culture. 
5. The main objective of the training programme  was to provide the participants with a 
comprehensive picture of all pillars of a well-func tioning copyright system: legislation, enforcement 
and management of rights; including national and international legal framework and its impact on 
national infrastructure. The Oslo course also provi ded information and examples on various aspects of 
individual exercise of rights, such as contracts be tween creators and publishers/producers. In addition 
the programme provided information on collective ma nagement of rights both in theory and practice 
by using the Norwegian collective management organizations (CMOs) as an example.  
Enquires can be made to: 
Constance Ursin, Assistant Director General Department of Media Policy and Copyright Ministry of Culture 
P.O. Box 8030 Dep 
0030 Oslo Norway Telephone:   +47 22 24 80 33 Fax:   +47 22 24 80 39 
Email:   cbu@kud.dep.no 
  
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