With the goal of contributing to a better comprehension of the current practices that involve the grant of patents in developing countries, and considering the possibilities of building up proposals for an alternative IP system, more developmental and catching up friendly, the project has the overall purpose of assessing these matters in the light of South American patent offices (Brazil, Chile and Peru) actual practices and legislation.

Main questions behind the proposal:
1. Flexibilities on TRIPS. How the patent offices explore such flexibilities?
2. What role SHOULD PATENT OFFICES PLAY concerning the National System of Innovation?
3. Given the institutional design of patent offices, what are their possible foreseen changes and emerging issues, considering the national innovation policies?
The specific aims of this field research are:
a) To reveal the nature of the research for precedence and examination processes for patents; the extent of the research universe; the interpretation accorded to the interaction between the depositing company and the patent office; to ascertain the manner in which each of these offices determines the scope of the patents granted.
b) Assess the level of dependency of these processes with the PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) examination and the prior examinations performed by trademark and patent offices of developed countries;
c) Assess the requirement levels as to intelligibility of the information published in the patent with the purposes of divulging technological information and in support of incremental innovation;
d) The data collected shall allow assessment of the opportunities and obstacles for greater cooperation between the South American patent offices under the ongoing regional integration processes.

The design and structure of the Latin American project will follow the recommendations of the first network meeting, in New York, last November 2006, as follows:
i. Administrative Design of the Patent Offices: who are the examiners; training mechanisms; incentives; opposition; autonomy; data infrastructure; data backlog; time for application; economic and fiscal aspects; cooperation between Latin American patent offices; PCT; emerging issues.
ii. Standards of Patentability: subject matter; definition of inventive step and novelty; enablement; descriptive sufficiency; patterns of utility.
iii. Enforcement: standard of infringements; equivalents; parallel enforcement; prior use rights; compulsory licenses; research exemption; court system; penalties; real application of the law and its flexibilities.
iv. Interaction of Patent Laws with other laws: Constitution; Antitrust and Competition; Human Rights; Bayh Dole and equivalents; Licensing Law; Regulatory Laws and Agencies; Industrial and Technological Policy linkages; public funding; price controls; clinical trials.
v. International Political Economy: WIPO; USTR; Civil Society (NGOs, activists, patient groups, etc.); industry groups/stakeholders; Global Governance - interaction with National Governance.

The workshop on Patent Offices is a meeting of three research teams:
1. TRIPS AND DEVELOPMENT COUNTRIES Project , under the coordination of Professor Richard Nelson and Dr. Bhaven Sampat (Columbia University);
2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CATCHING UP, under the coordination of Professor Akira Goto and Professor Odagiri Hiroyuki
3. INOVATION, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DEVELOPMENT, under the coordination of Dr. Jorge Ávila and Professor Ana Célia Castro.

	Local: Everest Rio Hotel - Av. Prudente de Morais, 1117 / RJ / BRASIL
	Dates: March 19 and 20, 2007

SCHEDULE

March 19: Morning

9:30 - 12:30 A.M.

1. The actual stage of the Research Projects: Coordinators presentation (20 minute presentations)
Chairman: Leonardo Burlamaqui - Ford Foundation perspectives
Bhaven Sampat - TRIPS and Development Countries Project.
Richard Nelson - News from the Intellectual Property Rights, Catching-up and Development Project.
Ariel Schwartz - News from the Initiative for Policy Dialogue - IPD.
Annalisa Primi - News from the ECLA - WIPO Initiative
Jorge Ávila - Latin-American patent offices: innovation, IP and Development.

Discussion - Networking prospective actions

March 19: Afternoon

14:00 - 18:00 P.M.

Chairman: Ana Toni - Ford Foundation Brazil
Research Project presentations - the India case. (20 minute presentation)
India research team: Bhaven Sampat, Tahir Amin, Shamnad Basheer, Priti Radhakrishnan.

Discussion: Amit Ray, Jorge Ávila, Ana Maria Pacón
General Discussion.

March 20: Morning

9:30 - 12:30 A.M.

Chair: Maria Beatriz Amorim Bohrer
Research Project presentations - the Brazilian case.
Carlos Morel - Brazilian Innovation Policies and Cooperative Networks.
Cláudia Chamas, Alexandre Guimarães, Allan Rocha, Márcia Nunes, Roberto Reis, Rita Pinheiro Machado, Leandro Malavolta, Leonardo Justino, Priscila Rohem, Evanildo dos Santos.

Discussion: Antonio Buainain, Annalisa Primi, Bhaven Sampat.

March 20: Afternoon
14:00 - 18:00 P.M.

Chairman: Antonio Barros de Castro
Exploring TRIPS flexibilities and its policy implications in the light of Development and Catching-up.
Position paper proposals:
1. Richard Nelson
2. Zeljka Kozul-Wright
3. Andrea Barrios
4. Cristina Possas

Discussants: Leonardo Burlamaqui, Tahir Amin, Pedro Paranaguá.

Suggestions and strategies for mutual cooperation, concluding remarks.

Participants/ MINDS workshop
1. Tahir Amin (Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge, I- MAK) *
2. Jorge Ávila (Brazilian Patent Office, INPI, Brazil, President) *
3. João Marcelo de Lima Assafim (Faculty of Law, Federal University RJ) *
4. Maria Beatriz Amorim Bohrer (World Intellectual Property Org)*
5. Shamnad Basheer *
6. Alcino Câmara Neto (Center for Law and Economic Sciences, UFRJ, Decano) *
7. Andrea Barrios (COMISEC, MERCOSUL, Presidencia de la Republica, Uruguay)
8. Antonio Barros de Castro (Braz Econ and Soc Develop Bank Director) *
9. Ana Paula Cossenza (Biomanguinhos, Fiocruz, Brazil) *
10. Maria Beatriz Bonacelli (UNICAMP, Brazil)
11. Otávio Brandelli (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil)
12. Antonio Márcio Buainain (University of Campinas, Brazil)
13. Leonardo Burlamaqui (Ford Foundation, Director) *
14. Ana Célia Castro (Centre for Law and Economic Sciences, UFRJ) *
15. Cláudia Chamas (FIOCRUZ, Brazil) *
16. Rafael Clemente (COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil)
17. Benjamin Coriat (Université de Paris, XIII, France) *
18. Ana Paula Cosenza (FIOCRUZ, Brazil) *
19. Vishwas Devaiah *(Liverpool University) *
20. José Carlos Vaz e Dias (Law Graduate Program,State University of RJ)*
21. Gilberto Dupas (IEEI, Brazil)
22. Lúcia Regina Fernandes (INPI, Brazil) *
23. Paulo Figueiredo (FGV, Brazil)
24. João Furtado (State University of São Paulo)
25. Leonardo Justino (Brazilian Patent Office, INPI, Brazil) *
26. James Love (CPTech, USA)
27. Rita Pinheiro Machado (Brazilian Patent Office, INPI, Brazil) *
28. Leandro Malavolta (Brazilian Patent Office, INPI, Brazil) *
29. Mauricio Mendonça (National Confederation of Industry, Brazil)`
30. Marcia Nunes (Federal Justice, Brazil)
31. Marcos de Oliveira (ABIFINA, Brazil)
32. Pedro de Paranaguá Moniz (Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil) *
33. Luiz Martins (FUJB, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
34. Carlos Medicis Morel (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation) *
35. Richard Nelson (Columbia University, USA) *
36. Márcia Junes (IP Judge) *
37. Ana Maria Pacon (Universidad Catolica de Peru, Peru)
38. Sérgio Paulino (INPI, Brazil) *
39. Annalisa Primi (ECLA, Chile)
40. Cristina Possas (DST/Aids, Ministry of Health) *
41. Ester Dal Poz (State University of Campinas, Brazil) *
42. Adriano Proença (School of Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
43. Priti Radhakrishnan (Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge, I-MAK) *
44. Amit Ray (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) *
45. Mario Ripper (Telemar, Brazil)
46. Allan Rocha (State University of R.J.) *
47. Priscila Rohem (INPI, Brazil) *
48. Renata Lebre La Rovere (Inst of Economics, UFRJ) *
49. Sérgio Salles Filho (Professor Titular, UNICAMP)
50. Bhaven Sampat (Columbia University, USA) *
51. Evanildo Vieira dos Santos INPI *
52. Biancca Scarpellini (MINDS, CPDA, Brazil) *
53. Paulo Bastos Tigre (IE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) *
54. Ana Toni (Fundação Ford, Brazil) *
55. Alexandre Vasconcelos (INPI, Brazil) *
56. Fábio Villares (IEEI, Brazil)
57. John Wilkinson (CPDA/UFRRJ, Brazil) *
58. Richard Kozul-Wright (UNCTAD, Geneva)
59. Zeljka Kozul-Wright (UNCTAD, Geneva) *

 

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