Vietnam elected to WIPO’s Programme & Budget Committee
Vietnam has been elected
for the first time to the Programme and Budget Committee of the World
Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for the 2013-15 term, a
Vietnamese official has said.
Speaking in Geneva on September 27
on the sidelines of the 51 st WIPO General Assembly, Ta Quang Minh,
Director General of the National Office of Intellectual Property further
said that since becoming a WIPO member, Vietnam has actively
participated in the WIPO development programme’s projects, raising its
role in the community, he said.
He presented two projects within
the programme framework, namely intellectual property and trademark
building for business development in developing and underdeveloped
countries, and approaching professional databases.
WIPO has provided assistance to improve capacity of Vietnam’s intellectual property system every year, he said.-VNA