ag-ip-news.com (Intellectual Property News Agency)AGIPNEWS2816:


GENEVA - The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced in a Tuesday press release that the Director General Dr. Kamil Idris, in the presence of Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister, Professor S. Jayakumar, opened on March 13, 2006, a diplomatic conference on intellectual property (IP) for a new treaty in the field of trademarks.

It is the first time that a diplomatic conference organized by WIPO is held in Asia. On March 14, 2006, Dr. Idris attended the first plenary session, which resulted in the election of Singapore’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, as President of the Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of a Revised Trademark Law Treaty (TLT).