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WIPO Press Releases
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Negotiators Begin Work on Finalizing New Treaty to Improve Access to Books for Visually Impaired Persons
More than 600 negotiators from WIPO?s 186 member states began work today on finalizing a new international treaty to ease access to books for blind, visually impaired, and other print disabled people. The Diplomatic Conference to Conclude a Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities, convened by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and hosted by the Kingdom of Morocco, is meeting in Marrakesh from June 18 to 28, 2013.
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Negotiators Set to Finalize New Treaty Improving Access to Books for Visually Impaired Persons
Hundreds of negotiators representing countries around the world will gather later this month to work on finalizing a new international treaty to ease access to books for blind, visually impaired, and other print disabled people.
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World Intellectual Property Day Celebrates Tomorrow?s Creators
The theme of this year?s World Intellectual Property Day ? Creativity ? the next generation ?honors the talented and ingenious creators and innovators who are imagining how the world will look tomorrow. Intellectual property offices, associations, businesses and technology institutions and students are organizing numerous activities to mark the day, including competitions, exhibitions and public discussions.
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Seventh Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy Opens in Istanbul
Senior decision-makers from governments, law enforcement, Customs and the private sector gather in Istanbul, Turkey, for the Seventh Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, to seek innovative responses to the illicit trade in counterfeit and pirated goods.
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WIPO's PATENTSCOPE tops 28 Million Searchable Patent Documents
The addition, this month, of over ten million documents from the national patent collection of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), dating from 1790 to the present day, has expanded WIPO?s PATENTSCOPE to over 28 million searchable patent documents. The PATENTSCOPE search service is a valuable technical resource that provides access to information about new technologies which are often disclosed for the first time as international patent applications.
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