E WIPO/GRTKF/IC/37/4 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH DATE: JUNE 26, 2018 Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore Thirty-Seventh Session Geneva, August 27 to 31, 2018 The protection of traditional knowledge: Draft articles Document prepared by the Secretariat At its Thirty-Second Session, held in Geneva from November 28 to December 2, 2016, the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore on the basis of document (“the Committee”) developed, of Traditional Knowledge: Draft Articles WIPO/GRTKF/IC/32/4, a further text, “The Protection and decided to transmit this text to the Thirty-Fourth Session of the Committee, in Rev. 2”, accordance with the and the work program for 2017. The Committee’s mandate for 20162017 text was made available to the Thirty-Fourth Session of the Committee as document WIPO/GRTKF/IC/34/5 and was transmitted to the 2017 General Assembly as Annex I to document WO/GA/49/11. The WIPO General Assembly in 2017 took note of document WO/GA/49/11, including its annexes, and decided that the Committee will to expedite its work, with the objective “continue of reaching an agreement on an international legal instrument(s), without prejudging the nature of outcome(s), relating to intellectual property which will ensure the balanced and effective protection of genetic resources (GRs), traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural and WIPO working documents, including WIPO/GRTKF/IC/34/4, expressions (TCEs)”, “use all WIPO/GRTKF/IC/34/5 and WIPO/GRTKF/IC/34/8, as well as any other contributions of member states, and outputs of any expert group(s) established by the Committee and related […] activities conducted under Program 4”. Pursuant to this decision, Annex I to document WO/GA/49/11 is annexed to the present document. The Committee is invited to review and comment on the document contained in the Annex towards developing a revised version thereof.
E WIPO/GRTKF/IC/37/4 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH DATE: JUNE 26, 2018 Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore Thirty-Seventh Session Geneva, August 27 to 31, 2018 The protection of traditional knowledge: Draft articles Document prepared by the Secretariat At its Thirty-Second Session, held in Geneva from November 28 to December 2, 2016, the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (“the Committee”) developed, on the basis of document WIPO/GRTKF/IC/32/4, a further text, “The Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Draft Articles Rev. 2”, and decided to transmit this text to the Thirty-Fourth Session of the Committee, in accordance with the Committee’s mandate for 20162017 and the work program for 2017. The text was made available to the Thirty-Fourth Session of the Committee as document WIPO/GRTKF/IC/34/5 and was transmitted to the 2017 General Assembly as Annex I to document WO/GA/49/11. The WIPO General Assembly in 2017 took note of document WO/GA/49/11, including its annexes, and decided that the Committee will “continue to expedite its work, with the objective of reaching an agreement on an international legal instrument(s), without prejudging the nature of outcome(s), relating to intellectual property which will ensure the balanced and effective protection of genetic resources (GRs), traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs)”, and “use all WIPO working documents, including WIPO/GRTKF/IC/34/4, WIPO/GRTKF/IC/34/5 and WIPO/GRTKF/IC/34/8, as well as any other contributions of member states, […] and outputs of any expert group(s) established by the Committee and related activities conducted under Program 4”. Pursuant to this decision, Annex I to document WO/GA/49/11 is annexed to the present document. The Committee is invited to review and comment on the document contained in the Annex towards developing a revised version thereof.
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