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IPO-Pakistan holds consultative sessions for National IP Strategy with WIPO
23 December 2024
The Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan (IPO-Pakistan) recently conducted consultative sessions for two days in partnership with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The sessions were designed to help develop Pakistan’s National IP Strategy.
According to a report by Pakistani business magazine Profit, the sessions discussed the following topics: Summary of Main Challenges and Recommendations for National Intellectual Property Strategy, Impact of IP Strategies on Pakistan’s Geo-Economic Situation and Way Forward for National IP Strategy Development.
At the event, IPO-Pakistan chairman Farukh Amil stressed the importance of incorporating IP education at the academic level to generate awareness among the youth.
Sana Shaikh Fikree, counsel at Vellani & Vellani in Karachi, said the introduction of IP in national curriculums applicable to schools at an appropriate level, including universities, would be beneficial.
Sana Shaikh Fikree | counsel at Vellani & Vellani, Karachi
“This, I believe, would be the most critical step to encourage the culture of IP literacy and integrity,” she said. “As an IP professional, I echo his views on the importance of equipping our youth with IP knowledge and acumen to help them protect their inventions and discoveries from misuse and misappropriation. It is absolutely necessary to educate the future inventors, entrepreneurs, writers and others as to what IP is and what value it holds for them in their entrepreneurial and professional lives and for the country at large.”
Fikree added lectures, seminars and workshops for specific audiences, such as students, inventors, artists, entrepreneurs and others, will also be helpful.
Social media, Fikree added, could also be tapped. “Social media could be effectively used as a medium to educate a larger number of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds by providing IP knowledge in regional languages of Pakistan,” she noted.
- Espie Angelica A. de Leon
