WIPO Holds Summer IP School in Ukraine

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held a summer school on intellectual property in Odessa, Ukraine, between July 20 and 30, 2009.

The event was jointly organized by the Ukrainian Intellectual Property Office, the Odessa National Legal Academy, and the WIPO Worldwide Academy.

The objective of the summer school was to enable senior university students and young professionals to acquire deeper knowledge of intellectual property, and to gain an appreciation of IP as a tool for economic, social, cultural and technological development and to reveal the role WIPO plays in the global administration of IP.

The school offered lectures of prominent IP experts from the WIPO and Ukraine, as well as case studies and group discussions on selected topics.

For more information, please contact Jovana Miocinovic in our Balkan Regional Office.