CLDP in cooperation with the State Intellectual Property Service of Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzpatent) co-organized a 2-day workshop on the role of intellectual property in economic development.

CLDPcontinues work on theDevelopment of a Judicial IP Benchbook in Sarajevo September 2011. Eight judges, both civil and criminal and representative of BiHs entities, spent the 3-day program working closely with Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Bernice Donald and Federal Judicial Center Director...

CLDP held a Eurasia Intellectual Property Customs Enforcement and Coordination Workshop in Tbilisi, Georgia on October 26 28, 2011. The 3-day program brought together customs officials from Armenia, Georgia and Turkey for interactive sessions and presentations on enforcement of IPR, counterfeit...

As part of an ongoing program of judicial capacity building and IP enforcement for Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), a delegation of eight BiH judges improved the skills necessary to fairly, efficiently, and effectively adjudicate intellectual property civil and criminal infringement cases as a result of...

CLDP and USPTO, in cooperation with the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, held a three-day workshop, on May 18-20, to increase the understanding of Ukraine's officials, specifically its law enforcement and regulatory agencies, of the most effective methods and techniques to combat the trade in counterfeit...

From April 25-April 30, 2011, CLDP conducted a Judicial Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights and International Commercial Arbitration Program at Pakistans Federal Judicial Academy in Islamabad, Pakistan for a group of 30 Civil Judges and District and Sessions Judges.

CLDP organized workshops April 27-28, 2011in Tunis, Tunisia on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Maghreb and franchising, as well as launched the French-language version of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Maghreb book published by CLDP.

CLDP led a three-day workshop in Kigali, Rwanda, June 6-8, 2011, focusing on the judiciarys role in promoting intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement throughout the East African region.The outcome of this workshop resulted in a series of recommendations for the East African...

Two federal judges, a United States Patent and Trademark Attorney, and a private sector attorney conducted a two-day workshop in Cairo for 120 Egyptian judges on the legal ramifications of the recently enacted Egyptian intellectual property law.

In response to a large backlog of patent applications, and increased volume in patent applications each year as a result of Pakistan's new recognition of pharmaceutical product patents, Pakistan's Patent Office has hired 12 new examiners. These examiners, though junior, are computer capable and...