On September 17-19, 2019, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, CLDP brought together government officials from Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan with advisors from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and the Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (DOC/ITA) for the first meeting of the Central Asia Expert Level Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights. The program began with opening comments from Zeba Reyazuddin, Deputy Assistant USTR followed by presentations from each country’s delegation regarding recent developments in laws and regulations promoting intellectual property rights protection within their respective countries. Despite the fact that delegates to the meeting were meeting for the first time, the country reports were followed by robust discussion and question and answer sessions among the delegates and between the advisors and participants.