Star Africa
Posted by: APA
Morocco and the World Organization of Intellectual Property (WIPO) on Thursday signed in Rabat a partnership agreement aimed at developing services for inventors with a view to helping them in their drive to protect international patents.Under the agreement, signed by the Director General of WIPO, Francis Gurry and the Director General of OMPIC, Adil El Malki, in the presence of the Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade, Mohamed Abbou, both parties agreed to jointly combat counterfeiting.
WIPO and OMPIC have decided to cooperate under the terms of the agreement in the development of the Moroccan institutional framework to strengthen the fight against counterfeiting and raise the operational level of public institutions and national economic operators together with the enhancement of its organizational capacity.
This cooperation accord also intends to give a fillip to investment from emerging countries like India, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and Thailand.
The World Organization of Intellectual Property (WIPO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations, whose mission is to develop a balanced and accessible international Intellectual Property system that rewards creativity, stimulates innovation and contributes to economic development.
