Intellectual Property

The Commission on Intellectual Property brings together leading experts from all over the world to promote an environment favorable to for the protection of intellectual property on national, regional and international levels. It believes that the protection of intellectual property stimulates international trade, creates a favorable climate for foreign direct investment, and encourages innovation and technology transfer.

ICC works closely with intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations involved in intellectual property policy, such as the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

Projects for 2006

• Raise awareness of the potential contribution of intellectual property protection to development and provide input to WIPO discussions on this issue.
• Contribute business views to discussions in the Convention on Biological Diversity, WTO and WIPO on the intellectual property issues relating to the protection of traditional knowledge and access and benefit sharing with respect to genetic resources
• Contribute to international discussions on outstanding and possible new TRIPS issues.
• Produce a discussion paper of intellectual property on the Internet.
• Coordinate with IC’s Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) initiative in raising awareness of the damage done by product counterfeiting and copyright piracy.

Commission Officers

• Chair: Urho IImonen, Director, Corporate Relations, Group Security, Nokia Corporation
  (Finland)
• Vice-Chairs German Cavelier, Alternate Director, Cavelier Abogados (Colombia); Peter D
  Siemsen, Senior Partner Dannemann, Siemsen, Bigler & Ipanema Moreira (Brazil); Ron
  Myrick, Partner, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, Cambridge (MA)
  (US)
• Rapporteur: Timothy Roberts, Principal, Roberts & Co (UK)
• Secretary: Daphne Yong-d'Hervé, ICC

Task Forces

• Software and Business Methods Patents
  Chair: Ron Myrick
• TRIPS
  Chair: Ivan Hjertman, European Patent Attorney, IB Interface AB (Sweden)
• Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
  Chair: David Benjamin, Senior Vice President, Anti-Piracy, Universal Music Group, New
  York
• Intellectual Property Roadmap
  Chair: Ron Myrick

For more information, please contact:

ICC United Kingdom
Tel: 020 7838 9363 Fax: 020 7235 5447
E-mail: membership@iccorg.co.uk