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Alison Brimelow, President-Elect of the European Patent Office

Q. What are the IP challenges for the global economy? 
A. I use the term ‘global warming’ with a question mark in relation to the IP system, particularly the patents system.  As the next head of a major office I am very concerned about backlogs in the system…

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Jon W. Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce For Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Q. What can delegates expect from the Trading Ideas Symposium?
A. The vast growth of patents and intellectual property bring challenges, so the workload issues that we are facing in the Asia-Pacific region and throughout the world are becoming bigger and  bigger…

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Francis Gurry, Deputy Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Q. What are some of the challenges that businesses is facing in the IP environment?
A. Well I think Demand Management, the offices coping with the level of demand for intellectual property rights in particular patents these days, increasing pendency times, delays in getting their titles out, this is one challenge…

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Alison Brimelow, President-Elect of the European Patent Office

Q1. What is the benefit of a forum such as the Trading Ideas Symposium?
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Q2. What are the IP challenges for the global economy?
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Jon W. Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Q1. How can this symposium strengthen the global IP environment?
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Q2. What can delegates expect from the Trading Ideas Symposium?
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Francis Gurry, Deputy Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Q1. How will this event strengthen the IP environment at a regional and global level?
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Q2. What are some of the challenges that businesses is facing in the IP environment?
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Ms. Te-O-Kahurangi Waaka, Chair of the Maori Trademarks Advisory Council of New Zealand

Q1. What are the importance of the issues being discussed at the Trading Ideas Symposium for people in New Zealand?
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Q2. What types of IP violations do you tend to see often in relation to traditional Maori culture?
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Q3. How can countries such as Australia learn from the New Zealand in relation to the protection of traditional IP?
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Ms. Te-O-Kahurangi Waaka also sung a traditional Maori song as a demonstration of traditional IP content. (mp3, 1428kb)

Mr. Jorge Amigo Castaneda, the Director General of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (Responses in Spanish)

Q. How do the issues discussed at the symposium relate to IP issues in Mexico?
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Q2. How important is it for businesses in Mexico to increase awareness of IP issues?
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Mr. Weerawit Weeraworawit, Minister for Commercial Affairs in Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce (Responses in Thai)

Q1.  How are the issues discussed at this symposium important for Thailand and South East Asia?
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Q2. What do you see as the emerging IP issues for Thailand and the region?
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Justice Masami Ichikawa,  Judge, Tokyo District Court

Q1. How can a symposium such as this benefit business in the region?
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Q2. In your presentation at the Trading Ideas Symposium you discussed some of the important IP issues that are relevant for foreign business people wishing to operate in Japan, what are some of these issues?
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