Peru submits 2022 goals at the WIPO Assemblies

By Espinosa Bellido Abogados

The Sixty-Second Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) took place from October 4 to 8, 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland. 

During the opening of the Assemblies, WIPO Director General Daren Tan said a range of intellectual property-related indicators showed great resilience despite the economic shock from the COVID-19 pandemic and WIPO's work must evolve to mirror this trend toward the increasing centrality of human innovation and creativity as principal drivers of economic growth.

Peru’s official statement of the Assemblies also highlighted the need for innovation to push the country’s economic recovery in 2022. Julián Palacín Gutiérrez, Executive President of the National Institute for the Defense of Free Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (Indecopi), focused his speech on support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Palacín Gutiérrez, said that the country will strengthen the approach of its intellectual property system mainly to SMEs and to the rural sector.

He specifically showcased the good results that WIPO’s Technology and Innovation Support Centers have had in Peru. TISC are part of a WIPO global program created in 2009 to enable innovators in developing countries, least developed countries and countries in transition to better exploit their innovative potential.

The TISC program helps innovators access patent information, scientific and technical literature and search tools and databases and make more effective use of these resources to promote innovation, technology transfer, commercialization and utilization of technologies. It currently supports over 80 countries.

The national TISC network in Peru consists of 43 TISCs hosted in different institutions -universities, research and development centers and entrepreneurial centers- situated in 18 different regions in Peru.