Roundtable meeting on IP Strategy

Date:  Tue, 2010-11-16

Roundtable meeting on IP Strategy

Ulaanbaatar – 16 November, 2010 –– M–ICP team attended the Roundtable meeting organized by the project team of Intellectual Property Office of Mongolia (IPOM) today. The purpose of the roundtable was to exchange expert views on the current state of IPR system in Mongolia, a need for improved IP system and as well as the draft outline of the IP Strategy of Mongolia. Representatives of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Mongolian Foundation of Science and Technology, Economic Policy and Competitiveness Center, National University of Mongolia and the IPOM staff participated in this meeting. Number of participants suggested that there is no need to have a separate IP Strategy for Mongolia instead it can be a part of the Mongolia’s Innovation Strategy and provided comments about what can be done towards improving the IP system of Mongolia, including the need for creation of a system that can better service innovators, creators and all other interested parties. During this meeting Ms. D. Nergui briefly demonstrated the Global Innovation Commons and explained the importance of using this global open–source knowledge developed by M·CAM which is the M–ICP international partner in addition to other available local and foreign sources for increasing country’s technology competence.