New WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) set to meet in March

WIPO's new Committee on Development and Intellectual Property has set its first meeting date for March 3-7 2008 in Geneva. The committee has three main tasks. First, and most immediately, it will develop a work-program to implement the development agenda recommendations made in June. It will also monitor and assess on the implementation of the development agenda, as well as undertaking further discussion on IP and development.