Seminar on property rights planned

JAKARTA (JP): Directorate General of Intellectual Property Rights is slated to conduct a seminar and a series of other activities related to intellectual property between April 24 and April 26 to improve people's awareness on the protection of the rights.

Director General of Intellectual Property Rights Zen Umar Purba said on Thursday the event is a follow-up of World Intellectual Property International's (WIPO) general assembly session held in Geneva, Switzerland, in which Indonesia participated last September.

Two of WIPO's members, Aljazair and China had proposed April 26 as the world intellectual property day, he said.

The topics to be discussed at the seminar include law enforcement on copyrights and three currently endorsed laws on intellectual property rights, namely the No.30/2000 Law on Trade Secrecy, the No. 31/2000 Law on Industrial Design and the No. 32/2000 Law on Layout and Integrated Circuits. (01)