INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AND AFFILIATIONS

To date, IIPSJ has conducted CLE and other collaborations with colleges and universities in the Caribbean and South Africa.

Our Foreign Scholar Residency Program exposes participants to US practices that inform their professional work.

IIPSJ is an official NGO Affiliate of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

IIPSJ has issued position statements and participated in programs and discussions with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act (ACTA), and Trans-Pacific Partners (TPP) agreement

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Blog Post: IIPSJ Attendance at the 52nd WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC)

May 27, 2026

(March 4 – 13, 2026, Geneva Switzerland) By Dalindyebo Shabalala, Academic Co-Director and Professor of Law, Suffolk IP Center Executive Summary IIPSJ attended the 52nd session of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore in March 2026. Represented by Prof. Dalindyebo Shabalala (Suffolk Law IP Center), this was the next step in IIPSJ’s engagement at WIPO, expanding the work already being done by Dr. Metka Potocnik in the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) and the WIPO General Assemblies (see https://iipsj.org/programs/iipsj-international/). After the long in gestation success of the WIPO Treaty on Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge (see https://www.wipo.int/en/web/traditional-knowledge/wipo-treaty-on-ip-gr-and-associated-tk) this session was the first after a difficult negotiation for renewal of the mandate of the IGC at the WIPO IGC in June 2025 and the WIPO General…

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Programming

In 2004, IIPSJ participated in a continuing legal education endeavor conducted at the Norman Manley Law School, as part of a broader effort to establish an academic and professional exchange relationship between the University of the West Indies and the Howard University School of Law.

Initially, American and Caribbean practitioners would develop and present intellectual property CLE seminars at UWI’s various campuses, and in later stages of the program, UWI legal scholars and other Caribbean attorneys would present seminars and lectures at HUSL and at the various American professional associations, corporations, and law firms which sponsor IIPSJ’s professional programs and scholarly projects.

The success of this program has prompted IIPSJ to undertake the development of an ongoing collaboration intended to provide continuing legal education in the field of intellectual property practice.

Residency

IIPSJ has also supported artistic initiatives by Caribbeans living in the D.C. area.
The IIPSJ Fellow in Residence for 2010, Shiveta Sooknanan, has helped develop the IIPSJ Caribbean Program.

Programming

In cooperation with the HUSL South African Overseas Study Program, both IIPSJ DIrector Lateef Mtima and IIPSJ Associate Director Steven Jamar have taught international IP transactions at the University of the Western Cape in Capetown, South Africa.

IIPSJ hopes to develop this relationship further in coming years.

Foreign Scholar Program

Our first participant was IIPSJ Foreign Scholar in Residence Takayuki Kaneda. Mr. Kaneda is a Patent Examiner in the Fourth Patent Examination Department, Video System Division, Japan Patent Office. While in residence at IIPSJ he studied the operations of the USPTO.

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