Sound Bites from the APEC Trading Ideas Symposium

NZ Audio Sound Bites from the APEC Trading Ideas Symposium

Issues by the APEC Trading Ideas Symposium

Sydney, Australia, February 2, 2007 -- The Chair of the Maori Trademarks Advisory Council of New Zealand, Ms. Karen Te-O-Kahurangi Waaka, has presented her views on emerging challenges in the intellectual property (IP) environment at the APEC Trading Ideas Symposium in Sydney this week.

Audio bites from Ms. Te-O-Kahurangi Waaka and other major speakers at the symposium are available for download and use by the media at: www.tradingideas.org/Audio.php

Taking place on January 28-30, the Trading Ideas Symposium is the first business to government dialogue of APEC Australia 2007 and will be the most significant IP event in the APEC region for the year.

At the Symposium some of the most influential IP policy planners and managers from around the world met to discuss the potential for business to capitalize on their IP while highlighting the pitfalls of inadequate IP planning.

Ms. Te-O-Kahurangi Waaka spoke at the session on "Emerging IP issues in the Asia-Pacific" and provided her views firstly on the value of the meeting, what types of IP violations she sees in New Zealand in relation to traditional Maori culture and how other countries such as Australia can learn from the New Zealand on the protection of traditional IP.

Ms. Te-O-Kahurangi Waaka also sung a Maori song as a demonstration of traditional IP content that is available for download.

Keynote speakers at the Trading Ideas Symposium included:
-- Jon W. Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
-- Jack Chang, Senior IP Counsel - Asia, General Electric (China) Co. Ltd
-- Alison Brimelow, President-Elect, European Patent Office
-- Francis Gurry, Deputy Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

The symposium was attended by more than 500 business people, policy planners and IP executives from around the APEC region and other countries of the global economy.

Visit www.tradingideas.org for additional information.

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