CLDP, in close coordination with USAID/Mali, implemented a two-day forum on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). This program exposed participants to the importance of IP protection and its impact on Malian stakeholders. The workshop detailed enforcement aspects by both the judiciary and the customs...

CLDP, along with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), U.S. Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and in collaboration with ECOWAS, presented a three day regional workshop titled Regional IP Protection: The Border and Beyond.

As a follow-on to the 2008 IP Forum, CLDP held a two-day conference in Mali, that focused on the capacity building of Malian judges in the area of intellectual property.

CLDP, together with DOC's International Trade Administration and the World Bank, organized a three-day workshop in Maputo, Mozambique, September 9-11, 2009, entitled The Role of IP in Growing Mozambique's Economy and attended by nearly 100 participants including Mozambican judges, prosecutors, the...

In February 2009, CLDP brought together intellectual property (IP) enforcement officials from the ECOWAS region to Ghana to determine ways to protect IP in the West Africa region. Following on the strong recommendation of this workshop, Regional Intellectual Property Protection: The Border and...

CLDP organized a three-day workshop in Monrovia, Liberia for about 50 participants to facilitate the development of an Interagency Task Force.

The US Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) co-organized a three-day workshop on regional coordination in IP protection in coordination with the East African Community (EAC) and the Ugandan Ministry of Tourism, Trade and...

CLDP and U.S. Department of Commerces Office of Africa (International Trade Administration), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ), the U.S. Embassy in Dakar and the American Chamber of Commerce in Senegal (AmCham), successfully hosted the first judicial training in Senegal on...

CLDP co-organized a four-day regional workshop entitled The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Kenya: An Interagency Approach in Nairobi, Kenya from May 17-20, 2011 on best practices in interagency collaboration on IPR protection and enforcement.

Through a workshop in Bamako, Mali, May 17-18, 2011 CLDP exposed 175 enforcement officials and private sector representatives to the importance of intellectual property (IP) protection, its impact on the countrys economies and the international standards of protection to be attained, as well as...