Heads of the intellectual property institutions of member states of the Organization of Turkic States signed a joint declaration at the second meeting held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
The meeting was chaired by Kamran İmanov, head of Azerbaijan’s Intellectual Property Agency. Participants included Uzbekistan’s Deputy Minister of Justice Muzraf Ikramov, Olpan Abdreyeva, head of the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights at Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Justice, Maksat Mamitkanov, Kyrgyzstan’s ambassador to Baku, and Ömer Kocaman, deputy secretary-general of the Organization of Turkic States.
Muhammed Zeki Durak, president of the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office, and Erkin Yılmaz, director general of Copyrights at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, also attended the meeting.
Institutional cooperation in the Turkic world
Ömer Kocaman said cooperation in intellectual property was of strategic importance for increasing innovation and competitiveness across the Turkic world.
Kocaman said an environment should be created in which researchers and entrepreneurs can pursue innovative work and develop new ideas. He said these innovations should be effectively protected and transformed into economic and social value, and stressed the importance of further strengthening institutional cooperation among intellectual property offices.
Draft agreement and United Turkic Patent Office
Participants discussed the current state of cooperation in intellectual property within the framework of the Organization of Turkic States, as well as its future prospects.
The meeting also addressed efforts to advance work on a draft agreement concerning the legal protection of intellectual property rights and the assurance of their enforcement. Participants also exchanged views on efforts to establish a United Turkic Patent Office.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the parties signed a joint declaration expressing their commitment to developing practical cooperation focused on concrete results in the field of intellectual property.
