It is with pleasure that we draw the attention of our readers to the following information relating to an upcoming event organised by our good friends at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). 

Seminar on the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs, at the headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, November 10, 2016

The Hague Registry of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has the pleasure to inform you that a Seminar on The Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs:  Advantages and Functioning of an Ever-Expanding System will take place in Geneva, at the headquarters of WIPO, on November 10, 2016, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in Room A, and will be conducted in English. 

The objective of this Seminar is to introduce the Hague System and how it works, with an emphasis on the advantages and benefits of this expanding system to IP practitioners, design‑innovative companies and independent designers.

A general information document (document WIPO/HS2/16/INF/1) and the provisional program (document WIPO/HS2/16/INF/2 Prov.) are available in English, on the WIPO website at http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=39954.  Other working documents will be made available on the WIPO website in due course. 

In order to facilitate their registration, participants are required to register online before November 3, 2016, at https://www3.wipo.int/eventregistration/hague.xhtml?lang=en.

That's not all: WIPO is really keen to involve members of the wider community of Hague users. Accordingly, we learn this too:

If you wish to intervene in the future as speaker or suggest any topic of interests to be covered in the programs, please contact us because your participation, opinions, ideas and experience count for us!