46. The representative of the Secretariat said the seminar in question had been organized in the form of a roundtable, essentially for senior officials from the patent offices in the Asia-Pacific area. Such a seminar was organized annually by WIPO with financial assistance from the Japanese Government. The roundtable, in which he had participated, had largely been devoted to issues of implementation of the TRIPS Agreement. He recalled that two representatives from India had been present at the roundtable, one from the private sector and the other from the government. If the representative of India so wished, additional information on the seminar including papers presented at the seminar could be made available to him.
