287. The Chairman informed the Council that no communications on this matter had been received from Members. He recalled that, at the Council's meeting in March 2002, the Secretariat had been requested to update its factual background note on intellectual property and electronic commerce circulated in document IP/C/W/128 in February 1999. The representative of the Secretariat said that, although the document had been pending for some time, the Secretariat had not been able to complete this work.
