IP Enforcement and WCO Provisional Standards Employed by Customs for Uniform Rights Enforcement (SECURE)

Dr. Xuan Li, Coordinator of the Innovation and Access to Knowledge Programme (IAKP), delivered a presentation on "WCO Provisional Standards Employed by Customs for Uniform Rights Enforcement (SECURE)" at the strategy workshop on Intellectual Property and Enforcement hosted by the Open Society Foundation (OSI) in London on June 2-3, 2008.

The workshop was held in the context of a number of domestic, bi-lateral and multilateral policy agendas on intellectual property enforcement has recently been placed. Some of the proposed measures may seriously violate fundamental rights of consumers and citizens as well as inhibit the development of new, innovative (business) models for knowledge production and dissemination.