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The Commission on Intellectual Property contributes world business views to governmental and intergovernmental debates on key intellectual property issues facing the international business community.

	ICC publishes tenth edition of popular IP Roadmap Click here for more information
	ICC organizes lunch discussion at WIPO in Geneva on "The use of IP for economic development through sports" Click here for more information

New policy statements

	Cooperation between patent offices: prior art searching of patent applications 28 June 2010

	ICC Submission to the Max Planck Institute study on the overall functioning of the trademark system in Europe 4 June 2010

	Nature, traditional knowledge and capacity building 18 September 2009 ICC submission for the 8^th Ad Hoc Open Ended Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing in November 2009 addressing specific areas of the IR including: nature, traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources and capacity building.

	Pathogens and the International Regime on Access and Benefit-sharing 11 September 2009 ICC submission on pathogens and pests and the International Regime on Access and Benefit-sharing.

	Climate Change and Intellectual Property 10 September 2009 The ICC Commissions on Environment and Energy and Intellectual Property examine the role of existing and new technologies in dealing with climate change and highlight how intellectual property systems spur innovation and contribute to the development of technological solutions.