At the end of 2014, WIPO
reported that it is was in consultation with Tanzania in relation to the
formulation of its IP Strategy and IP Policy.[1] Since Tanzania has a
dual national IP system that caters for the Mainland and Zanzibar separately,
it is likely that the IP policy will be bifurcated. Indeed, the Business Registrations and Licensing
Agency (BRELA) that administers IP for the mainland has published an action
plan for harnessing the IP potential of Tanzania (here) that states that two IP policies will be
developed. Tanzania
was one of the six countries in which WIPO piloted the Development Agenda
Project DA_10_05 entitled ‘Improvement of National, Sub-Regional and Regional
IP Institutional and User Capacity’. The outcome of this project is the Methodology for the Development of National Intellectual Property Strategies Toolkit which was published in 2014 and consists of the following four tools (available here)
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Tool 2 - Baseline Questionnaire
Tool 3 - Benchmarking Indicators
Tool 4 - National IP Strategies (NIPS) Online Survey
[1] WIPO Committee on Development and IP (CDIP) Revised Report on the Measurement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) in other United Nations Agencies and Specialised Agencies , and on the Contribution to WIPO to the Implementation of the MDGs (November, 2014) CDIP/14/12 Rev. Annex II, 8.
