organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in cooperation with the Government of the Kingdom of Swaziland and with the financial assistance of the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA); Index : The elements of industrial property; General introduction to trademarks; The legal forms and conditions of the protection of inventions : patents; The role of patents in an industrial development strategy; Licensing of patents; methods and arrangements for the commercial transfer and acquisition of technology; Technological information contained in patent documents and its use; Commercial use of industrial designs; importance for developing countries; The Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property : main features and revision; The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and its importance to developing countries; WERKMAN, Casper J. The requirements of an industrial property office for the processing of trademark applications; Promotion of inventive activity and technological innovation; The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and its development cooperation program; The Madrid Agreement concerning the international registration of marks and the 1989 protocol; ZIKONDA, Anderson R. African regional industrial property organization (ARIPO);.