Welcoming addresses : SHAHARUDDIN, Dato' Hj, Secretary General, Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, Government of Malaysia; ABURAKI, Hajime, Director General, Fourth Examination Department, Japanese Patent Office (JPO), Tokyo, Japan; ALIKHAN, Shahid, Deputy Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); Inaugural address by the chief guest : Dato Haji Abu Hassan bin Haji Omar, Honorable Minister for Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, Government of Malaysia; ABURAKI, Hajime. Industrial property and national economic and technological development; SEOK YONG KHANG. Role of the industrial property administration in government economic policy formulation and implementation; SAPALO, Ignacio S. Awareness building and human resource development; ALEXANDER, Boyd. Computerization of industrial property administration; NAKA, Takahiro. Industrial property and enterprise development; ROYAL, Malcolm. Development of the profession of industrial property attorney and agent; MA LIANYUAN. Promotion of inventive and innovative activity; SUGDEN, Alec, ROYAL, Malcolm. Acquisition and transfer of technology; SUGDEN, Alec. Legal framework for effective industrial property rights protection; JAIYA, G S. Patent documentation and information services;.