Opening addresses : Mr. Ignacio S. Sapalo, Director General of Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks, Manila, Philippines; Mr. Yuji Kiyokawa, Commissioner, Japanese Patent Office (JPO), Tokyo, Japan; Mr. N.K. Sabharwal, Director, Development Cooperation and External Relations Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland; Mr. Rizalino S. Navarro, Honorable Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry, Government of Philippines, Manila, Philippines; KIYOKAWA, Yuji. Recent international developments and trends and their implications for national industrial property systems; OTTEN, Adrian. An overview of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS); SUGDEN, Alec. Standards concerning the availability, scope and use of industrial property rights under the TRIPS Agreement; KIRK, Michael. Enforcement of industrial property rights and related provisions under the TRIPS Agreement; SUGDEN, Alec. Implications of the TRIPS Agreement on treaties administered by WIPO and cooperation between WIPO and WTO; GOULD, Rick. Modernization and rationalization of industrial property legislation and administration; LIANYUAN, Ma. Automation of industrial property administration; DOMINGO, Rico V. Towards greater participation of the judiciary and enforcement agencies in industrial property rights protection; GOLDRIAN, Hans. Industrial property information and documentation - current trends and future prospects; KIRK, Michael. Effective management and use of industrial property for enterprise development; GOLDRIAN, Hans, MODH DIN, Adilah. Promoting inventive and innovative activities in industrial, scientific and academic institutions and commercialization of their inventions; TSUJI, Shingo. Strengthening the role of non-governemental and voluntary organizations in the field of industrial property; GOULD, Rick, KI-RYUNG, Kim. Human resources development - new challenges and opportunities;.