APAA 59th Council Meeting Workshop Intellectual Property from a global perspective: What it takes to make it click? Venue: Makati Shangri La Hotel, Manila, Philippines Time: 14:00- 16:30 on Sunday, 13th November 2011 Table Showing the Diversity of Languages, Legal Systems and State amongst the 24 APAA Jurisdictions Kwong Chi Keung Sit Fung Kwong & Shum
The 17 Recognized Groups of APAA CountryOrigin of legal systemOfficial language Australia[British Common Law] English Bangladesh [British Common Law and Islamic Law] factbook/geos/bg.html factbook/geos/bg.html Bangla, also known as Bengali Hong Kong [British Common Law] English & Chinese India [British Common Law, but also Hindu, Muslim and Christian Law on separate personal legal codes] Hindi & English Indonesia [Roman-Dutch Law and customary law] Indonesian Japan[originally Franco-German civil code but after Second World War incorporated Anglo-American elements] Japanese Korea [civil law system based on German Civil Code] & Korean Macau [primarily Portuguese law] Chinese & Portuguese Malaysia [British Common Law and Islamic law] Malay 2
The 17 Recognized Groups of APAA CountryOrigin of legal systemOfficial language New Zealand [British Common Law] New Zealand English, Te Reo Maori (the Maori language), and New Zealand Sign Language Pakistan [British Common Law and Islamic law] Urdu & English Philippines [Spanish Civil Code with Anglo-American influence] Filipino and English Singapore [British Common Law] Chinese (Mandarin), English, Malay, Tamil Sri Lanka[mixture of Roman Dutch Law and Common Law] & Sinhala & Tamil Taiwan [German Civil Code] Standard Chinese (Mandarin) Thailand [self-developed legal system- mixture of civil and common law] & Standard Thai Vietnam [Communist legal theory and French civil law] Vietnamese 3
The 7 Additional Jurisdictions with APAA Members CountryOrigin of legal systemOfficial language Bhutan[the semi-theocratic Tsa Yig legal code and English common law] Dzongkha Brunei [British Common Law and Islamic law] Malay Cambodia[Civil law system (influenced by the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia) customary law, Communist legal theory, and common law] factbook/geos/cb.htmlhttps:// factbook/geos/cb.html Khmer Laos [French Civil Law] world-factbook/geos/la.htmlhttps:// world-factbook/geos/la.html Lao Mongolia[civil law system influenced by Soviet and Romano-Germanic legal systems] factbook/geos/mg.htmlhttps:// factbook/geos/mg.html Mongolian Myanmar [British common law and customary law] factbook/geos/bm.html factbook/geos/bm.html Burmese Nepal[British Common Law and Hindu legal concepts] factbook/geos/np.html factbook/geos/np.html Nepali 4
WIPO/WTO/UN links : 1. _reduction.pdf (PCT list filing fee discount) _reduction.pdf 2. org7_e.htm (Members self-classify themselves when they enter into the WTO) org7_e.htm 3. m#developed (UN Statistics Division site reference) m#developed 5
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