Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) and Intellectual Property Organisation (IPO), Pakistan have entered into an agreement to facilitate SMEs in respective ambit of their service. Mr Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi, while expressing his views on this occasion said IPO facilitation desk at SMEDA was set up to strengthen relationship between SMEDA and IPO-Pakistan for extending IP awareness and support to SMEs. IP help desk has been established as a pilot project, he said, adding that desk will be receiving IP related applications and extending legal advice to SMEs.
On the success of this pilot project, such desks would also be opened at other offices of SMEDA in future, he added. Chairman IPO-Pakistan said areas of further collaboration will be found-out after the mutual consultation of experts of both organisations. He said IPO is looking forward to develop relations with different organisation for creating awareness about IP rights.
What role IPO can play when IPO itself has no legal status
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