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Justice Prathiba M. Singh, from the Delhi High Court, has been appointed arsenic chairperson of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Advisory Board of Judges for the 2025–2027 term.
After the assignment of Justice Singh, India astatine the United Nations successful Geneva called it “a arrogant infinitesimal for India!”
“As chair, she leads a radical of planetary judges, providing guidance and absorption to WIPO’s enactment with judiciaries successful the tract of #IP (Intellectual Property)!” India’s United Nations Mission wrote connected X.
In a statement, WIPO said it was “honoured” to invited Justice Singh, who besides serves arsenic the co-chair of the Working Group connected Regulatory Considerations connected Artificial Intelligence successful Health formed by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Apart from Justice Singh, the committee includes 9 different members who volition supply guidance and absorption to WIPO’s enactment with judiciaries. “Members of the Advisory Board service successful their idiosyncratic capableness for a defined term,” WIPO said, adding that it is “very fortunate to payment from the invaluable enactment of each the Judges who person generously served connected the Advisory Board.”
According to the WIPO, Justice Singh served arsenic the chairperson and presiding Judge of the archetypal Intellectual Property Division of the High Court of Delhi during the 2021-2022 session. She began her ineligible vocation successful 1991 and regularly appeared earlier the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court, the IP Appellate Board, and the Indian Patent Office. Currently, she serves arsenic the co-chair of the World Health Organisation’s Working Group connected Regulatory Considerations connected AI successful Health.
Justice Singh holds a instrumentality grade from University Law College, Bangalore, and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge. In designation of her outstanding contributions to the field, the “Prathiba M. Singh Scholarship” for LL.M. students was established astatine Cambridge successful 2013. She was named among the 50 astir influential radical successful intelligence spot globally for some 2021 and 2022.
The recently appointed members see Luis Antonio Camargo Vergara from Panama, Du Weike from China, Zhanar Mukhamedkaliyevna Duisenova from Kazakhstan, Mohammad ElZend from Egypt, Jean-Christophe Gayet from France, Michael Manson from Canada, Mustapher Mohamed Siyani from Tanzania, Savvas S. Papasavvas from the European Union, and Woo Sungyop from South Korea.
(With ANI inputs)
