A/RES/65/23. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2010

• Resolution Number: A/RES/65/23
• Year: 2010
• Session: 65th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/65/23

General Assembly Distr.: General

10 January 2011

Sixty-fifth session

Agenda item 77

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2010

[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/65/465)]

65/23. UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions:

Supplement on Security Rights in Intellectual Property

The General Assembly

,

Recognizing

the importance to all States of efficient secured transactions

regimes in promoting access to secured credit,

Recognizing also

the need to make secured credit more available and at lower

cost to intellectual property owners and other intellectual property right holders, and

thus the need to enhance the value of intellectual property rights as security for

credit,

Noting

that the

UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions

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generally

applies to security rights in intellectual property, without inadvertently interfering

with the basic rules and objectives of law relating to intellectual property,

Taking into account

the need to address the interaction between secured

transactions law and law relating to intellectual property at both the national and the

international levels,

Recognizing

that States would need guidance as to how the recommendations

contained in the

UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions

would apply

in an intellectual property context and as to the adjustments that need to be made to

their laws to avoid inconsistencies between secured transactions law and law

relating to intellectual property,

Noting

the importance of balancing the interests of all stakeholders, including

grantors, whether they are owners, licensors or licensees of intellectual property,

and secured creditors,

Expressing its appreciation

to intergovernmental and international

non-governmental organizations active in the fields of secured financing and

intellectual property, in particular the World Intellectual Property Organization and

the Hague Conference on Private International Law, for their participation in and

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1 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.09.V.12.