 The 23rd session of the Standing Committee on the Loaf Patent Meet here in Geneva, from November 30 to December 4. From the substantive point of view, discussions were extremely positive. The agenda of the meeting included a monodore achievement, a very interesting session on the issue of inventive steps and how experts from different offices assess the inventive step issue, also include a seminar that was very well received by participants and a study prepared by the secretariat on exceptional limitations among other issues that were discussed related to substantive patent law issues. Participants were extremely pleased that those substantive issues again back in the agenda of the committee. When we went to the issue of future work it was not a really easy task and the efforts of delegates and re-enact coordinator was appreciated by everybody and they were able to put together different pieces for future work of the committee in a very ambitious program but at the end, because time run out, we were not able to reach an agreement on future work. Thus we have now to engage in consultation that will tell us and show us what is the best way to move forward for the committee to continue this work in the same level of interest and enthusiasm as in the previous sessions of the committee.