“Transfer of copyright ownership” means an assignment, mortgage, exclusive license, or any other conveyance, alienation, or hypothecation of a copyright, or any of the exclusive rights comprised in a copyright, whether or not it is limited in time or place of effect, but not including a non exclusive license; “Transmission program” means a body of material that, as an aggregate, has been produced for the sole purpose of transmission to the public in sequence and as a unit. “Transmit a performance or display” means to communicate it by any device or process whereby, images or sounds are received beyond the place from which they are sent. “Utility models” means an exclusive right granted for an invention which allows the right holder to prevent others from commercially using the protected invention without his authorization for a limited period of time. “WIPO” means World Intellectual Property Office. “WPPT” means WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty of 1996. “WTO” means World Trade Organization. PART II THE LIBERIA INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE (LIPO) SUB-PART A: FORMATION AND NATURE Establishment, Power, Duties, and Immunity Section 4 §4.1. Establishment of the Liberia Intellectual Property Office (LIPO) There is hereby established in the Executive Branch of Government a corporate semi-autonomous agency with perpetual succession and a common seal to be known as “Liberia Intellectual Property Office”, comprising a central administration and two departments, Copyright Department and Industrial Property Department, under the policy direction of the Minister of Commerce to administer all intellectual property matters. Its headquarters shall be in the City of Monrovia. §4.2. Powers and Duties of LIPO The powers and duties of the office shall be to: (a) sue and be sued; (b) take, purchase or otherwise acquire, hold, charge or dispose of movable and immovable property; (c) enter into contracts; 8