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New Classification Scheme For Clean Energy Patents To Facilitate Technology Transfer

By Intellectual Property Watch

Technology transfer is essential to the mitigation of climate change but empirical data on the subject is scarce, according to panellists at a parallel event to the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting. An initiative has been launched by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) to identify potential barriers to the transfer of clean technologies. Preliminary outcomes of the project were presented yesterday. One of those outcomes is a new classification scheme.

Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on December 02, 2009 (boomark / email).