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Internet Governance Forum Wraps Up
Posted on November 19, 2009The 15-18 November Internet Governance Forum finished work yesterday, and the official press release and wrap-up notes have been circulated by the United Nations, which organises the annual talk shop. There is no single body governing the making of internet policy and the forum is barred from engaging in policymaking...
Special Report: IP Protection Secondary To Support For Small African Innovators
Posted on November 19, 2009Systematic and sustained programmes aimed at identifying and supporting African innovative talent may be a key part of Africa?s technological evolution, according to researchers and young entrepreneurs interviewed by Intellectual Property Watch. In the second part of a two-part series highlighting innovation challenges in Africa, Intellectual Property Watch focuses on harnessing and nurturing African innovation talent.
WIPO Development Committee Deepens Look At Technology Transfer, Coordination
Posted on November 19, 2009How to achieve effective technology transfer stirred up discussion this week at the World Intellectual Property Organization Committee on Development and IP (CDIP). Meanwhile, members are conducting informal negotiations to bridge differences over what kind of mechanism is needed to coordinate the Development Agenda as a whole.
TRIPS Council Annual Report: Extension Of Health Amendment Deadline Looms Again
Posted on November 18, 2009The World Trade Organization General Council, the WTO?s highest-level decision-making body in Geneva, on Tuesday received the annual report for the WTO committee on intellectual property rights. In it were descriptions of the past year?s IP debates and recommendations for extensions of deadlines.
US Court To Decide On Amended Google Book Settlement
Posted on November 18, 2009On 13 November, an amended settlement agreement was filed with the Court by the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and Google in Authors Guild v. Google, and a motion for preliminary approval of the amended settlement, according to the Authors Guild website...
Public Health Roundup: Progress Seen, Investment Needed
Posted on November 18, 2009New business models might bring down vaccine prices and public-private partnerships could open the way to new treatments to deadly tropical diseases but some countries are lagging behind in their investments to reach their health targets, according to reports from public health organisations holding meetings in different parts of the world.
Coordination Tops Issues At WIPO Development Agenda Meeting
Posted on November 17, 2009Deciding on a mechanism to ensure the effective implementation of the World Intellectual Property Organization Development Agenda will be the biggest area of discussion at this week?s WIPO meeting on IP and development, sources have said. But discussion also will focus on specific implementation projects.
Brazil Issues Retaliation List Of US Products; IP-Protected Items In Next Round
Posted on November 17, 2009Brazil has announced the list of 222 American products that could suffer retaliation with tariff rates of more than 100 percent of the value when imported to Brazil. The list could be followed by another including potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in non-tariff items related to intellectual property rights such as lower-priced patented pharmaceuticals.
UN Report From Internet Governance Forum In Egypt
Posted on November 17, 2009An official report has been circulated from the first day of the 15-18 November United Nations-led Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Among the developments was the announcement by Tim Berners-Lee of a World Wide Web Foundation - “an international, non-profit organisation that strives to advance the Web as a medium [...
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Library Of Alexandria A Symbol Of Egypt?s Efforts To Lead On Knowledge Access
Posted on November 16, 2009ALEXANDRIA - Dining on fresh fish beneath a golden sunset overlooking the Mediterranean beneath which lie the remains of the ancient Library of Alexandria, the conversation turns to the invention of written language. A light-hearted debate breaks out between an Egyptian and a Syrian over the origins of the first alphabet several thousand years ago, but is left for the time being when the Syrian asserts, ?We invented the alphabet, you invented writing...
Ministers Discuss Climate Change In Copenhagen This Week
Posted on November 16, 2009On 16-17 November, the Danish minister for climate and energy is hosting a preview to the high-profile conference in United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change meeting in Copenhagen in early December. Over 40 countries are participating in this week?s event, according to a Danish ministry document [pdf], including large economies such as Brazil, China, [...
Lisbon Treaty To Bring Changes In EU Delegations, IP Measures
Posted on November 16, 2009This month?s signing by the Czech Republic of the Lisbon Treaty updating the rules of the European Union will bring a few noticeable changes to the way the EU conducts policymaking activities, and to its focus on intellectual property rights.
Conférence de Copenhague: incertitude sur les droits de propriété intellectuelle
Posted on November 13, 2009BARCELONE ? Les négociations sur le climat se sont achevées le 6 novembre après une semaine de discussions. Malgré les assurances données par la plupart des délégations sur le fait que tout était possible lors de la Conférence de Copenhague sur le changement climatique qui aura lieu en décembre, l?incertitude demeure sur de nombreuses questions qui concernent notamment le financement, la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre, le transfert de technologie et la nature de l?accord qui sera conclu à Copenhague.
Los derechos de PI se encuentran en los bloques de salida hacia Copenhague, pero aún reina incertidumbre en torno al tema
Posted on November 13, 2009BARCELONA ? El 6 de noviembre culminaron las negociaciones sobre el cambio climático que se extendieron durante una semana, y, si bien la mayoría de las delegaciones aseguraron que todo es aún posible en la conferencia sobre cambio climático que se celebrará en diciembre, continúa habiendo incertidumbre en torno a numerosas cuestiones...
Trilateral Patent Offices To Launch New Work Sharing Projects
Posted on November 13, 2009The Patent Prosecution Highway, an information sharing network between certain patent offices, has recently had its potential expanded thanks to a new agreement between two of the ?trilateral? IP offices, according to the group?s site [pdf]. In addition to the EPO, the trilateral group includes the Japan Patent Office and the United States Patent and [...
Les pays en développement s?investissent de plus en plus dans le programme d?application des droits à l?OMPI
Posted on November 13, 2009Selon des sources ayant participé à la réunion du Comité consultatif sur l'application des droits de l?Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI), qui s?est tenue du 2 au 4 novembre, l?implication proactive des pays en développement vis-à-vis du programme de travail sur l?application des droits de propriété intellectuelle s?est accentuée.
Los países en desarrollo impulsan el trabajo en materia de observancia de la PI en la OMPI
Posted on November 13, 2009Los países en desarrollo han aumentado su participación proactiva en el programa de observancia de la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI), según los participantes de la reunión del Comité Asesor sobre Observancia, que se celebró del 2 al 4 de noviembre.
China Draft Law Proposes New Patent Standards
Posted on November 13, 2009A new set of patent regulations involving standards has been proposed by China’s Standardization Administration, which represents the country to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and which organises national and international standardisation projects, according to GTW Associates, a US-based international standards consultancy...
WIPO IT Committee’s Proposed Broad Mandate Raised Questions
Posted on November 12, 2009Countries were split on North/South lines at a recent meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Information Technology (SCIT) over whether to accept a proposed broad agenda for future work that some feared would open the door to policy discussions beyond its mandate.
Hands-On Or Hands-Off? ITU Debates Which Way for ICT Regulators
Posted on November 12, 2009The United Nations International Telecommunication Union concluded its ninth Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR) with a call by industry leaders to governments to approach regulation with a ?light touch? and ?allow markets to evolve naturally,? according to an ITU press release...
US Universities Adopt Principles For Medicines Access, Tech Transfer
Posted on November 11, 2009Several leading universities in the United States as well as the National Institutes of Health have adopted a set of principles regarding intellectual property and research intended to aid dissemination of medical technology. The Statement of Principles and Strategies for the Equitable Dissemination of Medical Technologies [pdf] pledges a commitment to effective technology transfer in developing [...
November Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available
Posted on November 11, 2009The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Edition features top news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the international IP community, news briefs and more. The November edition is now available for subscribers.
Farmers? Advocacy Groups Rejected As Observers In Plant Rights Organisation
Posted on November 10, 2009The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) has denied two farmers? advocacy organisations observer status to its governing Council on grounds that they have not demonstrated expertise relevant to the intergovernmental body?s work, stirring concern that opposition groups are being denied participation...
Generics Producers: Criminal Sanctions Can Stop Counterfeit Drugs
Posted on November 10, 2009The European Generic medicines Association today issued a call for criminal sanctions rather than technology to stem the flow of counterfeit drugs. This will stop counterfeiters, not bar-codes, said Antonyia Parvanova, a member of the European Parliament, according to an EGA press release...
Eduardo Pisani Of Bristol-Myers Squibb Is New IFPMA Director General
Posted on November 10, 2009The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations has appointed a new director general, Eduardo Pisani, to take office 1 January 2010.
EU Telecom Package Agreed With Safeguards But Three-Strikes Still Possible
Posted on November 10, 2009A compromise was found last week between the European Parliament and European Council on ?internet access safeguards? in the last remaining open issue in the European Union telecommunications package, according to the Parliament. But public interest concerns remain that restrictive punishment measures might still be possible.
Study Flags Internet Censorship As Open To Challenge At WTO
Posted on November 10, 2009Censorship of content over the internet by national governments, ostensibly on moral or security grounds, could be subject to challenge at the World Trade Organization for hindering trade in services, according to a working paper [pdf] published by Brussels think-tank the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE)...
Challenge To GlennBeck?RapedAnd?Murdered?AYoungGirl?In1990.com Loses WIPO Dispute
Posted on November 10, 2009Conservative US radio talk show host Glenn Beck, known for bad-mouthing others on radio and opposition television station Fox News, has lost a case at the World Intellectual Property Organization trying to force the takedown of website parodying him, www...
Interview with Martin Khor, South Centre
Posted on November 09, 2009Martin Khor, executive director of the intergovernmental South Centre on critical issues facing the global South related to intellectual property - such as climate change, and the challenge of global IP infrastructure - and what the South Centre?s plans are to address them.
“Most Important” Biodiversity Access/Benefit Meeting
Posted on November 09, 2009The UN Convention on Biological Diversity is this week undertaking what it said could be the most important negotiation in its history. The CBD is negotiating details of a fair and equitable access and benefit sharing (ABS) regime ? in particular, the use of traditional knowledge as related to genetic resources and capacity building and [...
US Groups Duel Over Access To ACTA Negotiation
Posted on November 09, 2009During the most recent negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in Seoul, Korea on 4-6 November, about which no information is available, US industry and public interest groups issued statements taking widely divergent positions on progress of the talks.
Panel Calls For Disclosure Of Industry Methodology Assessing Losses To Piracy
Posted on November 09, 2009Intellectual property rights enforcement has risen on the global trade and IP agenda, but greater transparency in the evaluation of piracy and counterfeiting and assessments of broader social implications may be needed, according to speakers at a side event last week.
WTO To Extend Moratorium On Non-Violation Cases, E-Commerce Taxes
Posted on November 06, 2009World Trade Organization members reached agreement today to recommend extension of a moratorium on customs duties on electronic commerce, and a moratorium on challenging other WTO members under intellectual property rules for actions not in violation of the WTO, according to a WTO official.
IP Enforcement Work At WIPO Gets Boost From Developing Nations
Posted on November 06, 2009Developing countries this week increased their proactive involvement in the enforcement agenda at the World Intellectual Property Organization, according to participants at the 2-4 November Advisory Committee on Enforcement meeting.
IP Rights In Starting Blocks For Copenhagen, But Issue Still Uncertain
Posted on November 06, 2009BARCELONA - Weeklong climate negotiations came to an end today, and despite the assurance from most delegations that everything is still possible in the Copenhagen climate change conference in December, many issues remain in doubt. Among them are finance, emissions reduction, technology transfer, and the nature of the agreement to be built in Copenhagen.
IP Rights In A Quiet Tug-Of-War At UN Climate Change Negotiations
Posted on November 05, 2009BARCELONA ? At this week?s global climate talks, efforts are being made to trim references to intellectual property rights in relation to technology transfer from the body of a non-paper and relegate much of it to an appendix. But developing countries have asked that those measures be brought back into the main text...
Pirate Party Gains Second Seat In EU Parliament
Posted on November 05, 2009This week’s ratification of the European Union Lisbon Treaty by the Czech Republic put in place the treaty and and with it a new Parliament member from the Swedish Pirate Party. The second Pirate Party seat will be occupied by the 22-year-old Amelia Andersdotter, who will become the youngest Member of the European Parliament, according [...
ACTA Internet Chapter Leak Signals Far-Reaching Copyright Policy
Posted on November 05, 2009As governments negotiating the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) meet in Seoul this week, public interest concern has surfaced over leaked information on internet enforcement.
Technology Debated In UNFCCC Barcelona Talks; IP To Follow
Posted on November 05, 2009BARCELONA - After only a short break from the Bangkok climate talks, some 30 days before the Copenhagen climate change conference in December, delegates are back at the negotiating table for the last stretch of intense discussions. Among the issues discussed by delegates from 181 countries, technology appears preponderant, including the way to encourage environmentally sound technology (EST) innovation, and to transfer that technology to developing countries...
MPAA On Broadband, Net Neutrality: Regulation Good, Not Good
Posted on November 04, 2009The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) this week urged the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ?to make the protection of creative content online a core and guiding principle" of its new National Broadband Plan. But its view suggests it would support stronger regulation over the internet, an approach it has strongly opposed in other areas.
WIPO Power Struggle Looms Over Development Agenda Coordination
Posted on November 04, 2009A struggle over the power and reach of the World Intellectual Property Organization Development Agenda may be looming as members of the UN agency begin to take control of implementation with differing views. Key developing countries say members must not only focus on specific projects but also on the broader agenda for change at WIPO...
US Senate Letter Urges IP Rights In Climate Talks
Posted on November 04, 2009A bipartisan group of 42 of the 100 United States senators sent a letter to US negotiators in global climate talks in Barcelona this week urging the protection of intellectual property rights over any technologies developed to address climate change. In the 2 November letter, available here [pdf], they cautioned against allowing developing countries to [...
Governance Sought For Climate Tech As Bill Gates Applies For Patent
Posted on November 04, 2009BARCELONA - As a global climate change convention is being discussed in Barcelona, the US House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology scheduled a hearing on 5 November about the implications of large-scale climate intervention, also called geoengineering...
US Court Opens Door To Challenges Of Gene Patenting
Posted on November 03, 2009US federal district court ruled yesterday that patents on human genes can be challenged in court. This unlocks a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT). The lawsuit was filed against the patenting of two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer...
Rest Of Europe About To Yield To HADOPI?s Siren Song?
Posted on November 03, 2009Concerns are rising among activists about the impending spread to the rest of Europe of French HADOPI-like legislations punishing alleged copyright infringers on the internet with a suspension of internet connection after three alleged violations (”three strikes”)...
UNCITRAL Negotiating IP Finance Draft Text This Week
Posted on November 02, 2009The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group VI [security interests] is meeting in Vienna this week to work on the draft annex to the Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions, which focuses on intellectual property rights.
Canada Finds Patents No Help For Poorest In Need Of Medicine
Posted on November 02, 2009Canada’s National Bureau of Economic Research today released a report on the relationship between patent protection for pharmaceuticals and investment in development of new drugs since the negotiation of the 1994 World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)...
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Posted on November 01, 2009The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this week opened up the root zone for non-Latin country-code top level domains (internationalised or IDN ccTLDs). Starting 16 November, ICANN will accept applications for ccTLDs in Chinese, Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean or Arabic characters...
Medicines Access Again Captures Attention At WTO As Progress Urged In Round
Posted on October 30, 2009Access to medicine and preservation of biodiversity topped the agenda at the World Trade Organization Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Council meeting this week, as a new alleged drug seizure in France, a concern over a largely-unused amendment to TRIPS intended to help developing countries gain access to medicine, and a renewed mandate on biodiversity at the World Intellectual Property Organization influenced the issues on the table.
Bilski Impact On Biotech Seen As Minimal; Experts See Court Shift
Posted on October 29, 2009The intellectual property community is anxiously awaiting the United States Supreme Court?s reaction next month in the closely watched Bilski v. Kappos case, a legal feud over the validity of a patent covering a method of commodities trading. The outcome of the case could have broad implications for the patentability of business methods and software, which could potentially wallop the technology industry...
Changing Winds For Gene Patenting In the US? Stakeholders React To Draft Report
Posted on October 29, 2009A United States health department advisory group this month produced a new draft report on gene patenting and licensing with recommendations suggesting that excessive patenting can limit patients? access to gene testing and might not foster genetic research...
US Chamber of Commerce Takedown Notice Targets Parody Site
Posted on October 23, 2009The United States Chamber of Commerce industry group has issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice against a ‘parody’ website that mocked the Chamber, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Earlier this week, a fake press briefing purportedly from the business lobby made international headlines for announcing an apparent about-face in the Chamber’s controversial opposition [...
French HADOPI Law, Now Complete, Can Brandish Its Weapons
Posted on October 23, 2009The French Constitutional Council yesterday gave its ruling about the constitutionality of a French bill aiming to protect literary and artistic intellectual property rights online, and decided that the bill was in conformity with the French Constitution, asking only for a minor amendment, according to the Council ruling available here (in French)...
Kappos? Early Days At USPTO: Many Changes, Few Funds
Posted on October 23, 2009Reform of the United States patent system, better patent quality and greater international cooperation among patent offices are just a few of the jobs new United States Patent and Trademark Office chief David Kappos has on his plate.
Betty King Nominated To Be Next US Ambassador In Geneva
Posted on October 23, 2009Betty Eileen King of New York has been nominated next United States permanent representative to the United Nations and other international organisations in Geneva, an ambassador-level posting, the US Mission announced. The nomination has been sent to the US Senate for confirmation...
US Federal Circuit May Offer Patent, Tech Policy Guidance For High Court
Posted on October 23, 2009WASHINGTON, DC - The United States Federal Circuit Court of Appeals should act more like a teacher to the Supreme Court and do a better job explaining its policy reasoning when it makes decisions on innovation-related cases, a top patent law academic said late Tuesday...
European Commission Paper On Single Market For Creative Content
Posted on October 22, 2009The European Commission on 22 October published a “reflection paper,” available here (pdf), highlighting the challenges of creating a European digital single market for creative content, according to a press release. The paper was released at the same time as a study published by two European consulting firms and the Institute for Information Law at [...
Perpetual Protection Of Traditional Knowledge ?Not On Table? At WIPO
Posted on October 22, 2009Protection of traditional knowledge under intellectual property rights may have a time limit, though determining duration of protection measures will be more difficult than it is with Western scientific innovation, World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis Gurry said yesterday.
Disagreements Remain In WHO Talks On Virus-Sharing After Chan Proposal
Posted on October 22, 2009World Health Organization members this week offered views on the global system for virus- and benefit-sharing for pandemic influenza following recently proposed solutions by Director General Margaret Chan aimed at changing the current, ad-hoc model to a more predictable, sustainably-funded system.
Industry View: Can Content Survive Online? (Podcast)
Posted on October 21, 2009A forum called the Intellectual Property Colloquium has posted an open-access podcast of a discussion about online business models with Brad Smith, Microsoft general counsel, Scott Martin, executive vice president of Paramount Pictures, and Dan Cooper, vice president of business and legal affairs at MySpace...
Advocates Warn Against ?Monsantosizing? Of Global Food Sources
Posted on October 21, 2009As the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food prepares to present his report today at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, a global appeal is being filed by farmers and environmental organisations against patents on plants and animals derived from conventional breeding.
European Commission Communication On Copyright Online
Posted on October 21, 2009The European Commission on 19 October published a communication on copyright in the knowledge economy that sets out the plan for changes in European copyright over the coming month and in 2010. Three issues the Directorate General Internal Market and Directorate General Information Society want to tackle are: preparation of a EU-wide legal instrument on [...
Academics Debate Patent “Exhaustion Doctrine”
Posted on October 20, 2009Can a patent-holder ask for royalties from third-party purchasers? The United States Supreme Court said ‘no’ in the 2008 landmark case Quanta Computer Inc. v. LG Electronics Inc. (IPW, US Policy, 25 June 2008). But what does this decision mean for both patent law and rights holders? Five academics - Richard A...
Lamy Reports On TRIPS Consultations
Posted on October 20, 2009Director General Pascal Lamy of the World Trade Organization reported today to member states on his most recent consultations on outstanding issues of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). He was speaking in his capacity as chairman of the high-level Trade Negotiations Committee...
EFPIA Unveils Anti-Counterfeit Authentication System
Posted on October 20, 2009A pilot project intended to counter the challenge of counterfeit medicines entering the legitimate supply chain has been launched this week in Sweden by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations. The project involves individually identifying packs of medicine through the use of a small “data matrix” which, when scanned, can give pharmacists information such [...
Spurring Local Innovation In Africa By Improving Access To Information
Posted on October 19, 2009Greater awareness of the existence of open access information resources for innovation and making the information easily accessible and relevant to developing country users could help spur innovation in these countries, according to top technical assistance providers and local innovators.
German Internet Blocking Bill Suspended
Posted on October 18, 2009In a “turn back the clock” action, the German Liberal Party (FDP) - which is negotiating with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Party (CDU) on the programme of the coalition government - is pushing a suspension of the blocking bill some feared would hamper information flow on the internet...
Panel Calls For An Ethical Framework For IP And Climate Change
Posted on October 16, 2009BANGKOK - Normal negotiation strategy is unlikely to result in an impact on climate change, since the most important stakeholders in fighting it - not yet born - have no seat at the negotiating tables, said a panel last week in Bangkok. An ethical approach is a better way to achieve results, speakers said, and an ethical take on intellectual property rights and alternative forms of innovation may have a place in new climate-friendly economic models.
How The “Machine-Or-Transformation” Test In Bilski Is Failing
Posted on October 16, 2009Charles Macedo and Norajean McCaffrey write that in the upcoming Supreme Court case on the Bilksi ?machine-or-transformation? test, the Federal Circuit departed from Supreme Court precedent, and they suggest how to put the law of patent-eligible subject matter back on track.
October Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available
Posted on October 16, 2009The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Edition features top news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the international IP community, news briefs and more. The October edition is now available for subscribers.
ACTA Text Revealed To 42 Select Insiders
Posted on October 15, 2009In the weeks leading up to the next negotiating session (first week of November in Seoul) of the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, 42 Washington, DC-area insiders, mostly from industry, were invited by the United States Trade Representatives to see copies of its text on the internet, according to a new report...
European Union Prepares A New Intellectual Property Rights Strategy
Posted on October 15, 2009Intellectual property rights and their protection will be high on the agenda of the European institutions in the upcoming legislature, representatives from the European Commission, European Council and the European Parliament said at the first European Innovation Summit in Brussels yesterday...
Agenda For Next WIPO Traditional Knowledge Meeting Online
Posted on October 15, 2009The next meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore will be from 7-11 December. The draft agenda is online and available here. The committee recently received its strongest mandate yet from this year’s General Assemblies (IPW, WIPO, 3 October 2009).
Pour les experts, l?accès à des médicaments sûrs est une question de santé publique et non de propriété intellectuelle
Posted on October 15, 2009Selon les participants à un récent événement organisé par Open Society Institute, les initiatives de lutte contre la contrefaçon pourraient limiter l?accès aux traitements sans pour autant réduire le problème des médicaments contrefaits, en particulier dans les pays en développement.
WIPO Members Step Up To Implement Development Agenda
Posted on October 15, 2009World Intellectual Property Organisation members are preparing to take the reins of the Development Agenda as it becomes clear that implementation success will depend on their actions. And their actions must not only be focused on specific projects such as patent databases but also on the broader spirit of the agenda for change at WIPO, key developing countries said.
Global Oversight For ICANN; US Role In Core Infrastructure Unchanged
Posted on October 01, 2009A mere ?affirmation of commitments? (AoC) between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the United States Department of Commerce has replaced the decade-old joint project agreement in place in different forms since ICANN started technical coordination of names and numbers on the net in 1998.
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Role Of WIPO On Traditional Knowledge In Question
Posted on September 30, 2009Failure to resolve the deadlock over traditional knowledge at the World Intellectual Property Organization would call into question the organisation?s role, some member states said this week, as the chair of the General Assemblies tabled a text in an attempt to bridge major gaps that still remain...
Regulators’ Role Seen Rising As E-Content Tied To Devices
Posted on September 29, 2009When Amazon.com remotely deleted George Orwell?s ?1984" and ?Animal Farm? from its Kindle e-books, it stirred up a hornet?s nest of complaints about privacy, the potential erosion of copyright users? rights and censorship. Is the shift to ?tethered devices? a real cause for concern or much ado about nothing?
ICANN’s New US Contract And New Top Level Domains - It’s Not Over
Posted on September 29, 2009With a day to go before the joint project agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the United States Department of Commerce (DoC) is set to expire, calls for continuous US oversight role have been reiterated by US politicians and private-sector representatives who reason that this oversight is especially needed in the face of the planned introduction of new internet top-level domains like ...
Assemblées de l’OMPI : le sort des savoirs traditionnels en jeu
Posted on September 28, 2009Le problème, selon certains participants, est que ces ressources ont été allouées à des projets qui n'ont pas encore été approuvés. Le Comité du développement et de la propriété intellectuelle (CDIP) s?est réuni en novembre, puis en Avril, mais la prochaine réunion budgétaire n?aura pas lieu avant juillet, ce qui a amené de nombreux pays en développement à se demander comment des projets approuvés en novembre pouvaient être mis en ?uvre rapidement alors même qu?ils ne disposent pas des ressources budgétaires nécessaires.
Bangkok Climate Change Meeting Aims For Draft Deal For Copenhagen
Posted on September 28, 2009BANGKOK ? Government officials and private stakeholders were urged Monday to strike differences from the 280 pages of negotiating text in preparing a draft that could become a global agreement on climate change in December 2009.
El destino de los conocimientos tradicionales: una decisión clave en las Asambleas de la OMPI
Posted on September 25, 2009La Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI) debe tener la capacidad de fijar normas para la innovación, desde los avances de la tecnología más recientes hasta los sistemas de conocimientos tradicionales, si desea conservar su reconocimiento en la formulación de políticas, expresó hoy el Director General en la apertura de la Asamblea General anual del organismo de las Naciones Unidas.
WIPO Approves CHF64 Million Conference Hall; Intensive Informals Held On Traditional Knowledge
Posted on September 25, 2009How to handle the deadlocked negotiations on traditional knowledge remains a sticky decision at this year?s World Intellectual Property Organization General Assemblies, with four proposals on the table and informal meetings ongoing in advance of a formal discussion next week...
Former USTR Official Espinel Nominated US IP “Czar”
Posted on September 25, 2009A variety of industry and nongovernmental groups today applauded the Obama administration’s announcement that Victoria A. Espinel would be nominated to be the first White House Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator. Espinel is a former assistant US Trade Representative for intellectual property and innovation who led US trade negotiations on IP...
USPTO-African Regional IP Organization Agreement
Posted on September 25, 2009The US Patent and Trademark Office today announced a bilateral agreement with the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), the mainly English-speaking regional IP group in Africa. The agreement is focused on enforcement and protection, along with ease of filing for foreign and African patent applicants, according to a USPTO release...
US Acts To Preserve Internet Neutrality; European Debate Heats Up
Posted on September 24, 2009As the United States is moving to ensure that internet (net) neutrality is preserved in that country, some are hoping other regions of the world will take notice, particularly the European Union.
Panel: IP Offices Must Be Engaged To Implement Development Agenda
Posted on September 23, 2009The World Intellectual Property Organization will need the help of national intellectual property offices - and need to listen to their needs as well - if Development Agenda implementation is to be effective outside of Geneva, participants on a panel said last week.
UN Conference Pushes Plant Breeding; Others See Food Security In Jeopardy
Posted on September 23, 2009Participants at a recent United Nations conference on the role of new plant varieties and seeds in agriculture agreed that access to genetic resources and the protection of intellectual property rights are essential to sustain plant breeding. But key opponents not invited to the meeting claim that plant breeding will endanger biodiversity, sustainability and ultimately food security.
Google Book Settlement Hearing Adjourned
Posted on September 23, 2009The final fairness hearing of a class action lawsuit against Google related to its book-scanning project has been adjourned at the request of the plaintiffs, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. A memorandum in support of the motion to adjourn says that as of 8 September about 400 objections to the settlement [...
IP Protection Commitment In US Innovation Strategy
Posted on September 22, 2009America?s ?economic growth has rested for too long on an unstable foundation,? and it is now necessary to ?redouble our efforts to give our world-leading innovators every chance to succeed,? reads the text of a White House innovation strategy that President Obama presented yesterday at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York...
Fate Of Traditional Knowledge A Key Decision At WIPO Assemblies
Posted on September 22, 2009The World Intellectual Property Organization must be able to set norms for innovation, from the latest development in technology to traditional knowledge systems, if it is to retain its relevance in policymaking, said its director general at the opening of the UN agency's annual General Assemblies today...
Intellectual Property Is Driving Agricultural Innovation, Says CropLife
Posted on September 21, 2009Javier Fernandez of CropLife Latin America argues the importance of protection of regulatory data and its relevance to the bid for food security.
Candidates For EPO President On Campaign Trail At WIPO Conference
Posted on September 21, 2009A recent two-day conference of the World Intellectual Property Organization on IP infrastructure also served as a campaign platform of sorts for several candidates vying to be the next head of the European Patent Office in Munich starting in mid-2010.
“IP Authorities” Pay Homage To PCT, Call For Action On Harmonisation, Backlog
Posted on September 21, 2009Improved searches and application quality and a focus on backlog reduction are necessary to improve the patent system, patent authorities concluded at a World Intellectual Property Organization symposium last week. This will require patent offices around the world to work together, and the WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty, most speakers said, is the path forward for global patent coordination.
WIPO: Patents, Trademarks Tied To Economic Cycles But Crisis Impact Uneven
Posted on September 20, 2009World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis Gurry was accompanied publicly for the first time by the United Nations agency?s first economist as they presented data Friday showing the positive correlation between patent applications and economic cycles.
EU Sets Out H1N1 Flu Strategy; Partners With Pharma On Medicines Development
Posted on September 20, 2009Several strategy papers laying out a plan to aid European Union member states in responding to the pandemic outbreak of H1N1 influenza were published last week by the European Commission, as Europe enters its fall flu season. Meanwhile, a partnership between the Commission and the European pharmaceutical industry announced a second call for proposals, aimed at increasing research and development of medicines for cancer as well as infectious disease.
Opposition To Aspects Of Google Book Project Settlement Mounts
Posted on September 18, 2009Google?s court settlement in the United States that could allow the search engine giant to sell scanned books online is increasingly coming under fire prior to the final hearing in the matter next month. Government entities and groups in the United States and in Europe that oppose the settlement could, at the very least, temporarily derail Google Book Search, according to sources.
Human Rights, Multi-Stakeholder Approach Are European Priority For Internet Governance
Posted on September 18, 2009Stakeholders gathered this week to discuss a European approach to the governance of the internet in the lead-up to the next global forum on the issue. The second European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) took place in Geneva on 14-15 September and brought together some 200 representatives.
EPO Announces Four Candidates For Next President
Posted on September 17, 2009The European Patent Office today announced four people in the running to replace its current president, Alison Brimelow, who is not seeking another term after hers expires on 30 June 2010.
Brimelow Stresses Need For Better Patent System; Discusses Harmonisation
Posted on September 17, 2009The way the patent system is currently structured rewards slowness and low quality, but the needed changes will have to include a new revenue model, a top European patent official said today.
France: Domain-Name Registrars Exempt From Trademark Liability
Posted on September 17, 2009A French court recently decided to exclude domain name registrars from liability for trademark infringing domain names registered by their customers in a case involving 13 large French companies against Luxembourg domain name registrar EuroDNS. The Third Chamber of the “Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris” by the judgment on 26 August (in French) confirmed [...
Last Cheaper AIDS Medicines For Rwanda Under WTO
Posted on September 17, 2009The 18th of September will mark the last shipment of lower-cost HIV/AIDS medicines from Canada to Rwanda under a World Trade Organization-sanctioned arrangement. The first shipment of the antiretroviral combination drug manufactured by Canadian pharmaceutical company Apotex was sent in September 2008, the second one had to take place in September 2009...
Technology Transfer Will Be Part Of Copenhagen Climate Deal
Posted on September 16, 2009COPENHAGEN - Technology transfer is bound to be part of a possible new international climate deal at the high-level meeting in Copenhagen in December, according to officials. Meanwhile, international economists have concluded that such transfers constitute a win-win situation for developed and developing countries when it comes to combating climate change.
France’s HADOPI 2 Passes
Posted on September 15, 2009[Correction: Before the bill can become law, the National Assembly and Senate must combine their passed bills, according to sources] French legislators today approved, by a vote 285 to 225, a pioneering bill (in French) allowing authorities to cut off internet access and impose fines on those found to have downloaded copyrighted material without authorisation...
Brevetage des gènes: la résistance se renforce aux Etats-Unis et en Europe
Posted on September 14, 2009L?action en justice intentée récemment contre le Bureau américain des brevets et des marques de commerce par une entreprise de biotechnologie et une fondation concernant des brevets sur les gènes associés au cancer a permis d?attirer l'attention de l?opinion internationale sur la question du brevetage des gènes humains, une pratique contre laquelle un groupe d'associations influentes a exprimé son opposition le 27 août.
New EU Communication On Increased IP Enforcement
Posted on September 14, 2009The European Commission Trade Directorate today adopted a "communication on enhancing the enforcement of intellectual property rights" within the European Union internal market that aims at greater coordination but stops short of new legislative measures.
Will KSR’s Effect On Small Molecule Patents Be Limited?
Posted on September 14, 2009Four recent Federal Circuit decisions suggest that small molecules are special and may be relatively unaffected by the US Supreme Court KSR decision, write Photon Rao and George Best.
Brasil-EE UU: la resolución de la OMC autorizaría medidas de retorsión cruzada contra DPI
Posted on September 13, 2009Según un informe arbitral que la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) ha publicado en el contexto de una diferencia entre el Brasil y los Estados Unidos (EE UU) sobre subvenciones al algodón americano, el primer país tendría derecho a adoptar contramedidas en materia de comercio en contra de EE UU y, en determinadas circunstancias, a suspender obligaciones en materia de propiedad intelectual (PI).
Une entreprise d?Antigua relance le débat sur la mise en application de la rétorsion croisée prévue par l?Accord de l?OMC sur les ADPIC
Posted on September 13, 2009Un site Internet proposant de la musique et des films en téléchargement illimité pour un prix dérisoire cherche à tirer profit d?une décision d?arbitrage prise en 2007 par l?Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) concernant un différend entre l?île antillaise d?Antigua-et-Barbuda et les États-Unis, par laquelle Antigua a reçu l?autorisation de suspendre certaines de ses obligations en matière de propriété intellectuelle vis-à-vis des États-Unis...
Survey: US 18th In Global IP Protection
Posted on September 13, 2009The United States, often seen as toughest on other nations for their perceived failure to protect US intellectual property rights, was itself 18th in the world in such protection last year, according to the latest World Economic Forum survey on competitiveness...
20,000 March In Berlin As Protests Erupt Against European Surveillance
Posted on September 12, 2009Over twenty thousand people today marched through the German capital of Berlin protesting against the rise of surveillance legislation in their country and the European Union in recent years. Under the motto “freedom not fear,” 167 organisations, including major trade unions, associations of lawyers, judges, journalists, doctors and civil rights activists, called on the German [...
Funds For US State Dept. Global IP Enforcement Training
Posted on September 11, 2009The United States State Department has received requested funding to operate 11 projects totalling nearly $4 million in fiscal year 2009 “combat transnational crime and promote the protection of intellectual property rights worldwide,” according to State...
IP, Technology And The Next Green Revolution For Africa
Posted on September 11, 2009Achieving poverty alleviation, particularly in rural areas, will require aid to agriculture, on which three-quarters of the world's poorest depend for their livelihoods. Intellectual Property Watch asked Kanayo Nwanze of the International Fund for Agricultural Development to explain how to best create incentives for technology development aimed at helping smallholding farmers, how to achieve agricultural growth without damaging the environment, and how to use intellectual property to forward those goals.
?Positive Noises? On Resuming Talks On WIPO Audiovisual Performances Treaty
Posted on September 09, 2009The World Intellectual Property Organization this week may have witnessed the beginnings of a resumption of high-level negotiations on an international treaty on the protection of audiovisual performances.
Non-Commercial Groups Oppose Changes In ICANN Committee
Posted on September 09, 2009Structural reforms within the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that altered the representation of non-commercial interests of internet users in ICANN policy development are ?seriously flawed,? according to the body?s non-commercial users? group...
Third Revision Of Patent Law In China
Posted on September 08, 2009Wenting Cheng writes: More than 20 years have passed since the Patent Law in the People?s Republic of China came into force in 1985. The third amendment of Chinese Patent Law will enter into force from 1 October, 2009. This article explores the major changes in substantive requirements for patent grant, post grant enforcement and adaptation of Chinese patent law to international norms on the protection of intellectual property.
WTO Ruling On Brazil Cotton Opens Door To Cross-Retaliation Against IP Rights
Posted on September 07, 2009The World Trade Organization has issued an arbitration report in a dispute between the United States and Brazil over US cotton subsidies, giving Brazil the right to use trade countermeasures against the US, and in certain circumstances to suspend intellectual property obligations.
Early Drafts Show Disagreement On UN Framework For Climate Services
Posted on September 04, 2009Senior officials from well over 100 nations at a five-day United Nations conference on Thursday issued a succinct declaration committing them to establish a global framework on the delivery of products and services related to climate change. But earlier negotiating versions of the declaration from the week obtained by Intellectual Property Watch show substantive disagreement and the removal of pages of draft text.
USPTO-Pfizer Workshop On IP & Innovation In Mumbai
Posted on September 04, 2009The United States Patent and Trademark Office is teaming up with US pharmaceutical company Pfizer to hold a workshop in Mumbai, India on 9 September on “intellectual property and innovation in the pharmaceutical industry.” Presentations at the nongovernmental session will include Dominic Keating of the US embassy in New Delhi speaking on “incremental innovation and [...
Punke Nominated As WTO Ambassador; Stoll To Succeed Doll As US Patent Commissioner
Posted on September 03, 2009The Obama administration on Thursday announced several key changes related to intellectual property rights and trade.
Company Pushes Debate On Implementing WTO TRIPS Cross-Retaliation
Posted on September 03, 2009A website providing unlimited music and movies for a token price is seeking to take advantage of a 2007 World Trade Organisation ruling between the Caribbean nations of Antigua and Barbuda and the United States, which granted Antigua the right to suspend some US intellectual property rights obligations...
Novartis Persists In Challenge To Indian Patent Law; India Rejects More AIDS Drugs Patents
Posted on September 02, 2009Undeterred by two previous decisions by Indian authorities holding that under Indian Patent Law, its leukaemia drug - Gleevec is not patentable, Novartis now wants to take the fight to the Indian Supreme Court. Meanwhile, also this week, sources say Indian authorities rejected applications for patents on two HIV/AIDS drugs, opening the way for cheaper generic versions to be developed and marketed.
Gene Patenting In Question In The US, EU; New Resistance Effort
Posted on September 02, 2009A recent lawsuit involving patents on human genes related to cancer brought against the United States patent office, a biotechnology company and a foundation has attracted international attention to the issue of gene patenting, and on 27 August a group of influential associations voiced their opposition to such patents.
UN Climate Report Envisions Modified TRIPS As Governments Seek Progress
Posted on September 01, 2009Scientists and bureaucrats meeting this week on climate change and weather data are struggling to move global discussion past general declarations of recognition and commitment to address environmental change. One bump under the rug at the United Nations conference is rights over environmental technologies, and a new UN report released Tuesday made a strong call for investment and a focus on flexibilities in and possible changes to intellectual property rights rules to help developing countries access the information and technologies they need.
Digital Library Europeana Said To Be Europe?s Answer to Google Books Settlement
Posted on August 28, 2009Google?s settlement in the United States of copyright infringement claims by authors and book publishers faces strong opposition from European publishers. The deal does not apply to books outside the US and one Google official has suggested the need for a similar service in Europe...
Informal UN Climate Talks Indicate Continued Divergence On IP Issues
Posted on August 28, 2009With 15 scheduled negotiating days left before a meeting in Copenhagen meant to set the global sustainability agenda for the next several years, the head of the United Nations agency tasked with coordinating the global effort to fight climate change has issued an urgent call for more speed toward convergence on all parts of the upcoming climate change agreement, especially on IP-related text - lest the entire thing fall through.
Open Source Textbook Service Sees Interest Jump
Posted on August 28, 2009A United States publisher of open source college textbooks - licensed under Creative Commons and fully remixable - has seen interest in its service increase more than 30-fold in the past several months, according to a press release [pdf] by the company...
India May Be Nearing Dispute Settlement With EU Over Generic Drug Seizures
Posted on August 28, 2009Ongoing concerns in India that their legitimate generic drug shipments are being delayed as potential counterfeits while in transit through Europe may reach the dispute settlement body at the World Trade Organization, according to sources.
EU, US Bristle As Drug Innovators Pay To Delay New Generics
Posted on August 25, 2009Authorities in the European Union and the United States have recently taken a tougher stance against reverse payments - patent settlements whereby, according to many competition experts, dominant drug companies buy off potential rivals.
Indian High Court Rejects Bayer Complaint For Patent Linkage
Posted on August 21, 2009Indian generics manufacturer Cipla can get marketing approval for its generic cancer treatment Soranib, the Delhi High Court ruled Tuesday, and the Indian drug regulatory authority does not have to check its patent status first. The court this week rejected a complaint by drug multinational Bayer against the Union of India, the Drug Controller General of India and generic drug producer Cipla...
Law Professors Debate Bilski
Posted on August 19, 2009A potentially paradigm-shifting legal case that could restrict the granting of business method patents in the United States, Bilski v. Doll has attracted the attention of policy makers world-wide, who expect its outcome to influence the international patent system (IPW, US Policy, 31 July 2009)...
WTO Panel Rules China Must Open To Foreign Content
Posted on August 13, 2009A World Trade Organization panel has found China has not respected some international trade obligations in a dispute brought by the United States alleging unfair treatment by China of US publications and audiovisual products, the WTO said on 12 August...
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La revisión del caso Bilski por parte de la Corte Suprema de los EE.UU. podría repercutir en todo el sistema de patentes
Posted on August 12, 2009El pasado mes de octubre, un tribunal de apelación de los Estados Unidos modificó drásticamente la ley de patentes, acercando así las normas de este país a las de otros en lo relativo a las invenciones que se pueden patentar. El Tribunal de Apelación del Circuito Federal (apodado a menudo el ?tribunal de patentes? de los EE...
Le réexamen de l?affaire Bilski par la Cour suprême américaine pourrait avoir des répercussions sur le système des brevets
Posted on August 12, 2009En octobre dernier, aux États-Unis, l?arrêt rendu par une cour d?appel a bouleversé la loi fédérale sur les brevets, en comblant le fossé qui la séparait des législations d?autres pays sur les critères de brevetabilité des inventions. La Cour d?appel du tribunal fédéral (Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, parfois surnommée « tribunal de la propriété intellectuelle ») a annulé sa propre décision qui faisait école jusque là...
August/September Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available
Posted on August 11, 2009The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Edition features top news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the international IP community, news briefs and more. The August/September edition is now available for subscribers.
Members Of Human Rights Expert Committee At UN Question Patents On Food
Posted on August 07, 2009A group of experts working as a think-tank for the United Nations Human Rights Council raised the issue of patents and food at a meeting this week. Meanwhile, a new report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food expected to be available at the end of August will focus on the intersection between intellectual property and the human right to food.
Congress Members Seek Permanent ICANN-US Link
Posted on August 05, 2009A group of US congressional members have sent a letter to US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke calling for a temporary arrangement between the Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (which manages technical aspects of the internet domain name system) to be made permanent...
ECOSOC Wraps Up With Discussion Of Environmental Governance Framework
Posted on August 04, 2009The influential United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) ended its 2009 substantive session on 31 July, after a month-long coordinating body meeting in Geneva which yielded resolutions on several topics such as public health, science and technology, human rights, environment and sustainable development issues.
IP Dispute Could Threaten Skype
Posted on August 01, 2009Online auction site eBay, the owner of popular, proprietary voice-over-internet protocol software Skype, has warned that the service might not continue if it loses an intellectual property dispute with Joltid, the company from which it licences Skype’s core technology...
US Supreme Court Review Of Bilski Could Reverberate Through Patent System
Posted on July 31, 2009Last October, a United States appellate court shifted the country?s patent law dramatically, moving the nation closer to other countries? standards on what inventions can be patented. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals (often called America?s ?patent court?) overruled its own seminal precedent and sharply cut back on the types of methods and processes that are eligible for patent protection...
Financial Services, Patent Experts Seek More Certainty On Business-Method Patents, Bilski Case
Posted on July 31, 2009NEW YORK - Patent lawyers from financial services companies and other firms this week said they are hopeful that change at the US Patent and Trademark Office will bring solutions to their concerns with the business method patents, application backlogs, patent quality problems, transparency and other issues.
Proponents Fight To Keep IP Issues At High Level At WTO
Posted on July 30, 2009With governments looking to close the long-stalled Doha Round of trade liberalisation talks in 2010, what will happen to remaining disagreements on intellectual property issues is still unclear. But proponents of amending the World Trade Organization intellectual property agreement reasserted the need to have them addressed.
ECOSOC Adopts Resolutions On Digital Divide, HIV/AIDS, But Hurdles Remain
Posted on July 29, 2009The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) this week is concluding a month-long coordinating body meeting in Geneva by adopting resolutions on a range of public policy issues such as internet connectivity, science and technology, and HIV/AIDS.
Los miembros de la OMPI someten a examen el proyecto de presupuesto por programas de 2010-2011
Posted on July 29, 2009Los Estados miembros de la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI) analizaron minuciosamente esta semana el proyecto de presupuesto por programas de 2010-2011 propuesto por la Secretaría de la OMPI, el primero que refleja plenamente el reajuste estratégico del organismo de Naciones Unidas elaborado por el Director General Francis Gurry...
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USPTO Nominee Kappos Appears To Clear First Senate Hurdle
Posted on July 29, 2009The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday appeared to look favourably upon David Kappos, the Obama administration nominee for undersecretary of Commerce and director of the US Patent and Trademark Office. But in the process, Kappos showed possible weaknesses in separating himself from his job at IBM and the need for international diplomacy on IP enforcement.
Rumoured New US Ambassador To UN In Geneva A Major Obama Fundraiser
Posted on July 29, 2009A Northern California academic and a top national fundraiser for President Obama may be the next US ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, according to sources. Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, wife of eBay CEO and President John Donahoe, holds a law degree, two master?s degrees and a PhD in a variety of subjects, and is rumoured to be the nominee for the post empty since January.
OMPI : examen à la loupe du projet de programme et de budget 2010-2011
Posted on July 29, 2009Cette semaine, les États membres de l?Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI) ont procédé à un examen minutieux du projet de programme et de budget pour l?exercice 2010-2011 proposé par le Secrétariat de l?Organisation, le premier à refléter entièrement le réalignement stratégique que Francis Gurry, son directeur général, entend opérer au sein de cette institution spécialisée de l?ONU.
Webcast: Senate Hearing On USPTO Director Kappos
Posted on July 29, 2009The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing to consider the nomination of David J. Kappos to be the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the US Patent and Trademark Office. The hearing is being held on Wednesday, 29 July, at 10h00 am in Washington, DC (16h00 Geneva time), and will [...
Being Sued By The RIAA
Posted on July 28, 2009Joel Tenenbaum, who is involved in a high-profile challenge of the music industry’s suit against him on the charge of unauthorised sharing of music, has written an editorial about his experiences of intimidation tactics. It is available from the Guardian here...
Academics Debate How To Release Revolutionary Power Of Development Agenda
Posted on July 28, 2009The Development Agenda at the World Intellectual Property Organization is a ?potentially revolutionary? agreement, according to a book released this month, but whether it will fulfil that promise depends on its implementation into concrete practice, said a panel of academics at the book?s launch.
OECD: Tech R&D, Innovation Hard-Hit By Economy, But May Be Turning Up
Posted on July 28, 2009Information and communications technology (ICT) industries have been hard hit by the economic crisis but vary in the degree to which they have been able to sustain spending on research and development, according to a new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...
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US Biologics Debate Heats Up As Congress, Obama, Wrangle With Healthcare Reform
Posted on July 27, 2009As the United States Congress prepares to recess in early August, there's hope - and dread, depending on which ?side? of the debate you?re on - that legislation creating a regulatory pathway for follow-on biologics may be pushed through as part of the broader healthcare reform package.
EU Report Finds Fault With US Barriers To IP
Posted on July 27, 2009The European Commission on Monday released a report finding fault with a number of United States practices related to intellectual property rights policy, on copyright, geographical indications, trademarks and patents. The report is an answer, one might say, to the US Special 301 report that criticises US trading partners it deems unilaterally to be insufficiently protecting its companies? IP rights.
LDCs Commit To Use IP For Development At WIPO; Use Of Exceptions, Flexibilities Omitted
Posted on July 27, 2009Officials from least developed nations on Friday agreed to a strategy for using intellectual property to encourage local innovation, protect national cultural and genetic resources, attract foreign direct investment, and spur development at a World Intellectual Property Organization forum on the use of intellectual property for ?prosperity and development...
Lamy To Meet With WTO Membership On IP Issues; Breakthrough Unlikely
Posted on July 24, 2009World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy on Monday is expected to inform members that months of informal consultations on two key intellectual property issues on which a majority of governments would like a clear negotiating mandate have not yet resulted in an agreement...
WIPO Members Scrutinise Draft 2010-2011 Programme, Budget
Posted on July 23, 2009The member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization this week carefully analysed the draft programme and budget for 2010-2011 proposed by the WIPO secretariat ? the first one fully reflecting the strategic realignment of the UN organisation by Director General Francis Gurry...
Drop In R&D Funding For HIV Vaccine
Posted on July 21, 2009Global research funding for HIV vaccine decreased by 10 percent in 2008 from the previous year, representing the first time the levels have fallen since investment trends have been tracked, according to a new report. The report was released this week by the HIV Vaccines and Microbicides Resource Tracking Working Group, an initiative of UNAIDS [...
Entangled In Amendments, HADOPI 2 Hits Summer Break
Posted on July 21, 2009The French National Assembly vote on a bill to protect literary and artistic intellectual property rights online has been pushed back to September, according to a source at the Assembly. The bill passed the French Senate on 8 July (IPW, IP Burble, 9 July 2009)...
ACTA Talks May Open Up, Slightly
Posted on July 20, 2009The latest round of negotiations for an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) held in Rabat, Morocco on 16-17 July resulted in the announcement that after closed-door discussions on transparency, the only agreement reached on transparency was to release draft agendas of future closed-door negotiating rounds...
Innovation Policy Needs National Focus, Use Of TRIPS Obligations, Panellists Say
Posted on July 20, 2009Innovation is a main driver for economic growth and development for developing countries, said speakers at an event focusing on innovation in Brazil, India and South Africa. But although innovation is increasing and is a priority in developing economies, one expert said invention capabilities remain in the hands of historical players and governments need to seek innovative policy responses.
Shift In IP Top Posts At WHO
Posted on July 17, 2009From the ip-health listserv Friday, an internal communication from World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan announcing a change in staff responsible for innovation and intellectual property issues. On 1 August, Elil Renganathan of Malaysia, the current director of Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, will move to become director of Planning, Resource Coordination and [...
?Drop Internet Issues From ACTA, Add Public Interest?
Posted on July 17, 2009Nine organisations representing the technology industry, libraries, digital rights and privacy interests have sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk urging that issues related to the internet be dropped from negotiations for an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)...
Life-Saving Mosquito Nets Subject Of Tough Tiff Over Trade Secrets
Posted on July 17, 2009COPENHAGEN - While sales of insecticide-treated bed nets have skyrocketed in recent years and boosting their use is among the UN Millennium Development Goals, two producers of the nets have been caught in a rigorous legal case involving trade secrets...
US Measures To Strengthen Trade Enforcement
Posted on July 16, 2009United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk on Thursday announced new measures to strengthen the enforcement of the country?s trade rights seen as a key part of US economic recovery and growth strategy. ?Our new approach to enforcement is simple,? Kirk said in a statement, available here...
ECOSOC Calls For Intensified Efforts On Public Health And Use Of TRIPS Flexibilities
Posted on July 16, 2009The United Nations Economic and Social Council, a key coordinating body meeting this summer in Geneva, is considering ways to move nations faster toward global public health goals, with a warning from developing countries that intellectual property rights should not interfere with access to medical products and innovation.
Double Serving In Geneva: McDonald?s’ IP Tax Move
Posted on July 16, 2009McDonald’s is shifting its European headquarters to Geneva in an apparent attempt to avoid new tax rules in the United Kingdom that would result in double taxation of revenues earned from intellectual property rights, according to a spokeswoman for McDonald?s quoted in the Guardian newspaper this week...
UK Parliament Report: Health Access A ‘Treatment Timebomb’
Posted on July 15, 2009“Maintaining HIV/AIDS treatment to keep people alive will cripple developing economies, or place unbearable strains on richer countries trying to support them and action is needed now, to avert crisis later,” says a report released this week by a cross-cutting parliamentary group in the United Kingdom...
Conference May Boost WIPO Mandate On Food Security, Public Health
Posted on July 15, 2009A conference at the World Intellectual Property Organization exploring and clarifying the connection between its work and several major public policy issues ended Tuesday with a look at public health and food security.
WIPO Looks At Mandate On IP And Climate Change, Access For Reading Impaired
Posted on July 14, 2009A conference aimed at sketching out ideas for the World Intellectual Property Organization?s involvement in issues of global public policy kicked off Monday with explorations on the link intellectual property and environmental technology and a separate event devoted to access to reading material for the visually impaired.
July Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available
Posted on July 13, 2009The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Edition features top news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the international IP community, news briefs and more. The July edition is now available for subscribers.
Interview With David Lammy, UK Minister of Intellectual Property
Posted on July 13, 2009In a short videocast, Lammy offers his views on global public policy, patent backlogs, patent pools and the role of WIPO.
Special Report: Swedish Author?s Take On The Catcher In The Rye Copyright Court Case
Posted on July 10, 2009COPENHAGEN ? Windupbird Publishing owned by Swedish author Fredrik Colting, alias John David California, promises that its books will ?tickle your feet and yank your soul.? But American author J.D. Salinger is not amused and has indeed been wound up by Colting's latest book, which he says is infringing on the copyright of his best-seller, "Catcher in the Rye...
G8 Public Health Report Cites IP, Innovation
Posted on July 10, 2009The Group of 8 industrialised countries plus Russia have issued their report on global public health, and a preliminary report on accountability. The 165-page health report (mostly annexes) encourages implementation of the World Health Organization strategy on intellectual property rights and innovation...
How To Avert The Coming Drug Access Crisis
Posted on July 10, 2009Interview With Ellen ?t Hoen, Senior IP Advisor At UNITAID, author of "The Global Politics of Pharmaceutical Monopoly Power."
Intérêt croissant pour les IG : une réforme internationale est nécessaire selon les partisans
Posted on July 10, 2009TERUEL, ESPAGNE ? Les indications géographiques (IG), qui favorisent une croissance économique durable et offrent une garantie de qualité, servent à la fois les intérêts des producteurs et ceux des consommateurs. Telle est la conclusion d?une réunion à haut niveau qui a rassemblé des partisans des IG en juin...
Special Report: Swedish Author?s Take On The Catcher In The Rye Copyright Case
Posted on July 10, 2009COPENHAGEN ? Windupbird Publishing owned by Swedish author Fredrik Colting, alias John David California, promises that its books will ?tickle your feet and yank your soul.? But American author J.D. Salinger is not amused and has indeed been wound up by Colting's latest book, which he says is infringing on the copyright of his best-seller, "Catcher in the Rye...
G8: Amid Talks Of Climate, Economy, Food And Health Lies IP & Innovation
Posted on July 09, 2009Leaders of the seven biggest economies and Russia (G8) at their annual summit this week in L'Aquila, Italy have made very cautious commitments with regard to the top issue, climate change, but views on intellectual property rights enforcement began to become clear on the second day...
Too Pricy For A Patent? Glivec Rejected
Posted on July 09, 2009Novartis?s patent application for Glivec, a blood cancer drug, was recently ruled not patentable by the Intellectual Property Appellate Board of India (IPAB) for failing to meet the requirements under section 3(d) of the Indian Patent Act, which states that a pharmaceutical derivative must demonstrate enhanced ?efficacy? over the prior known molecule, according to Indian [...
WCO Kills ?SECURE? Group, But Creates Health Enforcement Mandate
Posted on July 09, 2009The World Customs Organization at its annual assembly in late June replaced a controversial group on counterfeiting and piracy with a softer dialogue mechanism that may defuse earlier concerns of potential overreaching on intellectual property infringement by customs officials...
Hadopi 2 Passes French Senate
Posted on July 09, 2009A French bill to protect literary and artistic intellectual property rights on the internet passed the French senate last night with 189 votes in favour over 142 votes against its adoption. A law creating a high-level authority for the protection of artistic works on the internet (with the French acronym HADOPI) passed in May (IPW, Enforcement, [...
EU Finds Anti-Competitive Abuse Of Pharmaceutical Patents, Launches Antitrust Action
Posted on July 08, 2009Pharmaceutical companies are manipulating the intellectual property rights system and are ?actively trying to delay the entry of generic medicines onto their markets,? a top EU official said of an EU inquiry into the pharmaceutical sector released Wednesday...
Next ACTA Meeting 16-17 July In Morocco
Posted on July 07, 2009The closely held date of the next negotiating meeting on the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) is 16-17 July in Morocco, according to an official source. The ACTA negotiation has roiled activists and others for being conducted mostly in secret with little non-industry public input...
Kenyan AIDS Patients Seek To Overturn Anti-Counterfeiting Law As Unconstitutional
Posted on July 07, 2009NAIROBI - Three HIV/AIDS patients in Kenya announced Tuesday they will petition the country's Constitutional Court to declare a new anti-counterfeiting act illegal because it could deny them access to generic medicines. The move, which has the support of public health groups across the country, seeks to have the 2008 Anti-Counterfeiting Act made unconstitutional on the grounds that it could rob them of their right to life.
Collaborative Innovation And ICTs Could Give Economy Back Its Colours
Posted on July 06, 2009Innovation and technology will be key to emergence from the global economic crisis, according to speakers at a recent United Nations conference on innovation-based competitiveness. However, innovation should be collaborative and involve resources inside and outside companies and institutions.
Special Report ? ICANN: New CEO, New Government Role, Accelerated International Domains
Posted on July 06, 2009With three important processes coming to a head at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this year, it is difficult not to overlook some changes in the private body, which oversees the internet domain name system. At ICANN's recent board meeting, the appointment of a shiny new CEO, former United States Homeland Security Department cybersecurity director Rod Beckstrom, drew attention away from top issues, which include the introduction of new top-level domains, ongoing institutional reform, and the looming September expiration of the ICANN-US government agreement.
New ?Hadopi 2? Legislation Heads To French Senate
Posted on July 06, 2009One month after the French government?s so-called HADOPI law aimed at preventing online illegal downloading was partly censored by the French Constitutional Council, the government has continued its push and is presenting a new law restoring the punishing arm of the original law (IPW, Access to Knowledge, 16 June 2009)...
Chan Calls For Moral Dimension In Critical Public Policies
Posted on July 06, 2009World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan on Monday urged governments and others to incorporate a ?moral dimension? into trade, finance, food security and public health as the world works to correct harm done by ?greed? and right itself economically...
Late-Night Breakdown On Traditional Knowledge At WIPO; Future Unclear
Posted on July 06, 2009The World Intellectual Property Organization committee on the protection of indigenous knowledge, expressions and genetic resources failed to reach consensus on future work Friday, putting the future of the committee in the hands of the WIPO General Assemblies in September.
WIPO Members Seek Deal To Negotiate On Traditional Knowledge Protection
Posted on July 03, 2009World Intellectual Property Organization members this week are intensively working toward agreement on a proposal to start negotiations for a tool to better protect traditional knowledge, genetic resources, and traditional cultural expressions, after nearly a decade of talking about the subject.
US Cablevision Decision Has Implications For Cloud Computing, Online Advertising
Posted on July 03, 2009A recent United States Supreme Court order letting stand a decision that a proposed remote digital video recorder does not violate copyright law has major implications for internet ?cloud computing? and advertisers, intellectual property lawyers say.
Kenya Pressured To Implement Anti-Counterfeit Law Despite Access Fears
Posted on July 02, 2009NAIROBI - An influential manufacturers' lobbying group in Kenya is pushing the government to start enforcing an anti-counterfeiting law within weeks, despite fears from public health advocates that the new rules will impede access to generic drugs and set an unwanted precedent in East Africa.
Report: Drug Companies Violating WHO Ethics On Advertising In East Africa
Posted on July 02, 2009NAIROBI - Drug companies routinely violate World Health Organization ethical guidelines when advertising and promoting their products in East Africa, according to a new study released Thursday.
Inside Views: Tribes To WIPO: Long-Term Protection For Traditional Knowledge Needed
Posted on July 02, 2009Indigenous people and governments like the United States' may be able to help each other, especially when it comes to protecting traditional knowledge while also using it combat global crises like climate change, says Terry Williams of the Tulalip Tribes...
Health R&D Experts Conclude Meeting With Few Details But Signal More Openness
Posted on July 01, 2009An expert body under the World Health Organization tasked with finding innovative solutions for financing research for needed medicines concluded its second official meeting Wednesday, working on a process to analyse possible mechanisms. The WHO afterward appeared to address concerns ? which included a civil society letter ? by insisting there would be more transparency in the negotiating process, but did not provide assurance that potential conflicts of interest would be properly addressed.
European Patent System, Court Top Priority Under Swedish EU Presidency
Posted on July 01, 2009COPENHAGEN - A top priority for Sweden as it takes over the EU presidency on 1 July is to boost negotiations on a Community patent system and a European Patent Court, the government says. Its work programme also emphasises the need for "effective protection of intellectual property rights" and lists a conference on enforcement...
First Public University Adopts Open Access Policy
Posted on July 01, 2009Journal articles by professors at the University of Kansas (US) will soon be freely available online, the school reported, as it becomes the first public university in the United States to embrace an “open access” policy. The university joins ranks with Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University, which have similar policies...
Global Legislative Reform Could Unlock Benefits Of GIs, Advocates Say
Posted on July 01, 2009TERUEL, SPAIN - Geographical indications (GIs) are in the interest of both producers and consumers as they provide a tool for sustainable economic growth and offer a guarantee of quality, concluded a high-level meeting of GI proponents last week. However, with shortcomings in the international framework and a lack of consensus on GIs, countries have been trying to find legal ways to address the issue.
King Of Pop’s Leanings Patented
Posted on June 30, 2009In addition to writing catchy pop-tunes and executing gravity-defying dance moves, the late Michael Jackson apparently had an inventive streak. It has come to light that the singer holds a patent on shoes that help create “an impressive visual effect” in one of his famous dance moves...
Former US Official To Launch Networking “Platform” In Geneva
Posted on June 30, 2009Alicia Greenidge, until recently director general of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA), plans to launch a new platform in Geneva to “build relationships between developing countries, governments, organisations and industries,” according to a press release from IFPMA[pdf]...
WIPO Work Likely To Continue On Traditional Knowledge, But How?
Posted on June 30, 2009An intergovernmental committee considering ways to protect kinds of knowledge that predate - and may not fit into - the current intellectual property system picked up this week after a chaotic round of negotiations failed to make any progress at the last meeting...
WHO R&D Financing Group To Parse New Ideas, Look For Ways Forward
Posted on June 29, 2009Perhaps the single most critical issue to resolve in addressing neglected diseases is how to ensure there is money to pay for research and clinical trials, even when the consumer demand is small and its constituents poor. A group of experts under the auspices of the World Health Organization this week is attempting to address the problem.
South African Authors Seek First Public Lending Right In A Developing Country
Posted on June 29, 2009South Africa could become the first developing country to permit authors to be paid when libraries lend their books if an authors? group gets it way, but the proposal is likely to spur strong opposition from access-to-knowledge advocates and libraries.
Prevent Patents Inhibiting Knowledge Diffusion For Green Technology, EU Told
Posted on June 26, 2009Stringent intellectual property rules could hamper the spread of technology needed to fight climate change, an advisor to European Union policy-makers has warned.
WHO Or Who Should Guarantee The Right To Health?
Posted on June 24, 2009With implementation of the World Health Organization strategy on intellectual property and innovation beginning in earnest, international experts this week debated how human rights could be infused into global health strategies - including the possibility of new international agreements on research and development - and whether WHO is up to the task.
Leadership Changes At Free Software Foundation Europe
Posted on June 24, 2009Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), a high-impact nonprofit organisation focussed on access to software in the broader scope of participation in the digital society, this week named named new leadership for the first time in nearly a decade since its inception.
La crise financière présente des opportunités et des risques pour l?innovation verte
Posted on June 24, 2009LAUSANNE ? « Rien ne vaut une bonne crise », si l?on en croit la sagesse populaire. Voilà une formule que les décideurs pourraient reprendre pour inciter le monde à adopter une économie plus verte et davantage fondée sur la connaissance. Telle est la conclusion à laquelle a abouti un groupe de discussion à l?École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL) le 18 juin...
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EU, US Consumer Groups Issue Resolution On Enforcement; Demand Role In ACTA
Posted on June 23, 2009A international coalition of consumer groups has issued a resolution calling into question global enforcement policy and offering core principles for policymakers to consider in setting new enforcement standards. The Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue on 18 June issued the resolution on the enforcement of copyright, trademarks, patents and other intellectual property rights...
La OMA estudia nuevo ?mecanismo de diálogo? relativo a la falsificación y énfasis explícito en materia de salud pública
Posted on June 23, 2009Esta semana la Organización Mundial de Aduanas (OMA) tratará de llegar a un acuerdo sobre un grupo de sustitución más flexible para la lucha contra la falsificación y la piratería que podría calmar las preocupaciones sobre la extralimitación de los funcionarios de aduanas...
L?OMD étudie un nouveau « mécanisme de dialogue » sur la contrefaçon et se concentre ouvertement sur l?aspect santé publique
Posted on June 23, 2009Cette semaine, l?Organisation mondiale des douanes (OMD) va essayer de parvenir à un accord sur la constitution d?un nouveau groupe de lutte contre la contrefaçon et le piratage plus flexible. Un consensus pourrait mettre fin aux inquiétudes qui entourent le champ trop étendu des responsabilités attribuées aux préposés des douanes.
Now Video Wants To Be Free And Open Too: IP Policy Considerations
Posted on June 23, 2009Video is becoming an increasingly important communication tool on the web, but questions must be asked about its future, said speakers a recent conference. Will it be a medium of self-expression, available for all, or a translation of television to the internet, where content is provided by some and consumed by the rest? A gathering of technologists, academics, filmmakers and others in New York last week issued a call for a freer video culture.
“Pseudo Bagels” Better With A Side Of IP?
Posted on June 23, 2009The spectre of gastronomic imperfection has long haunted connoisseurs of the fine foods of regions in countries like France and Italy. But Canada has been less concerned about the protecting its homegrown flavours. This means the Canadians are powerless to prevent others from usurping the name of their Montreal bagels, reported Jeff Roberts of the McGill [...
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First Result Of Benefit-Sharing Mechanism For FAO Treaty; Push For Farmers? Rights
Posted on June 22, 2009Members of a global treaty on plant genetic resources this month announced 11 new projects on biodiversity conservation in research institutions, and financed by a benefit-sharing fund whose sustainability is still in doubt. The group separately acted to better protect farmers? rights at the national level.
WCO Considers New ?Dialogue Mechanism? On Counterfeiting, Explicit Focus On Public Health
Posted on June 20, 2009The World Customs Organization this week will try to reach agreement on a softened replacement group against counterfeiting and piracy that may defuse concerns of overreaching by customs officials. It also will consider a proposal to add an explicit focus on public health and safety to its enforcement activities.
Thailand Seeks To Toughen IP Laws to Punish Buyers Of Pirated Or Fake Goods
Posted on June 19, 2009BANGKOK - Thailand plans to toughen its intellectual property protection law to punish, for the first time, buyers of products that breach copyright and trademark laws, aiming primarily at pirated music and movies and fake brand-name goods, a senior Thai official said Thursday.
Santa Cruz To Head Chilean IP Office; Kappos Named USPTO Director
Posted on June 19, 2009A well-liked and influential IP policymaker in Geneva will head Chile?s national IP office, a US lawyer responsible for perhaps the world?s biggest industry patent portfolio will head the US IP office, and a fixture in the Geneva international trade negotiating and lobbying community is heading home to Canada.
WIPO Works Out Plans For Staff Separations, Financial Disclosure
Posted on June 19, 2009After months of private consultations, it was no surprise that the World Intellectual Property Organization Coordination Committee ? the 83-member executive body ? easily approved the director general?s new cabinet this week, albeit with a few notes for the future...
Germany Builds Infrastructure To Block The Internet
Posted on June 19, 2009The German Parliament on Thursday evening passed legislation that obliges internet service providers (ISPs) to filter websites allegedly containing child abuse material, by a vote of 389 to 146. The vote followed fierce debate about the secret filtering list to be put together by the German Federal Police and transmitted to ISPs once a day with only occasional checks by a five-member monitoring body...
Internet Rallies Behind Iranian Protesters
Posted on June 19, 2009As a media crackdown in Iran suppressed major news outlets, and even, reportedly, major social networking sites such as Facebook, social media site Twitter has become critical in providing up-to-the-second news as to what is happening on the ground in Iran...
Nations Work To Make IP Systems Combat Climate Change
Posted on June 18, 2009With less than a year to complete a new global plan to combat climate change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is under pressure to be able to move to a decision at the end of the year. But it is in the longer-term action plans that intellectual property issues are featuring most prominently, as parties to the UNFCCC aim to satisfy the need for growth in poor countries, and to mitigate effects of growth on the environment - a move that will require effective technology transfer.
Malgré les obstacles, les pressions de la France au niveau national visant à sanctionner le piratage sur Internet font des émules
Posted on June 18, 2009WASHINGTON ? Le 9 juin, au cours d?une conférence, la ministre française de la Culture et de la Communication, Christine Albanel, a défini la loi Création et Internet comme étant « à la fois ambitieuse et réaliste ». Selon elle, ceux qui pensent qu?Internet est une zone de non-droit « se trompent d?époque »...
Financial Crisis Provides Opportunity, Pitfalls For Green Innovation
Posted on June 18, 2009LAUSANNE - One should not waste a good crisis, goes the common wisdom - a piece of advice policymakers might use to spur the world closer to a green, knowledge-based economy, said a panel at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Wednesday. The current financial crisis and an awakening recognition of the ecological crisis have presented a unique opportunity for innovation - and particularly green innovation - to take a lead role in driving future economies.
EFF: Keeping Patents Off Public Domain, Opening ACTA
Posted on June 18, 2009The United States Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it will revoke an illegitimate patent on internet subdomains that was seen as potentially threatening to the public domain. The US patent, held by a company called Hoshiko, claimed to cover the method of automatically assigning internet subdomains, like “action...
Media Companies Offer UK Unlimited Music … Or Else!
Posted on June 17, 2009Media giants Virgin Media and Universal Music have teamed up to create the world’s first unlimited digital download service that comes with the blessing of content owners - though only for residents of the United Kingdom. Britons using Virgin Media’s broadband to connect to the internet will soon be able to download or stream any artist [...
HADOPI Copyright Law To Get New Set Of Teeth With Additional Law
Posted on June 16, 2009The Sarkozy government will implement a law aimed at promoting legal online downloading in the coming months despite being prevented from cutting off the internet access of alleged three-time offenders, according to official sources. Meanwhile, the government has already begun preparing a new law that would restore penalties decided by a judge rather than by the newly created HADOPI commission.
UN Special Rapporteur: IP In Health Helping Those With Most Means, Less Need
Posted on June 16, 2009Nearly two billion people lack access to the medical care they need, and in the developing world those who do manage to have access are overwhelmingly paying out-of-pocket, often triggering a fall into poverty. The monopoly-making power of patents to drive the cost of medicines beyond affordability is a significant contributor to this disturbing trend, says a report of the United Nations rapporteur on the right to health presented at last week?s Human Rights Council.
OECD Report: ?Creative Destruction,? Innovation Focus Needed In Economic Crisis
Posted on June 16, 2009As members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) prepare to meet for their annual ministerial meeting in Paris next week, the organisation has issued a report calling for a strategic, innovation-driven response to the economic crisis.
Talks On Traditional Knowledge And Access, Benefit-Sharing
Posted on June 16, 2009An expert body on traditional knowledge as it relates to an access and benefit-sharing regime on genetic resources began discussion Tuesday in India. They will examine the way in which proposed aspects of the regime relate to indigenous communities and the way in which they manage and protect their knowledge...
WIPO Appoints New Top Officials, Readies Policies On Conflicts Of Interest, Staff Cuts
Posted on June 15, 2009The member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization?s executive body on Monday approved a set of seven most senior officials at the organisation to join the director general late this year. Monday's Coordination Committee meeting also will address new policies on financial disclosure and conflicts of interest among top WIPO officials, and voluntary staff departures in the face of smaller budgets.
Turning Points Ahead For WTO Geographical Indications, Biodiversity?
Posted on June 12, 2009The coming months could spell changes in the long-running World Trade Organization talks on creating a register for wines and spirits geographical indications and amending WTO rules to better protect biodiversity rights. Developed countries that have been blocking progress on the issues for years may be pushed at a political level, according to some sources.
EU Says GI Products Would Benefit Asian Poor In Renewing IP Assistance
Posted on June 12, 2009BANGKOK - The European Union told Asian countries Thursday that protecting geographical indications of their products would benefit their poor, rural people as the EU is offering to renew its intellectual property cooperation with regional countries with GI enforcement as a greater element.
Conseil de l?Europe : l?accès à l?internet est un droit fondamental
Posted on June 12, 2009L?argument souvent utilisé par les législateurs contre la communication Internet qui veut que ce qui est valable dans l?univers physique l?est aussi en ligne a été utilisé par le Conseil de l?Europe dans une nouvelle résolution concernant les droits fondamentaux en ligne.
USTR Revives Focus On ACTA; Talks Set For July
Posted on June 12, 2009The Office of the United States Trade Representative on Friday said it had reviewed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) under negotiation and has decided to move ahead on the treaty. Negotiating countries will meet in Morocco in July, and the targeted completion is still 2010.
Trademark Worry Over Facebook Usernames
Posted on June 12, 2009Facebook users starting Saturday will get the chance to add a nickname of their choice to the web address of their profiles. These new usernames, which will make Facebook addresses easier to find and easier to remember, are being assigned on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 12:01 am Eastern Daylight Time on 13 June...
GAVI, Gates Deploy Industry-Favoured Incentive For Vaccines To Poor Countries
Posted on June 12, 2009Major public health funders have alighted upon an industry-favoured approach of guaranteeing certain prices to industry to make vaccines available to least-developed country markets.
Panel: EU Accord Threatens India; World Customs Body Scales Back IP Enforcement
Posted on June 11, 2009BRUSSELS - India?s status as a top world supplier of generic medicines could be threatened by a free trade agreement its government is negotiating with the European Union, a new study has concluded. Separately, the World Customs Organization has abandoned its intellectual property rights enforcement group, replacing it with a non-policymaking information committee.
French Revolution Meets Information Revolution In Setback For HADOPI Law
Posted on June 11, 2009The French Constitutional Council on Wednesday decided that two articles of a newly passed law creating a graduated punishment mechanism for alleged copyright infringement on the internet did not comply with the French Constitution. The government has options to proceed with changes reflecting the setback to the so-called HADOPI law.
Copyright Holders Acknowledge Losing Battle For Public Consciousness At World Copyright Summit
Posted on June 11, 2009WASHINGTON, DC - Copyright holders on Wednesday acknowledged they have done a poor job of countering the "anti-copyright" lobby and demonstrating the creative community's value to the world.
Heated Debates Over US-Free Internet
Posted on June 10, 2009Warnings about a possible split of the single root zone underlying the global internet have been made by internet governance experts outside the United States following a hearing of the US congressional Subcommittee on Communication Technologies and the Internet on the future of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the internet’s technical [...
June Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available
Posted on June 09, 2009The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Edition features top news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the international IP community, news briefs and more. The June edition is now available for subscribers.
Generic Drug Delay Called ?Systemic? Problem At TRIPS Council
Posted on June 09, 2009Seizures of legal generic drugs was the focus of heated discussion Monday at the World Trade Organization Council on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), raising questions about the implementation of enforcement measures in the European Union.
French Minister Says HADOPI Law A 21st Century Reality
Posted on June 09, 2009WASHINGTON, DC - France's "three strikes" law is both "ambitious" and "realistic," French culture and communication minister Christine Albanel told a conference Tuesday, and anyone who thinks the internet can be a lawless arena where anything goes is "in the wrong century...
Pirate Party To Enter European Parliament
Posted on June 08, 2009The Swedish Pirate Party harvested 7.1 percent of the Swedish vote in preliminary results from the European Parliament elections on Sunday, 7 June, according to official sources. The Party aims to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system and ensure citizens? right to privacy...
UN-Led Commission Sees Needs In Internet Governance, Science, Technology
Posted on June 08, 2009A commission under the United Nations charged with monitoring progress in improving science and technology in places where access is difficult and capacity to use that access scarce, concluded its recent annual meeting with draft resolutions on internet and society and on development and science...
Council Of Europe: Access To Internet Is A Fundamental Right
Posted on June 08, 2009What applies offline is also valid online - an argument often used against internet communication by legislators - has been turned around to underline fundamental rights on the internet in a new resolution of the Council of Europe.
New Top Level Internet Domains - To Be Or Not To Be?
Posted on June 06, 2009Now even trademark owners and large businesses do not really agree on the planned extension of the internet domain name system to include hundreds of new top-level domains (TLDs) like .com.
Swedish Pirate Party Set To Win Seats In EU Elections
Posted on June 05, 2009COPENHAGEN - As a candidate for the European Parliament elections on Sunday, the Swedish Pirate Party has ?good chances? of winning one, two or possibly even three mandates, it says, referring to Swedish opinion polls.
Drug Seizures In Frankfurt Spark Fears OF EU-Wide Pattern
Posted on June 05, 2009Health advocates have raised alarm over reports that several million pills of generic medicine were held up in Frankfurt airport in May despite being destined for a different port. And new information has come to light indicating Dutch seizures were more numerous than originally thought...
Avancées quant à la proposition de traité de l?OMPI sur les limitations et les exceptions au droit d?auteur
Posted on June 04, 2009En mai dernier, le comité du droit d?auteur de l?Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI) s?est accordé sur la manière d?aborder la proposition de traité sur les exceptions au droit d?auteur en faveur des déficients visuels et sur d?autres dispositions permettant un meilleur accès aux ouvrages de lecture.
Avanza propuesta de tratado de la OMPI sobre limitaciones y excepciones a los derechos de autor
Posted on June 04, 2009En mayo, el Comité de derechos de autor de la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual llegó a un acuerdo sobre un plan para examinar una propuesta de tratado sobre excepciones a los derechos de autor que permitan a los discapacitados visuales y a otras personas tener un mejor acceso a material de lectura.
Proposed Rules On Public Research In South Africa Stir Debate
Posted on June 04, 2009Draft rules on intellectual property rights in publicly financed research are stirring significant debate in South Africa between those who say the rules may stifle innovation, breach WHO commitments and be unconstitutional, and others who say concerns are overblown and the measures are needed to boost the country's economy.
US Bill Would Prohibit Generics Delay
Posted on June 04, 2009The practice of brand name companies paying generic manufacturers to delay the entry of lower-priced generics into the market could become illegal, if a bill before the United States House of Representatives passes. The bill (available here [pdf]) is “to prohibit brand name drug companies from compensating generic drug companies to delay the entry of [...
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US Senate Judiciary Prioritises Performance Rights Bill
Posted on June 04, 2009Draft legislation to change United States copyright law related to payment for music on radio is likely to see action this summer in the Senate Judiciary Committee, the committee chairman said Thursday.
China Blocking Key Foreign Media Sites
Posted on June 03, 2009China is blocking its citizens’ access to leading international social media and news websites in the lead-up to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square anti-democracy massacre in Beijing. Media and information sharing sites such as Twitter, YouTube, Blogger, and Flickr as well as mainstream media such as the Financial Times, New York Times and [...
CVs Of WIPO Leadership Nominees Now Available
Posted on June 03, 2009Names and biographies of the seven people who will likely lead the World Intellectual Property Organization secretariat under Director General Francis Gurry have been officially released on the WIPO website here [pdf]. Intellectual Property Watch reported on the new deputy and assistant directors general last week (IPW, WIPO, 28 May 2009), but the WIPO document provides [...
US Supreme Court To Rule On Business Method Patents
Posted on June 03, 2009The United States Supreme Court, the nation’s highest court, has decided to review a case involving patenting of business methods, which could have a significant impact on the future of patenting. On 30 October 2008, the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals - often called the country?s ?patent court? - issued its decision in In [...
WIPO Names First-Ever Chief Economist
Posted on June 02, 2009A well-known European economist has been named the first-ever Chief Economist at the World Intellectual Property Organization, according to sources.
WIPO Limitations & Exceptions Treaty Advances; Audiovisual Treaty Gets New Life
Posted on May 30, 2009After intensive negotiations, the World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee reached agreement Friday night on a plan to address a proposed treaty on copyright exceptions for visually impaired persons and others. There also appeared to be a renewed focus on a decade-old treaty proposal on audiovisual performances, according to participants.
Affaire Golan : les États-Unis pourraient se retrouver en infraction avec les traités internationaux sur le droit d?auteur
Posted on May 29, 2009Récemment, une cour fédérale des États-Unis a annoncé une mauvaise nouvelle au gouvernement américain et à de nombreux titulaires de droits d?auteur étrangers, comme ceux des ?uvres de Sergueï Rachmaninov, de Dmitry Chostakovitch, de Sergueï Prokofiev et d?Igor Stravinski...
Caso Golan: EE UU podría incumplir con los tratados internacionales sobre derecho de autor
Posted on May 29, 2009Recientemente, un Tribunal Federal de los Estados Unidos (EE UU) dio malas noticias al gobierno de este país así como a varios titulares de derechos de autor extranjeros ?incluidos los de Sergéi Rajmáninov, Dmitry Shostakóvich, Sergéi Prokófiev e Igor Stravinsky...
Proposed WIPO Treaty On Visually Impaired Access Gets Deeper Look
Posted on May 29, 2009A treaty on copyright exceptions for visually impaired persons proposed this week at the World Intellectual Property Organization met with no immediate objections, according to participants, but how to treat the proposal and other limitations and exceptions in the future has led to a sharpening divergence among governments.
Special Report: The Future Of File Sharing
Posted on May 28, 2009Digital content owners continue to emphasise enforcement and protection of intellectual property. However, the impact that litigation and legislation have had with the purpose of limiting illegal file sharing remains questionable, thus setting the stage for new economic models and approaches that could serve as a remedy.
WIPO To Create DDG For Global Issues; Elevate Trademarks
Posted on May 28, 2009The World Intellectual Property Organization is expected this month to create a new deputy director general for global challenges, and will raise trademarks to the DDG level while moving copyright responsibility back to the assistant director general level, according to sources at WIPO...
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Advice To Obama On Global Health: Open Access
Posted on May 28, 2009With US health resources, a “wide gap remains between what can be done with existing knowledge and what is actually being done” says a new report by the National Academies Institute of Medicine, which is meant to advise the Obama administration’s health policy...
Broadcasting Industry Makes Case For WIPO Treaty Revival
Posted on May 27, 2009To kick off the World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee meeting this week, representatives primarily from the broadcasting industry gave their views on key developments in the field, and what that means for intellectual property protection...
WTO Ministerial Set For November
Posted on May 27, 2009Thw World Trade Organization on Wednesday announced that the next ministerial-level negotiating meeting will be held on 30 November to 2 December at the WTO headquarters in Geneva. The ministerial will have a theme of “The WTO, the Multilateral Trading System and the Current Global Economic Environment...
Proponents See WTO Session On GI Register Ready For Substantive Talks
Posted on May 26, 2009An informal special session at the World Trade Organization on a register for geographical indications - product names associated with a particular place and characteristics - was nudged toward ?substantive? talks last week, according to some participants.
Same WTO Deputy DGs Named To New Terms
Posted on May 26, 2009World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy on Tuesday named his four existing deputies to new terms. Alejandro Jara of Chile, Valentine Rugwabiza of Rwanda, Harsha Singh of India and Rufus Yerxa of the United States will be retained in their positions...
Copyright Exceptions Needed To Ensure Balance In Africa, Panellists Say
Posted on May 25, 2009International copyright laws do not take into account the reality of the conditions of accessing knowledge in Africa and clearer limitations and exceptions are needed to achieve a balanced copyright regime at the national level, panellists said at a seminar on development research on 20 May.
Freedom Of Expression Vs. DRM: The First Empirical Assessment
Posted on May 25, 2009Results of recent research on the impact of digital rights management (DRM) on the ability of users to take advantage of certain exceptions to copyright have introduced new systemic empirical data into the debate.
Group Of Countries To Back Proposal For WIPO Treaty On Blind Readers? Rights
Posted on May 24, 2009A group of Latin American and Caribbean countries have declared their intention to support discussion of a proposal to negotiate a World Intellectual Property Organization treaty ensuring an exception to copyright for visually impaired readers who lack access to protected reading materials...
Off The Agenda, Counterfeits Still Draw Attention At Health Assembly
Posted on May 23, 2009Counterfeit medicines were left off this year?s truncated World Health Assembly agenda but still managed to have an impact. The contentious, intellectual property-related issue arose during a discussion on the World Health Organization?s future plans, as several nations objected to a budget line referencing a programme to combat counterfeit drugs.
Broad Plan On IP, Innovation In Developing Countries Approved At WHO
Posted on May 22, 2009Applause broke out at the annual World Health Assembly Friday as agreement was reached at the end of a five-year process to devise a plan for boosting research and development on and access to drugs needed by developing countries. Now with the full assembly's approval, the focus will turn to implementation and as-yet unclear ways to pay for it.
World Health Assembly Finds Way Forward On Pandemic Flu
Posted on May 22, 2009Responsibility to take forward a still in-progress framework to cope with global influenza pandemics is now in the hands of the World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan, member states agreed in a meeting Thursday. This was approved by the full World Health Assembly on Friday.
WHO Members Near Deal On IP, Innovation And Public Health, With Key Question
Posted on May 21, 2009Some five years after setting a mandate to address barriers faced by poor countries in accessing needed medicines, World Health Organization members are near agreement on a strategy and plan of action. But a key question remains on WHO involvement in a possible treaty on biomedical research and development for diseases disproportionately affecting developing nations, and the WHO secretariat is facing accusations that the process has not been amply inclusive.
UN Internet Governance Panel Urges Infrastructure, Education On Access To Knowledge
Posted on May 19, 2009Access to knowledge is a future challenge and a key factor for social and economic development but a balance needs to be found between the interests of rights holders and those of the public, said speakers at a high panel on access to knowledge during the World Summit on the Information Society Forum on Monday.
Pandemic Flu A Top Focus Of Health Assembly, But IP Issues Unresolved
Posted on May 19, 2009As the world looks to the World Health Assembly for a plan of action in case of pandemic, delegates are negotiating remaining parts of a framework for pandemic influenza preparedness, and an associated model agreement for the movement of virus and vaccine-related materials...
WHO Members Fail To Finish Pandemic Flu Preparations
Posted on May 18, 2009A series of meetings intended to set out a global framework for dealing with a potential pandemic completed its last session Saturday night with progress made but several essential issues still uncompleted.
Plainte contre un enseignant argentin : l?accès à l?éducation en question
Posted on May 18, 2009Un professeur argentin de philosophie qui avait mis en ligne sur Internet des traductions en espagnol des travaux du philosophes français Jacques Derrida est actuellement poursuivi par la justice pour violation présumée des droits d?auteur, selon l?organisation Copy South Research Group...
US Patent Reform Prospects Unclear; First-To-File Questioned
Posted on May 18, 2009Patent reform may be chugging along in the United States Congress, but so far, with the Senate soon to be consumed with what could be a contentious Supreme Court nomination fight, and with President Obama still lacking a new director of the US Patent and Trademark Office, some are questioning whether reform will actually happen this year...
Un caso sobre derechos de autor en Argentina pone en primer plano el acceso a la educación
Posted on May 18, 2009Se ha entablado una demanda contra un profesor argentino de filosofía por una presunta violación de derechos de autor ante la publicación de versiones traducidas de las obras del filósofo francés Jacques Derrida en una página web, según informó el Grupo de Investigación CopySouth...
IP Enforcement As US Foreign Policy
Posted on May 18, 2009The United States Chamber of Commerce, the largest US business group, on Monday issued a release applauding a new bill introduced into the US House of Representatives by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (Democrat, California) that would ?enhance State Department resources and training for intellectual property enforcement efforts in countries not meeting their [...
World Health Assembly Takes On R&D, Pandemics, Not Counterfeits
Posted on May 17, 2009The annual World Health Assembly kicks off Monday with key issues of intellectual property and public health on the agenda, but the plan to end the assembly early this year in the face of the pandemic influenza crisis has trimmed talks on counterfeit medicines from the meeting, according to official sources.
Content Industry Still Seeks Digital Model As Enforcement Focus Persists
Posted on May 15, 2009In the continued absence of a new model that adequately includes them, major global media groups remain concerned over revenues lost to unauthorised file-sharing decades after the arrival of the internet, and their focus is still on enforcement and extension of their rights.
WHO Meeting On Pandemic Flu Reconvenes Under Pressure
Posted on May 15, 2009As cases of swine flu in humans pile up and fears that a more serious outbreak could occur in the future, member states, drug manufacturers and public health advocates gather Friday and Saturday to see if they can come up with a way to facilitate sharing of both viruses and vaccine related materials...
Experts Aim To Balance Intellectual Property Rights And Human Rights
Posted on May 15, 2009The United Nations human rights framework is being brought to bear on intellectual property law, in the hopes that the weight of expert voices in human rights can lead IP regimes toward a better balance between the needs of industry and the needs of public policy.
WTO?s Lamy Continues Engagement On Intellectual Property Issues
Posted on May 14, 2009World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy continues to be engaged on intellectual property issues as WTO members begin to revive broader trade negotiations. This week Lamy hosted the heads of the World Intellectual Property Organization and World Health Organization together, and then chaired a consultation with ambassadors on proposals to amend WTO rules on intellectual property and trade.
UK Patent Office To Fast-Track Green Inventions
Posted on May 14, 2009The United Kingdom will now fast-track patent applications for inventions that could have a significant impact on combatting climate change. The ?green” patent initiative was launched on 12 May by David Lammy, UK Minister for Intellectual Property...
French Parliament Seals Restrictive Internet Anti-Piracy Law; Reaction Expected
Posted on May 13, 2009The French Senate?s vote on Wednesday sealed the adoption by the Parliament of the controversial French HADOPI law creating a graduated punishment mechanism for alleged copyright infringement on the internet.
Seven Names Said To Be Chosen For Top WIPO Posts
Posted on May 13, 2009Word is out among Geneva diplomats that seven officials have been informally proposed to be the next cabinet of World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis Gurry.
WIPO Patent Cooperation Committee To Proceed With Study With Constraints
Posted on May 12, 2009World Intellectual Property Organization members on Friday overcame anxiety about overreaching of the UN body and agreed to study the Patent Cooperation Treaty, including proposals aimed at improving the efficiency and implementation of the treaty, taking into account some members? concerns.
HADOPI Bill Adopted Tuesday By French Deputies
Posted on May 12, 2009The much-disputed French HADOPI legislation on the diffusion and protection of works on the internet was adopted Tuesday by the French National Assembly by a majority of 296 in favour and 233 against. With Tuesday’s passage, alleged copyright infringers now face, among other things, suspension of their internet access while still having to pay for [...
May Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available
Posted on May 12, 2009The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Edition features top news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the international IP community, news briefs and more. The May edition is now available for subscribers.
Argentina Copyright Case Brings Access To Education Into The Spotlight
Posted on May 12, 2009An Argentinean philosophy professor is being sued for alleged copyright infringement for posting translated versions of French philosopher Jacques Derrida?s works on a website, according to the Copy South Research Group. The case is bringing international attention to the limitations on access to education brought about by copyright.
Miembros de la OMPI impulsan la aplicación del Programa para el Desarrollo
Posted on May 12, 2009Los miembros de la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual entablaron a finales de abril unas difíciles negociaciones para aprobar un nuevo plan para la aplicación de recomendaciones que permitan profundizar el enfoque de la OMPI en el desarrollo, según comentaron los participantes.
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Les membres de l?OMPI progressent sur la mise en application du Plan d?action pour le développement
Posted on May 12, 2009En avril dernier, les membres de l?Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI) ont entrepris des négociations complexes dans le but d?approuver un nouveau plan de mise en application des recommandations visant à accroître les efforts de l?OMPI en faveur du développement, comme l?ont déclaré des participants.
The World Is Going Flat(-Rate)
Posted on May 11, 2009A new study shows a copyright exception for legalising file-sharing is feasible, as a cease-fire in the ?war on copying? emerges. A new social contract between creatives and society is needed, says media sociologist Volker Grassmuck.
Panel: Public Domain Fosters Innovation, More Limitations & Exceptions Needed
Posted on May 08, 2009The public domain is key to the promotion of innovation and should be fostered, but international intellectual property policies may hinder that process, said speakers at a side event to the last week?s meeting of the WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property...
US Weighs New Exemptions To Copyright Law
Posted on May 08, 2009The United States Copyright Office held two days of hearings this week to consider new fair use exemptions to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which prohibits breaking encryption on copyrighted digital material. Every three years, the Copyright Office considers possible exemptions to the DMCA, and held those hearings this week...
Golan Case May Put US In Violation Of International Copyright Treaties
Posted on May 08, 2009A United States federal court recently gave some bad news to the US government and many foreign copyright owners - including the estates of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitry Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, and Igor Stravinsky. The court struck down a US statute which had restored copyright protection to the works of these foreign authors...
EPO Looks To Future Technologies, 2010 Leadership Change
Posted on May 08, 2009PRAGUE - The current revolution in science and information was the topic of this year?s European Patent Forum, which brought together examiners, lawyers, policymakers and other patent professionals to discuss how the pace of the patent system can mesh with today?s whirlwind of technological change...
Technology Essential for Green Jobs & Planet
Posted on May 07, 2009The recent commem-oration of Earth Day and World IP Day raised the importance of IP rights to innovation and jobs, says David Hirschmann of the US Chamber of Commerce. How about calling it ?Green Innovation Week??
Brazil Tightens Rules On Drug Companies? Influence On Physicians
Posted on May 07, 2009RIO DE JANEIRO - The interaction between pharmaceutical companies and physicians has been discussed intensely in the last three years in Brazil, and recently has come under heightened scrutiny.
EU Parliament Signals Against ‘Three-Strikes’ Filtering
Posted on May 06, 2009The EU Parliament on Wednesday underlined its position that any limitations of the fundamental right of access to information is subject to a prior check by a judge. By voting for amendment No. 138/46 in the report of French Socialist Catherine Trautmann, the Parliament rejected a last-minute compromise Trautman had worked out with the Council...
US First-to-File Price Tag: $10M
Posted on May 05, 2009If the United States enacts reform of its patent law, S 515, this year as proposed, it would cut discretionary spending by US$173 million over the period 2010-2014, according to a 30 April US Congressional Budget Office cost estimate. This in part arises from an expectation of increased volume of patent applications, on which fees [...
WIPO Buzzing With Possible Names For Top Cabinet Posts
Posted on May 05, 2009Behind the day-to-day policy and technical work at the World Intellectual Property Organization, member governments' lobbying of new Director General Francis Gurry to obtain top positions for national officials at WIPO has been intensive in recent weeks and is near conclusion, according to sources...
WIPO Members Move Ahead On Development Agenda Implementation
Posted on May 04, 2009Members of the World Intellectual Property Organization in difficult negotiations last week approved a new plan for implementation of recommendations for deepening WIPO?s development focus, according to participants.
WIPO Pushes Members On Patent Treaty Compliance; US Wants PCT II
Posted on May 04, 2009The secretariat of the World Intellectual Property Organization is working this week to gain support for a proposal to get countries to better implement the UN organisation?s core revenue-generating instrument, the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). But some developing countries are wary of the proposed changes, even as the United States is calling for a new PCT.
Special 301 Process Acclaimed By Industry, Assailed By Public Interest Groups
Posted on May 02, 2009While heralded by patent- and copyright-based industries as a welcome step, the annual report on alleged inadequate protection of US intellectual property rights released by the Office of the US Trade Representative released this week is being blasted by some civil society groups.
Greenidge To Step Down As Director Of IFPMA
Posted on May 01, 2009Alicia Greenidge, director general of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA), has stepped down from the post.
Panel Reminds WIPO Of UN Mandate; Calls For Independent Evaluation
Posted on April 30, 2009The World Intellectual Property Organization should infuse its United Nations mandate and other aspects of the WIPO Development Agenda into all its norm-setting activities, panellists said this week.
Pascal Lamy Reappointed WTO Director General
Posted on April 30, 2009World Trade Organization (WTO) members Thursday agreed to a second four-year term for current Director General Pascal Lamy. Prior to joining the WTO, Lamy was Commissioner for Trade at the European Commission, and also previously served as CEO of the bank Credit Lyonnais prior to its privatisation and worked in the French civil service...
L?UE débat du droit d?auteur, de l?accès aux ?uvres et des artistes dans le contexte de l?ère numérique
Posted on April 29, 2009BRUXELLES - « Le droit d?auteur devrait être aboli car il nuit à la diversité culturelle », a-t-on entendu lors d?une conférence à Bruxelles.
The United States National Telecommunications
Posted on April 28, 2009The United States National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has published a notice of inquiry regarding the expiration of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) between the agency and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees technical aspects of the internet domain name system...
2009 World Telecom Policy Forum: All About The ITU Mandate
Posted on April 28, 2009LISBON - The role of information and communications technology (ICTs) in boosting global economic recovery plus the greening and convergence of ICTs were made top issues of the 4th World Telecom Policy Forum (WTPF) in Lisbon held on 22-24 April.
Accord sur les ADPIC : point de départ et non finalité de l?Accord de lutte contre la contrefaçon
Posted on April 27, 2009BRUXELLES - L?Accord de lutte contre la contrefaçon (ACTA) continue de prendre forme, mais des divergences se font de plus en plus jour entre les pays membres sur les questions liées à l?Internet et à la responsabilité des intermédiaires qui semblent donner des maux de tête aux négociateurs...
El ACTA: según la Comisión Europea, el Acuerdo sobre los ADPIC es la base, no el límite
Posted on April 27, 2009BRUSELAS ? El Acuerdo Comercial de Lucha contra la Falsificación (ACTA, por su sigla en inglés) está tomando forma, sin embargo, se están haciendo cada vez más patentes las discrepancias y, al parecer, los temas relacionados con Internet y con la responsabilidad de los intermediarios están dando dolores de cabeza a los negociadores...
Mixed Review Of Swedish Pirate Bay Jail Sentences
Posted on April 26, 2009While rightsholders hailed a ?landmark? recent high-profile verdict against the operators of Swedish online file-sharing site The Pirate Bay (TPB), legal and digital rights analysts say it was no surprise. While the law of secondary liability for copyright infringement is by no means settled everywhere, TPB?s attitude toward intellectual property protections means the same decision could have happened in other countries as well, they said.
WIPO Members Discuss New Methodology For Development Agenda
Posted on April 26, 2009Member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization are trying this week to agree on implementation of a new development dimension for the UN body and the global intellectual property system. And they have a new methodology proposed by the WIPO secretariat as a starting point.
EU Stakeholders Debate Copyright, Access And Artists In Digital Age
Posted on April 24, 2009BRUSSELS - Copyright should be abolished because it undermines cultural diversity, a Brussels conference has been told.
IP And Sustainable Technology Debate Centres On Access And Benefit-Sharing
Posted on April 23, 2009As the need to protect the global environment grows, questions are being raised about how intellectual property might help incentivise the development of the right kinds of technology and its transfer to places that need it most.
Enforcement The Prevailing IP Trade Policy Priority For EU, US
Posted on April 22, 2009Protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights is emerging as the dominant priority in international trade policy for the European Union and United States, based on communications from trade officials and others. Stimulating innovation also has a significant role.
European Commission On ACTA: TRIPS Is Floor Not Ceiling
Posted on April 22, 2009BRUSSELS - The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is increasingly taking shape, but differences are becoming clearer and internet issues and intermediary liability appear to be giving negotiators some headaches. The European Commission Directorate General Trade on Tuesday invited stakeholders to a consultation meeting to share ideas on the much-debated agreement.
More Time For China On DSB Ruling On IP
Posted on April 22, 2009China repeated its position to the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body Monday that it will “need a reasonable period of time” to implement the DSB ruling that called for changes to its enforcement of intellectual property rights...
Gurry To Judges: We Must Work For Changes To Global Patent Treaty
Posted on April 22, 2009WASHINGTON, DC - The Patent Cooperation Treaty is not performing up to par and is not helping enough to alleviate the stress on the global patent system, World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis Gurry said here Tuesday. The backlog theme was echoed by judges from across the globe who said their dockets are getting fuller with IP-related cases.
Stronger IP Enforcement Finds A Home In Bilateral Trade Agreements
Posted on April 21, 2009Bilateral free trade agreements can have a profound effect on national intellectual property legislation, and a Thursday panel offered countries a deeper understanding of the stronger enforcement provisions typically found in such agreements.
Judge Rules No Webcasts Of Tenenbaum Case
Posted on April 21, 2009Music companies suing music downloader Joel Tenenbaum of Harvard University for copyright infringement won the right to block webcasts of the court proceedings, according to a copy of the opinion available here. The case has attracted national attention for its challenge to the unpopular music industry practice of suing citizens for unauthorised content downloading...
Trust A Missing Ingredient In Global IP Enforcement Policy
Posted on April 21, 2009When it comes to intellectual property rights enforcement, developed country rights owners and their governments continue to puzzle over how to get the rest of the world?s economies to drink from the trough now that they have brought them there. One approach that may regain interest is combining the all-out war on piracy with efforts to build greater trust in the enforcement system.
Obama Administration Lock(e)s And Loads Against Movie Piracy
Posted on April 21, 2009WASHINGTON, DC - The Obama administration will fight for the movie industry and work to aggressively enforce its intellectual property protections both at home and abroad, United States Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said here Tuesday.
IP Private Sector Tests Relevance Of International Policy Organisations
Posted on April 20, 2009CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND ? In an age when private sector interests are arguably returning to dominance in intellectual property policy debates, two key global policy bodies are being pushed to show their relevance.
Farmers, Politicians, Free Software Fans Demonstrate Against Patents
Posted on April 18, 2009Farmers? associations, environmental, aid and development organisations together with anti-patent activists of the free software movement met this week for one of the largest anti-patent rallies in Munich.
Speakers Discuss Technology Transfer For Climate Change; Within Academic Settings
Posted on April 17, 2009Evidence-based policymaking is essential to combat climate change, and ensure the transfer of climate-change-related technology, said a members of a panel held at the World Intellectual Property Organization. But it can be hard to determine where to find that evidence.
The ACTA Threat To The Future Of WIPO
Posted on April 14, 2009Developing countries would do well to demand a place at the table as negotiations for an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement undermine the multilateral approach to intellectual property policy making, argues Michael Geist.
Surprise Rejection Of French HADOPI Bill
Posted on April 09, 2009In an unexpected turn of events, French HADOPI law on the diffusion and protection of works on the internet, was rejected by the French National Assembly today by a vote of 21 votes to 15. This was expected to be the final ratification of the law, already approved by the French Senate and a first [...
Equipo especial de alto nivel sobre derechos humanos dirige su atención hacia la salud y la propiedad intelectual
Posted on April 08, 2009Según un nuevo documento elaborado para el Grupo de Trabajo sobre el Derecho al Desarrollo de Naciones Unidas, la estrategia mundial sobre salud y propiedad intelectual de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) comprende elementos sólidos y posibles cambios paradigmáticos; sin embargo, también presenta lagunas considerables en cuanto a derechos humanos.
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L?Équipe spéciale de haut niveau sur les droits de l?homme s?intéresse à la santé publique et à la propriété intellectuelle
Posted on April 08, 2009Les éléments qui composent la stratégie mondiale pour la santé publique et la propriété intellectuelle de l?Organisation mondiale de la Santé sont d?une grande portée et pourraient même entraîner un bouleversement de l?ordre établi. Toutefois, selon un rapport élaboré à l?attention du Groupe de travail sur le droit au développement des Nations Unies, cette stratégie présente des limites notables en matière de droits de l?homme.
Officials Working Informally Toward May Consensus on Avian Influenza Preparedness
Posted on April 08, 2009An informal meeting last week brought together interested parties from different regional groups, as well as representatives from vaccine manufacturers, as a part of a process to resolve contentious issues on pandemic influenza preparedness remaining from the last formal meeting in December.
President Obama Backs RIAA In Online File-Sharing Case
Posted on April 07, 2009President Obama's US Department of Justice (DOJ) recently filed a legal brief in support of damages sought by an affiliate of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), prompting some observers to speculate on the Obama administration?s impartiality in the RIAA?s file-sharing litigation campaign.
Enzymes A Potential Planet-Saver, But Heavy Patenting Necessary, Industry Says
Posted on April 07, 2009A dominant global producer of enzymes is arguing that enzymes in biotechnology can make a significant contribution to global environment improvement, but this effort comes with heavy patenting by the company.
Industry Urged G20 To Consider Importance Of IP
Posted on April 06, 2009Industry representatives sent a message to the Group of 20 leaders last week that intellectual property rights should be given more attention by governments and could bring benefit to the global economy if properly protected. A representative from the Confederation of British Industries said policymakers should assess the economic value of IP, IP offices should [...
Trademark Decision Brews Up French-Press Coffee Competition
Posted on April 06, 2009Connoisseurs of French-press coffee based in the United States will still be able to choose between two competing distributors for their favourite brewing device following a recent US court decision over trademark rights on the distinctive coffeemakers.
People: Kean Out At WHO; US Trade Team In Place
Posted on April 06, 2009The latest people news in the IP community.
Detailed Summary Of Anti-Counterfeiting Treaty Released
Posted on April 06, 2009Specific topics being discussed under the secretive negotiating process of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement were revealed Monday when the office of US Trade Representative Ron Kirk released a summary of the key elements under discussion. The summary is available from the USTR website here [pdf]...
Advocates Call For Balance In Obama IP Appointments
Posted on April 06, 2009Several recent Obama appointees selected to oversee different aspects of IP policy had immediately before their appointments represented copyright industries, says a letter signed by 19 US-based public interest groups sent to the president last week [pdf]...
Special Interests Seeking Power In ICANN?s New Stakeholder Group
Posted on April 04, 2009The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which coordinates the global domain name system, is in the process of reforming its core bodies, and consumer representatives and others see a possibility to inject more balance into the international organisation?s stakeholder groups long dominated by a range of private sector representatives.
Study: Blanket Licence For Non-Commercial Copies Needed
Posted on April 04, 2009A blanket licence for non-commercial copies is the logical answer to the technology revolution brought on by the internet. This is the conclusion of a study by the Institute of European Media Law commissioned by the German Green Party and presented in Berlin on 3 April...
Les États-Unis se débattent avec la question de la transparence et l?Europe appelle à une divulgation des textes de l?ACAC
Posted on April 03, 2009Les parlements suédois et de l?Union européenne appellent actuellement la Commission européenne à rendre publics tous les documents liés à un traité international anti-contrefaçon gardé confidentiel, après que les États-Unis ont affirmé que ces textes relèvent de la sécurité nationale et donc du secret d?État...
Obama And The Media-Sharing Blues
Posted on April 03, 2009The Electronic Frontier Foundation has reported that Obama’s gift to the Queen of England, an iPod loaded with Broadway showtunes, may have come with some copyright questions. The issue is over where copyright law stands when music being gifted is digital...
High Level Task Force On Human Rights Turns Eye To Health And IP
Posted on April 03, 2009The World Health Organization global strategy on health and intellectual property includes powerful and potentially paradigm-shifting elements, but it also has notable shortcomings for human rights, says a new document prepared for the United Nations group responsible for the right to development.
‘Three-Strikes’ Internet Policy Progresses In France
Posted on April 03, 2009The French National Assembly on 2 April gave initial approval without changes to a restrictive draft law on the diffusion and protection of works on the internet known by its French acronym HADOPI, (IPW, Access to Knowledge, 23 February 2009), according to sources...
“Burning The Ships”: IP And The New, Open Microsoft
Posted on April 03, 2009An interview with Marshall Phelps, Microsoft?s corporate vice president for intellectual property policy and strategy and a mastermind behind IBM?s and Microsoft?s massive IP valuations, and David Kline, journalist, author and intellectual property consultant, on their new book, "Burning The Ships," which looks inside Microsoft's IP strategy.
Compromise US Patent Reform Legislation Clears First Hurdle
Posted on April 02, 2009Sweeping patent reform legislation cleared a key United States Senate committee Thursday and is now headed for a vote on the Senate floor after compromises were reached on key sticking points in the bill.
China IP Offices To Honour Tomb-Sweeping Day?
Posted on April 01, 2009The China Patent & Trademark Office and the State Intellectual Property Office will be closed from 4 to 6 April for Tomb-sweeping Day, a celebration of ancestors, which falls this year on 4 April, according to an email from Hylands Law Firm in Beijing...
Switzerland, US Sign Science & Technology Agreement
Posted on April 01, 2009Switzerland and the United States on Tuesday signed the first-ever bilateral agreement on scientific and technology cooperation in Washington, DC. The framework agreement covers basic and applied research, involves joint programmes and conferences as well as information sharing, and facilitates visa entry requirements for scientific researchers...
Cooling The World By Misappropriating Patent Rights
Posted on April 01, 2009Sidney Rosenzweig of the Progress & Freedom Foundation writes that some countries, such as China, want to take advantage of new environmental technologies without having to pay, and are advocating the use of compulsory licences to access them.
US Trade Team Responds To Protectionist Pressure In Reports On Trading Partners
Posted on March 31, 2009The Obama administration?s new trade team has quickly come under pressure to focus on protecting United States interests, including enforcement of intellectual property rights, at a time when multilateral institutions urge governments to remain open for the sake of the global economy.
G20 Envisions World IP Court; WIPO Hopeful Host
Posted on March 31, 2009LONDON?Leaders of the world?s largest economies struck a closed-door deal late Tuesday to create an international court for intellectual property litigation in a move sources said they deemed a best effort to turn back global economic demise.
Georg Greve on Software Patents
Posted on March 30, 2009Georg Greve makes the case that software fails a three-step test to determine patentability.
Is WIPO A Cybersquatter?
Posted on March 30, 2009The academic Internet Governance Project reports that the World Intellectual Property Organization - a key arbitration body for global internet domain disputes - appears to have registered a domain name using a name trademarked by someone else three years earlier...
Germany Opts For ISP Filtering Of Child Pornography; NGOs Warn Of Unintended Impact
Posted on March 30, 2009Several German ministries seem to be in a footrace to draft legal text for a filtering regime blocking child pornography from German users? personal computers agreed by the government last week.
Strickling Nominated To Head US Telecom & Internet Agency
Posted on March 30, 2009The Obama administration recently nominated Larry Strickling assistant secretary of Commerce for communications and information, a post which would make him head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The NTIA is responsible for the US government agreement overseeing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is the technical coordinator of [...
US Commerce Secretary Locke On Patents
Posted on March 30, 2009Newly confirmed United States Commerce Secretary Gary Locke was asked some questions about patents during his nomination process in the Senate. The Commerce secretary oversees the US Patent and Trademark Office. Here are his responses [pdf], according to a Washington lobbying group.
WIPO Patent Committee Calls For Further Study, Consultations
Posted on March 30, 2009Five new studies on select patent-related topics and informal, open-ended consultations on global issues are the key elements of future work for a World Intellectual Property Organization committee that wrapped up its meeting late Friday.
Industry Gets European Union Buy-In At Event Against Piracy, Counterfeiting
Posted on March 30, 2009The European Commission this week will launch a forum for coordinating attacks against counterfeit and pirated goods, to be announced at a daylong event featuring representatives from a wide range of industries. No representatives of the public interest or consumers appear to be included in the event or related initiatives.
US Wrestles With Transparency As Europeans Urge Release Of ACTA Texts
Posted on March 27, 2009The parliaments of Sweden and the European Union are urging the European Union to make public all documentation related to a secretive global anti-counterfeiting treaty, while the United States has claimed the papers are a matter of national security and therefore a state secret...
Are Patent Exceptions Necessary For Climate Change Technology? Defining WIPO?s Role
Posted on March 26, 2009Addressing the challenge of climate change will require technological solutions and the dissemination of those solutions to as many users as possible. A panel at the World Intellectual Property Organization Tuesday asked how intellectual property law might help or hinder that transfer, and what role the organisation might play in creating the right policy.
US Patent Reform Legislation Progressing; Committee To Reconvene Next Week
Posted on March 26, 2009The committee of the United States Senate drafting legislation to reform the US patent system made little progress at a meeting Thursday, according to sources, but adopted a bipartisan amendment and scheduled to reconvene next week to continue work.
Concerns Voiced At WIPO Over Potential Conflicts Between IP And Standards
Posted on March 25, 2009Regulatory caution on technology standards and intellectual property rights is increasingly necessary, as technology - and the need for interoperability between platforms - dominates the market economy as well as global communications, said a panel on patents and standards Monday.
Locke Confirmed As US Commerce Secretary
Posted on March 25, 2009Gary Locke was confirmed as the United States Commerce Secretary by a unanimous vote in the Senate Tuesday evening. Locke, a former Washington state governor and the first Chinese-American to hold the post, will inherit position shaped by the global recession, but was ?honoured to take on this challenge and will work every day to [...
Parties Accept WTO Dispute Settlement Report On China IP Protection
Posted on March 24, 2009A final decision on a World Trade Organization case over intellectual property rights protection between China and the United States was accepted by the states Friday, with both claiming its arbiter had affirmed their positions.
Patent Meeting Debates Linkages With Development; Exceptions & Limitations
Posted on March 24, 2009Questions on how to best to link patent law and development issues led the opening discussion at this week?s World Intellectual Property Organization meeting on patent law. A WIPO study on exceptions and limitations was discussed Monday and Tuesday, with talk turning towards whether a third party examination of the issue was needed.
GSK Reports On Corporate Responsibility
Posted on March 24, 2009United Kingdom pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline on Tuesday reported on its corporate responsibility activities in 2008 and 2009, including a commitment to cutting prices on patented medicines for poor countries. GSK’s recent public announcement on access to medicines has generated some goodwill for the company though public health advocates and observers have been cautious in their [...
European Patent Office: Patent Applications Slow As Rejections Rise
Posted on March 21, 2009In a trend appearing in other patent offices around the world, patent applications at the European Patent Office continued to rise in 2008, but at a slower rate toward the end of year. At the EPO, this was coupled with the lowest percentage of granted patents in its history.
Agricultural Technology Could Feed Rising Population, But Who Will Own Crops?
Posted on March 20, 2009The genetic revolution has come to food, as debates over how to deal with future pressures of population and climate change look to agricultural technology in hope of answers. But questions still remain over who owns the technology, who will do the research, and what forms of - and even whether - biotechnology is appropriate to human needs and the needs of smallholding farmers.
WIPO, UNCITRAL Team Up On IP And Finance
Posted on March 20, 2009Officials from two lawyerly United Nations agencies met recently to discuss their roles and build cooperation in intellectual property finance, especially in light of the global economic crisis.
DRM Thwarts Gordon Brown’s Effort To Enjoy Gift From Barack Obama
Posted on March 20, 2009United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown was not able to watch the classic American movies presented to him by President Barack Obama thanks to digital rights management technologies, reported the UK press. The technology used in this particular case restricts the part of the world in which a DVD will play - the DVDs purchased [...
WIPO Patent Committee To Consider Four New Reports, Global Challenges
Posted on March 20, 2009The committee on patents at the World Intellectual Property Organization is set to be re-energised next week as it tackles four new reports, and addresses an ongoing question of the relationship of patent rights to wider policy issues on climate change and other environmental issues, public health, and food security.
Concerns As Australia Censors Wikileaks Page
Posted on March 18, 2009Outcry from concerned internet users over Australia’s attempts to censor ‘objectionable’ parts of the web has grown this week as internet-based depository for leaked documents Wikileaks reported that one of its pages is now banned in Australia...
US Senate Approves Kirk As USTR
Posted on March 18, 2009The United States Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved the nomination of United States Trade Representative (USTR) designee Ron Kirk as the nation?s 16th trade representative, according to a USTR office release. As USTR, Kirk is member of President Obama?s Cabinet and serves as the President?s principal trade advisor, negotiator and spokesperson on trade issues...
UKIPO: Copyright Owners And Internet Providers, Please Regulate Yourselves!
Posted on March 18, 2009The United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office on Monday published a proposal for a ?rights agency? that would tackle problems related to digital copyright. The envisioned agency that would be managed and funded by rights owners and take up a two-fold task by facilitating the creation of a digital market and preventing and reducing online piracy.
New Medical Technologies Bring New IP Challenges
Posted on March 17, 2009LYON, FRANCE ? At the cutting edge of medical technology lie new hopes for patients, but also serious ethical concerns and potential intellectual property snags.
Sigue La Expansion De Los Alcances De La Propiedad Intelectual
Posted on March 17, 2009Santiago Roca escriba: La Unión Europea está solicitando mas extensiones en propiedad intelectual que los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica en la negociación del tratado de libre comercio.
UN Agency Issues Guidelines Urging Curbs On Online Pharmacies
Posted on March 17, 2009The International Narcotics Control Board, which implements United Nations drug control conventions, has released a set of guidelines they say will help governments prevent the sale of controlled substances online. “Internet pharmacies can be accessed by anyone, anywhere who happens to be online,” observed INCB’s president, Hamid Ghodse...
Choruss’s Covenant: The Promised Land (Maybe) For Record Labels; A Lesser Destination For Everyone Else
Posted on March 17, 2009Bennett Lincoff writes: If Choruss abandons the time-tested approach of licensing and relies instead on covenants not to sue, it will facilitate a brazen money grab by the major labels it represents, leaving songwriters, recording artists and music publishers empty-handed, and college students holding the bag.
Record Cybersquatting Cases As WIPO Seeks New Trademark Protections
Posted on March 16, 2009A record number of cybersquatting complaints were filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2008, and the organisation is preparing for a potentially much larger set of concerns as the launch of an unknown number of new domains approaches.
$4.7 Billion For Broadband Opportunities In US
Posted on March 16, 2009Rural and underserved areas in the United States will have US $4.7 billion to improve their access to broadband technologies. Some of the funds are earmarked for specific purposes — $250 million will go to sustainable adoption of broadband, for instance, and $200 million will go towards improving technological capacity at libraries, community colleges and [...
Kenya Conference: Financial Incentives Needed For Neglected Disease Research
Posted on March 16, 2009NAIROBI - Governments in Kenya and other developing nations must be willing to provide financial incentives if they expect companies to carry out research and development of drugs specifically tailored to those countries' needs, a conference in Nairobi was told last week.
New Thinking On Biotech Patents From Industry Groups
Posted on March 13, 2009LYON, FRANCE - A new level of willingness to cooperate on major public health initiatives may indicate increased convergence in goals between large pharmaceutical companies and patient advocacy groups, particularly when addressing neglected diseases, a panel at an international life sciences conference said Monday.
Happy Twentieth, World Wide Web
Posted on March 13, 2009The Internet Society (ISOC) and World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee celebrated the web?s twentieth anniversary in Geneva yesterday. As the web continues to grow in all aspects of society and business, the ISOC acknowledges the ?freely accessible standards? and ?open model of development? inherent in the internet that have promoted innovation and made the [...
World Health Organization Issues Statement On Generic Drug Seizures
Posted on March 13, 2009The World Health Organization on Friday issued a statement on a high-profile debate over Dutch customs authorities? delays of shipments of legitimate generic pharmaceuticals passing through the European country on their way to patients in developing countries...
ICANN To IP Experts: Come Back With A Solution For Internet Trademark Protection
Posted on March 12, 2009Trademark issues are emerging with the upcoming introduction of new generic top-level domains on the internet, and the board members of the body introducing the names has passed the ball back to intellectual property experts to find answers.
Inside Views: Deferred Examination: A Solution Whose Time Has Come
Posted on March 12, 2009With over 1 million patent applications backlogged at the US Patent & Trademark Office, IBM legal counsel Steven Bennett and David Kappos urge adoption of a deferred examination process, which they argue will benefit USPTO, applicants and the public.
Lamy Restarts Informal WTO Process On Proposals On IP And Biodiversity, GI Extension
Posted on March 12, 2009World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy on Wednesday kicked off informal talks on two key intellectual property issues that have been stalled by disagreements on the forum and mandate for their discussion.
March/April IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available
Posted on March 12, 2009The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Edition features top news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the international IP community, news briefs and more. The March/April edition is now available for subscribers.
New Legislation Introduced On Biogenerics
Posted on March 12, 2009A new bill introduced Thursday could, if passed, create a pathway for generic versions of complex medications, called biologics, to be approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration. Bills for such a pathway have been introduced before, but none have yet passed...
WTO Review Finds Brazil Progressing On Trade Policy, IP Rights Protection
Posted on March 11, 2009Brazil, once criticised for lax intellectual property rights protection, has been stepping up implementation and enforcement of international IP rules in recent years, a World Trade Organization body announced Wednesday. But some major rights-holding nations urged the government to undertake further work.
Inside Views: Administrative Patent Validity Determinations If The Proposed US Patent Reform Act Of 2009 Passes
Posted on March 09, 2009On 3 March, 2009, bills were introduced in the US Congress setting forth the proposed "Patent Reform Act of 2009". The legislation proposes significant changes to post-issuance proceedings available to challenge patents in the United States. US attorneys Matthew A...
European Generic Industry Concern Over Potential Barrier To Legitimate Medicines
Posted on March 09, 2009A letter to the European Commissioner from the European Generic Medicines Association expresses concern about the detention of medicines in the Netherlands while en route from India to Brazil. While counterfeit medicines deserve “criminal and civil sanctions” as well as seizures, the letter says, “alleged patent infringement cannot be confused with counterfeit and public health [...
WIPO Faces Possible Negative Annual Income Despite Record Trademark Filings
Posted on March 09, 2009The World Intellectual Property Organization is facing the possibility of negative income for the first time in its history, the United Nations agency?s director general said Monday. Director General Francis Gurry made the remarks during a press conference on its annual report on trademark filings at WIPO in 2008 that showed a new record high for trademark registrations but signs of a slowdown late in the year.
WTO Session Tackles Details Of Future Register Of GI Products
Posted on March 06, 2009A World Trade Organization group tasked with creating a register for highly protected names of wines and spirits associated with geographical locations buckled down Thursday to a technical discussion on what it would look like. The focus on these issues sidestepped some broader political questions that have delayed these talks, but fundamental disagreements also remain over the register?s parameters.
Alarm Escalates Over Delayed Generic Drug Shipments As Action Sought
Posted on March 06, 2009Health advocates on Friday escalated their alarm over recent seizures by the Dutch government of shipments of legitimate generic pharmaceuticals passing through Europe on their way to developing countries. The European Commission has defended its actions as permissible under its own and international rules, but is being asked to look more carefully at those rules.
WHO Launches Online Hearing On Innovative Funding Sources For R&D
Posted on March 06, 2009The World Health Organization is soliciting new ideas for funding sources to stimulate research and development on diseases predominantly afflicting developing countries, with some in developed countries. The web-based public hearing, being held online from 7 March to 15 April, will contribute to an intergovernmental mandate to come up with ways to address the shortage of research in this areas.
Business Lobby On IP, US Commerce Secretary Nominee
Posted on February 26, 2009Gary Locke, the former governor of Washington State, is the latest pick of US President Obama for Commerce Secretary. The US Chamber of Commerce, a business lobby group based in Washington, DC, has reviewed his record on intellectual property. Posted on their blog, the review lists past actions by Locke on IP enforcement, primarily to [...
Path Forward For UN-Led Internet Governance Forum Discussed
Posted on February 26, 2009That there will be a future for the international Internet Governance Forum seems likely, though the form its future incarnation will take is not. Delegates to an open consultation on internet governance this week began to sort out some base modalities on how to evaluate the progress of the United Nations-led discussion venue, as a deadline approaches to decide whether and how the group will continue.
Inside Views: Innovation Policy: The Balance Between Standards and Patent Regulation
Posted on February 26, 2009Interconnectivity, commoditisation and increased reuse and recombination are key trends within the maturing information and communication technologies (ICT) industry that drive innovation and development. As the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Information Economy Report 2007-2008 highlights, the ICT sector is a main driver for innovative and economic benefit, with the impact on ICT-enabled sectors potentially outweighing that of the ICT sector itself...
Drug Patent Linkage Is Subject Of Court Case, Dispute In India
Posted on February 25, 2009Should national drug control bodies grant marketing licences to generic medicine companies only if their products do not possibly infringe existing patent rights? Yes, German pharmaceutical company Bayer told the High Court of Delhi last week when the court heard arguments in an ongoing court case on patent linkage.
Enforcement, Creative R&D Financing Priority Issues For Public Health in 2009
Posted on February 25, 2009The number and intensity of debates over the role of intellectual property rights in public health is set to increase in 2009. New leadership and new mandates for key intergovernmental organisations implemented last year have created opportunity for change...
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Des dispositions renforçant la propriété intellectuelle dans certains accords de l?UE menacent l?accès aux médicaments dans les pays pauvres
Posted on February 24, 2009BRUXELLES - Selon certains activistes de la santé publique mondiale, les efforts de l?Union européenne (UE) pour intégrer des dispositions sur les brevets pharmaceutiques dans un certain nombre d?accords de libre échange en cours de négociation pourraient mettre en péril l?accès aux médicaments dans les pays en développement.
Las estrictas disposiciones comerciales de la UE sobre PI representan una amenaza para el acceso de los países pobres a los medicamentos
Posted on February 24, 2009BRUSELAS- Los esfuerzos de la Unión Europea para introducir disposiciones firmes en materia de patentes farmacéuticas en una serie de acuerdos de libre comercio que está negociando podrían poner en peligro el acceso a los medicamentos en los países en desarrollo, según han afirmado activistas de la salud pública a nivel mundial.
Industry Pushes For Biosimilars Approval Process; Some IGOs Take Notice
Posted on February 24, 2009Key players in the biotechnology industry are leading an effort to obtain global approval processes for generic biological medicines, which experts say could provide cheaper access to costly but widely prescribed and promising treatments.
Vaccine Capacity Increasing, But Not Enough, On Pandemic Flu
Posted on February 24, 2009Capacity to make vaccines needed to respond to pandemic influenza has increased 300 percent, according to collaborative study [pdf] by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) released Tuesday...
French Legislature Puts Finishing Touches On Ambitious File-Sharing Law
Posted on February 23, 2009French legislators are putting the final touches on controversial legislation that will likely lead to the most governmentally-proactive law intended to curb illegal file sharing among any other European Union member state.
IP Policy Issues May See Progress In A Changed US Landscape This Year
Posted on February 23, 2009As the United States battles an economic meltdown, items like economic stimulus and home foreclosure relief are taking centre stage. Congress also is still working to confirm President Obama's nominees. But once those items are dealt with, issues such as patent reform and intellectual property enforcement are expected to be hot-button items once again.
Questions On Social Content Ownership After Facebook Policy Changes
Posted on February 23, 2009As the world becomes increasingly digitised, the question of who owns the uploaded pieces of people’s lives — their photographs, their missives to friends, their posted musings and blog entries — is clearly an issue capable of generating a lot of passion...
International Health Groups Warn WHO, WTO On Medicines Seizures
Posted on February 21, 2009Leading international public health advocates have sent letters to the heads of the World Health Organization and World Trade Organization calling on them to act to prevent possible circumvention of international trade rules for intellectual property rights relating to shipments of legal generic drugs bound for developing countries.
Sri Lanka Seeks GI Protection For Ceylon Tea
Posted on February 20, 2009The Sri Lanka Tea Board, will seek intellectual property protection for Ceylon tea (which takes its title from a former name of the island nation), according to a business news source from the country. Protection is sought under the World Trade Organization Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement rules on geographical indications, or [...
US Congressional, USPTO Officials See Geneva Policymaking Up Close
Posted on February 19, 2009A small group of United States congressional staff and officials from the Obama administration working on intellectual property issues were in Geneva this week to discuss IP policy with representatives of intergovernmental organisations and industry, according to sources.
Strong EU Trade Provisions On IP Seen As Threat To Poor Nations? Medicines Access
Posted on February 18, 2009BRUSSELS - Efforts by the European Union to insert strong provisions on pharmaceutical patents in a series of free trade agreements it is negotiating could imperil access to medicines in developing countries, global public health activists have alleged...
Texas Man Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison for Selling Counterfeit Software
Posted on February 18, 2009WASHINGTON - Timothy Kyle Dunaway, 24, of Wichita Falls, Texas, was sentenced today to 41 months in prison by US District Court Judge Reed O?Connor in Wichita Falls for selling counterfeit computer software through the internet in violation of criminal copyright infringement laws, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M...
Intellectual Property Watch Website Updated
Posted on February 18, 2009Readers may have noticed a few changes to the Intellectual Property Watch website, which we hope will make us easier to use as we bring you the same great content like breaking and in-depth stories and expert views, plus new features like a microblog (the IP Burble), better subscription management, improved search capabilities, a new discussion forum, more podcasts and other products and services...
White & Case Analysis of WTO US-China Copyright Case
Posted on February 18, 2009Brendan McGivern, a partner at White & Case law firm in Geneva, issued an analysis of the recent decision by a World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel on a case filed by the United States against China over copyright, customs and criminal matters...
ITU Sees Telecom Innovation As Key To Economic Recovery
Posted on February 18, 2009The UN International Telecommunication Union issued a report at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that found innovation, convergence and a little opportunism will lead the information and communications technology industry out of the current crisis...
ISP Liability, Copyright Term Extension Key IP Issues For Europe This Year
Posted on February 18, 2009The effort to tackle digital piracy is likely to remain the most contentious intellectual property issue in Europe this year. It will be joined by debates on copyright term extension, IP provisions in trade agreements, and an ongoing discussion of patent policy in Europe.
WIPO Rules On jackass.com
Posted on February 18, 2009It is often unfortunate to see what the public servants of the World Intellectual Property Organization domain name arbitration centre must sift through to make decisions on internet name disputes, which generally reflect consumer tastes. In this case, media industry giant Viacom lost its fight for the rights to jackass...
The Critical Amendments in Turkish Trademark Legislation
Posted on February 17, 2009A Turkish firm, Grup Ofis Patents & Trademarks, has highlighted key concerns in Turkey’s new trademark legislation, which it said came into force in January 2009. Click here to read document.
US Copyright Industry Submits On Special 301 Review
Posted on February 17, 2009The International Intellectual Property Alliance, representing much of the US copyright industry, has submitted its allegations of foreign governments’ inadequate protection of US IP rights to the annual Special 301 process of the US Trade Representative’s office...
US Congress, Lobbyists Renew Patent Reform Slog With Focus On Damages
Posted on February 17, 2009With patent reform expected to be introduced sooner rather than later in this 111th United States Congress, calculating damages for infringement remains one of the main sticking points.
New Draft Ethiopian IP Law, Says Local Newspaper
Posted on February 13, 2009The Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office (EIPO) has finished a draft intellectual property law that would help pave the way for fuller membership in the Geneva institutions, according to a local news source from the country. The unconfirmed article says EIPO will present the draft law to the Ethiopian government in the coming months.
EPO Taps Indian Traditional Knowledge Database
Posted on February 13, 2009The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, India’s online repository of traditional knowledge prior art, will now be available for the European Patent Office to use in its patent grant procedure. The digital library translates information from several languages, including Arabic, Hindi, Persian, Sanskrit, and Urdu, into English, French, German, Japanese, and Spanish to help [...
GlaxoSmithKline CEO Calls For Patent Pool
Posted on February 13, 2009Andrew Witty, CEO of pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, said in a speech Friday at Harvard Medical School that GSK will contribute to a patent pool intended to increase innovation on medicines for neglected diseases. A Reuters story on the event is available here.
Proponents Explore Designs For Prizes To Aid Neglected Disease Research
Posted on February 12, 2009The World Health Organization global strategy on public health, innovation and intellectual property calls for the exploration of alternative mechanisms to incentivise research and development, including the use of prize funds. A diverse group of nongovernmental agencies, government and pharmaceutical industry representatives recently looked at prize funds in detail, to determine different possible approaches and where they might best be applied to medical innovations.
Internet Governance Policy In 2009: Transition To New Digital Oversight
Posted on February 12, 2009This year could be a transitional one for global internet governance policy, as the internet?s technical oversight body may finally lose its ties to the United States, the next generation internet comes into its own, the UN Internet Governance Forum will be reviewed, and the world could see the rapid spread of new internet domains.
Sports Federations Keep Up Defence Against Possible IP Infringers
Posted on February 12, 2009Constant vigilance is needed to protect intellectual property rights in sports from creative efforts by ?ambush marketers? and others seeking to take unauthorised advantage of sports events, event organisers say.
US Debates Patent Exam Deferrals; Patent Reform Bill Expected This Year
Posted on February 12, 2009The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is considering a deferred-examination procedure to help reduce the backlog of the more than 770 million patent applications that have not yet been looked at. And the US Congress may be willing to help give the agency the authority to do so in this year's patent-reform legislation.
Five Ways To Handle “Brand Identity Crisis”
Posted on February 11, 2009How to handle the media when a brand identity crisis erupts? The Brand Protection Council (BP Council) counts 5 ways: 1. Get back to basics with the ?3 Rs? ? Regret, Reassurance and Remedy 2. Have a crisis response plan on reserve 3. Ensure rapid response 4...
Estalla la preocupación por el sistema de la OMC y el transporte de medicamentos; se reaviva el debate sobre los ADPIC
Posted on February 10, 2009Por William New Los Embajadores de Brasil e India ante la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) han acusado a otros miembros de la OMC de no tener fundamentos para bloquear el transporte legal de medicamentos genéricos sobre la base de posibles conflictos de derechos de propiedad intelectual (DPI) en el país de tránsito, y advirtieron que [...
Intellectual Property Watch February Edition Now Available
Posted on February 10, 2009The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Edition features top news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the international IP community, news briefs and more. The February edition is now available for subscribers.
ISP Liability, Limitations And Exceptions Top Global Copyright Issues In 2009
Posted on February 09, 2009The Year Ahead: Copyright has taken centre stage again this year as the battle over internet service provider (ISP) responsibility for digital piracy intensifies and spreads around the world. 2009 will also feature growing global pressure for a more harmonised system of copyright limitations and exceptions, and continuing controversy over the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
The Decline of University Patenting and the End of the Bayh-Dole Effect
Posted on February 09, 2009A new study finds a decline in percentage of university patents in the United States as a percentage of overall patents granted by the US Patent and Trademark Organization. It says this is a seeming trend in advanced economies, and hypothesises that it is due to a change in the way that universities are ranked [...
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Des inquiétudes surgissent concernant le système de l?OMC et l?acheminement de médicaments ; reprise des discussions relatives à l’Accord sur les ADPIC
Posted on February 09, 2009Par William New Les ambassadeurs du Brésil, de l?Inde, de l?Union européenne et de la Suisse devraient se rencontrer le 4 février, selon un officiel, afin de discuter de l?ouverture de négociations au sein de l?OMC sur deux propositions qui visent, pour l?une, à étendre à d?autres produits la protection d?indications géographiques dont bénéficient les vins [...
Viviane Reding on the Internet of the Future
Posted on February 06, 2009Viviane Reding of the European Commission on the Internet of the Future: http://tinyurl.com/dlryac
Taubman Of WIPO Picked To Head WTO IP Division
Posted on February 04, 2009By Kaitlin Mara and William New Antony Taubman, acting director and head of the Global Intellectual Property Issues Division at the World Intellectual Property Organization, has been named to the top IP position at the World Trade Organization, the WTO has confirmed...
Concern Erupts Over WTO System And Medicines Shipments; TRIPS Talks Rekindling
Posted on February 03, 2009By William New The ambassadors to the World Trade Organization from Brazil and India on Tuesday charged that other WTO members had no grounds to block legitimate shipping of generic medicines on the basis of potential intellectual property rights conflicts in the transit country and said recent cases of doing so ...
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The Year Ahead: IP Owners Face Tough Legal Issues In United States In 2009
Posted on January 30, 2009By Steven Seidenberg for Intellectual Property Watch 2009 could be a bad year for IP owners in the United States. For patent owners, it may be particularly tough. The US courts are likely to continue their recent trend of cutting back on patent rights, according to many experts...
OMS : l?espoir d?un consensus sur les contrefaçons reporté à l?Assemblée du mois de mai
Posted on January 29, 2009Par Kaitlin Mara La semaine dernière, un rapport et un projet de résolution de l?Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) sur les produits médicaux contrefaits ont donné lieu à un débat animé, bien qu?aucun compromis n?ait encore été trouvé pour mettre fin aux désaccords quant au processus de consultation caché derrière ...
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WIPO Ponders New Negotiating Style; DDG Positions Opening; Patent Filings Falter
Posted on January 29, 2009By William New The World Intellectual Property Organization saw record patent filings again in 2008, but the rate of growth is slowing, WIPO Director General Francis Gurry said Tuesday. Meanwhile, the WIPO secretariat is privately exploring with member governments ways to break through a longstanding deadlock in policy negotiations underway at ...
El esperado consenso en torno al informe y al proyecto de resolución sobre falsificación de la OMS se aplaza hasta la Asamblea de mayo
Posted on January 29, 2009Por Kaitlin Mara La semana pasada, un informe y un proyecto de resolución sobre la falsificación de productos médicos de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) generaron acalorados debates, aunque aún no se han logrado avenencias para salvar las distancias en lo relativo al proceso de consultas que subyace en ...
The Last Defence Of The IP System: An Interview With Jamie Boyle
Posted on January 28, 2009James Boyle is a leading thinker on copyright and knowledge access, and is author of a new book called The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (available at thepublicdomain.org). He is a law professor and cofounder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke ...
Inside Views: The Last Defence Of The IP System: An Interview With Jamie Boyle
Posted on January 28, 2009James Boyle is a leading thinker on copyright and knowledge access, and is author of a new book called The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (available at thepublicdomain.org or here as a PDF). He is a law professor and cofounder of the Center for the Study of ...
Licensing Remains Essential But Elusive For Digital Music Providers
Posted on January 28, 2009By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch CANNES - Giving licences to digital music providers has been on top of the agenda of the world?s largest music fair, Midem, and its technology forum Midemnet for about a decade now. But simple solutions still are not on the horizon and more and ...
Hope For Consensus On WHO And Counterfeits Moves To May Assembly
Posted on January 27, 2009By Kaitlin Mara A World Health Organization report and draft resolution on counterfeit medical products drew energetic debate last week, though no compromise has yet been found to bridge disagreements over the consultation process behind the counterfeit report and over the risk of confusing intellectual property violations with potentially dangerous ...
Potential Names For Obama IP Team Swirl; WTO IP Chief ?Imminent?
Posted on January 27, 2009By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch and William New Changes in several key international agencies and governments will bring a cadre of new faces to positions that address intellectual property policy, and some potential names for those spots have been circulating in recent weeks...
Proposed EU Copyright Term Extension Faces Vocal Opposition In Parliament
Posted on January 27, 2009By David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch BRUSSELS - Strong opposition is being voiced by members of the European Parliament over plans to extend the copyright protection applying to sound recordings from 50 to 95 years. Both left and right-leaning Parliament members (MEPs) have signalled that they intend to vote against ...
WHO Global Strategy On IP And Health Considered, Implementation Advances
Posted on January 27, 2009By Kaitlin Mara Progress made on the World Health Organization strategy on public health and innovation was highlighted to WHO members on Saturday, including the production of a key budgeting document detailing timeframes and estimated costs of implementing the strategy...
WTO Issues Final Decision On US-China Copyright Dispute
Posted on January 26, 2009By Kaitlin Mara and William New China has been found in violation of two of its responsibilities under international rules on trade and intellectual property, and in partial violation of one more, said a World Trade Organization panel report on the US-China dispute over copyright and customs matters released Monday...
New International Pharma Industry Leader Brings Prospect Of Change
Posted on January 23, 2009By William New Alicia Greenidge represents a change for the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, but as she grows into her role as the head of the industry's international trade association, it is unclear whether there will be substantive changes on policy relating to intellectual property and public health...
WHO Puts Nearly $150 Billion Price Tag On Global R&D Strategy For Neglected Diseases
Posted on January 22, 2009By Kaitlin Mara Estimated funding needs for the implementation of the World Health Organization strategy on global public health and intellectual property have been revealed in a new document. The document lays out element by element the expected cost of implementing the Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation ...
WHO Members Make Informal Progress On Plan Of Action As Executive Board Opens
Posted on January 20, 2009By Kaitlin Mara A small, diverse group of member states meeting informally over the weekend were able to resolve questions of which institutions should be actors in a broader plan of action for the implementation of the World Health Organization Global Strategy on Public Health, Innovation, and Intellectual Property, according to ...
IP From Publicly Funded Research Should Benefit The Public, Experts Say
Posted on January 16, 2009By Catherine Saez Publicly funded research institutions are major players in the area of life sciences and policies on intellectual property management emanating from this research have to be defined, according to speakers at a recent symposium in Geneva...
Counterfeit Medication, R&D Financing Key IP Issues at WHO Board Meeting
Posted on January 16, 2009By Kaitlin Mara The Executive Board of the World Health Organization meets next week with significant discussion expected on a new secretariat report on counterfeit medical products as well as on the implementation of the WHO?s mandated global strategy on public health, innovation, and intellectual property...
Revised Chinese Patent Law Aims At Quality, Compulsory Licensing
Posted on January 15, 2009By Jia Hepeng and Yuan Yue for Intellectual Property Watch BEIJING - China?s newly revised patent law could create a more favourable environment for foreign companies to do research in the country, though measures are still needed to implement the law more effectively, according to some legal experts...
FAO Plant Treaty To Operationalise Benefit-Sharing Fund
Posted on January 14, 2009By Kaitlin Mara Benefits from sharing and using biodiversity of food crops could soon be making their way to stakeholders, as the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture prepares to make its benefit-sharing fund fully operational...
Un nouveau projet pour permettre aux scientifiques d?accéder librement à la littérature sur la physique des particules
Posted on January 13, 2009Par Catherine Saez Alors que le prix des abonnements aux revues de physique des particules ne cesse d?augmenter, rendant difficile pour certains chercheurs de pouvoir accéder à des articles importants relus par des pairs, de grands physiciens ont mis en place un modèle alternatif de diffusion en libre accès...
Proyecto en marcha para convertir las publicaciones sobre la física de alta energía en un formato de acceso abierto
Posted on January 12, 2009Por Catherine Saez Destacados físicos han presentado un modelo alternativo para la publicación en formato de acceso abierto, a medida que el aumento de los precios de las revistas altamente especializadas sobre la física de alta energía pone en peligro el acceso de los investigadores a importantes artículos examinados por colegas ...
World Customs Organization To Replace Controversial IP Standards Body; Doubts Remain
Posted on January 08, 2009By William New In what might be seen as a victory for defenders of flexibilities for poor nations in international trade rules, the World Customs Organization in December recommended the discontinuance of a working group on intellectual property enforcement standards after it became ?deeply embroiled? in debate from member governments fearing ...
Experts Examine Strategies For IP And Sustainable Development
Posted on January 07, 2009By William New Developing nations increasingly are receiving tools to help them participate in and benefit from the global intellectual property system, according to a group of experts who met recently on IP strategies. And now is a critical time for those nations to learn to use those tools to stimulate ...
Project Underway To Convert High Energy Physics Literature To Open Access
Posted on January 05, 2009By Catherine Saez As rising prices of top-quality journals in high-energy physics jeopardise researchers? access to essential peer-reviewed articles, leading physicists have put forward an alternative model for open access publishing. Access to past and current research reports is of vital importance for researchers according to the high-energy physics (HEP) community, and ...
US IP Attachés Take Hard-Line Position On Overseas IP Enforcement
Posted on December 26, 2008By Drew Clark for Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC - Nations ranging from Brazil to Brunei to Russia are failing to properly protect the intellectual property assets of US companies and others, and international organisations are not doing enough to stop it, seven IP attachés to the US Foreign and Commercial ...
RIAA Claims Scale-Down Of US Copyright Litigation; Details Of New Plan Unclear
Posted on December 23, 2008By Bruce Gain for Intellectual Property Watch Representatives from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) have confirmed that the organisation has opted to suspend its strategy of suing individuals accused of illegal file-sharing in the United States and to instead work more closely with internet service providers to thwart copyright ...
Interest in China, Climate Change Arises From Different Sectors
Posted on December 23, 2008By Kaitlin Mara The importance of the Chinese economy as both a manufacturing giant and, increasingly, as a consumer of manufactured goods makes it clear that the country must play a key role in simultaneous global efforts to combat the threat of climate change and end the current financial crisis, a ...
Progresa la reunión sobre preparación para la gripe aviar; el tema de la PI aún sin resolver
Posted on December 23, 2008Por Kaitlin Mara Se logró un gran avance en la reunión sobre preparación para una gripe pandémica, celebrada por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) en diciembre: los delegados presentes buscaron ?y encontraron? una manera de satisfacer a los Estados Miembros cuyos puntos de vista divergen en cuanto a la ...
Progrès lors de la réunion sur la préparation en cas de grippe pandémique, même si les question de propriété intellectuelle restent à résoudre
Posted on December 23, 2008Par Kaitlin Mara Des avancées significatives ont été réalisées lors de la réunion intergouvernementale sur la préparation en cas de grippe pandémique organisée par l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) au début du mois de décembre : les délégations présentes ont essayé avec succès de contenter les opinions divergentes des ...
L?Assemblée générale de l?OMPI approuve le nouveau budget et lance le programme de « changement stratégique »
Posted on December 23, 2008Par William New C?est par un vote formel que les États membres de l?Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI) ont accordé leur confiance au programme de changement stratégique du nouveau Secrétariat de l?organisation et ont approuvé à l?unanimité le nouveau budget 2008-2009...
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No ACTA Deal Yet As EU Parliament Seeks Narrower Scope, More Transparency
Posted on December 20, 2008By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch As negotiations on the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) continued in Paris this week with again no public details the European Parliament Thursday sent a strong signal by requesting transparency in the negotiations...
Confidential Document From WIPO Details Strategy On IP, Climate Change
Posted on December 18, 2008By Kaitlin Mara A draft document on climate change and intellectual property, prepared for informal consultations by the World Intellectual Property Organization and obtained by Intellectual Property Watch, shows WIPO poised to take a role in technical matters of IP and the global climate crisis...
Draft Programme Of WIPO Funder Meeting For Development
Posted on December 16, 2008The World Intellectual Property Organization secretariat has circulated a draft programme for a funders' meeting for IP and development in 2009 that includes proposed panels on IP projects in developing countries; science and innovation for development; WIPO-World Trade Organization cooperation; digital content in developing countries; work with indigenous communities; and ...
Last-Minute Progress Made On Pandemic Flu; More Still To Come
Posted on December 15, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Significant strides were made at last week?s World Health Organization meeting on pandemic influenza preparedness, as assembled delegates searched for - and found - a way to satisfy member states? differing views on the need for access to viruses and related biological materials and the need for access ...
Internet Governance Forum: ACTA A Possible Show-Stopper For IP Progress
Posted on December 14, 2008By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch The third annual United Nations-led Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, India this month addressed a range of topics related to intellectual property rights and the free flow of information, and provided a venue for doubts about a closed-door international anti-counterfeiting treaty negotiation being led ...
Le système « Peer To Patent » pourrait servir de modèle pour les offices des brevets
Posted on December 13, 2008Par Liza Porteus Viana pour Intellectual Property Watch Un système pilote de révision des brevets par les pairs initié aux Etats-Unis pourrait servir de modèle aux offices de brevets dans le monde. L?Ecole de droit de New York, connue sous le nom de New York Law School (NYLS) en collaboration avec l?Office ...
US Technology, IP Industries Offer Policy Wish Lists For Obama
Posted on December 12, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch The United States Chamber of Commerce is calling on President-Elect Barack Obama to fill key intellectual property enforcement posts within the first 100 days of taking office. Meanwhile, other trade associations also have delineated their wishes on IP, innovation and technology, with one calling ...
Lamy invita a los Miembros de la OMC descontentos a que usen el examen del Acuerdo sobre los ADPIC y la Salud Pública
Posted on December 12, 2008Por William New Se afirma hace un tiempo que no están funcionando las disposiciones de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) destinadas a incrementar el acceso a los medicamentos de los países pobres. En respuesta a estas afirmaciones, el Director General de la OMC, Pascal Lamy, comentó el pasado martes que ...
Pascal Lamy invite les membres de l?OMC mécontents à utiliser le réexamen de l?Accord sur les ADPIC et la santé publique
Posted on December 12, 2008Par William New Mardi, face aux allégations de longue date qui nient l?efficacité des règles de l?Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) visant à améliorer l?accès aux médicaments dans les pays pauvres, le Directeur général de l?OMC, Pascal Lamy, a appelé les membres mécontents à utiliser le mécanisme de réexamen annuel de ...
Accélération des efforts de l?Afrique dans la lutte anti-contrefaçon menée par les pays développés
Posted on December 12, 2008Par Nick Wadhams pour Intellectual Property Watch NAIROBI, KENYA ? Suite à la crainte d?un déferlement sur l?Afrique de contrefaçons de médicaments et de pesticides, l?organisme international chargé de l?application des lois INTERPOL ouvre la voie vers un renforcement des efforts et des moyens pour que les autorités soient conscientes de ...
WIPO Assembly Approves New Budget Unlocking Gears Of Change
Posted on December 12, 2008By William New The member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization gave their first vote of confidence for the secretariat?s plans to realign the UN organisation Friday as they unanimously approved a reworked budget for 2008-2009. The approval came in an extraordinary one-day General Assembly that ended quickly after the ...
Sistema de revisión abierta de solicitudes de patentes puede convertirse en modelo para las oficinas de patentes
Posted on December 12, 2008Por Liza Porteus Viana para Intellectual Property Watch Un sistema piloto de revisión abierta de solicitudes de patentes en Estados Unidos podría servir como modelo para las oficinas de patentes de todo el mundo. La New York Law School (NYLS), en colaboración con la Oficina de Patentes y Marcas de Estados Unidos ...
New WIPO Director?s Revised Budget On Track To Passage After Debate
Posted on December 11, 2008By William New The powerful World Intellectual Property Organization Program and Budget Committee on Thursday approved a new one-year budget funding the start of a strategic organisational realignment, with clarifications to reflect concerns of developing countries on development funding and increased enforcement activities...
WHO Members Slow To Bridge Disagreements At Pandemic Flu Meeting
Posted on December 11, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Four days into one-week ?critical? negotiations on pandemic influenza preparedness, World Health Organization members had yet to tackle areas of core disagreement and participants were expressing doubt as to whether consensus can be achieved by week?s end...
Technology, IP Vital To Addressing Climate Change, UN Meeting Hears
Posted on December 11, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Finding a balance between needed incentives for innovation and equally needed affordable access to new technology is necessary to combat ecological challenges, yet striking it may prove difficult as countries at the United Nations? talks on climate change struggle to determine what action is possible in the midst ...
Generic Drugmakers, Activists Praise Lamy; Gurry Defends ?Respect? For IP
Posted on December 10, 2008By William New Generic pharmaceutical producers have grown in importance in recent years despite or because of intellectual property rights, and at their annual meeting this week in Geneva they attracted the leaders of the primary intergovernmental institutions engaged in IP rights policy...
Budget Debates Arise Again At WIPO; Development Fears Run High
Posted on December 10, 2008By William New The World Intellectual Property Organization could be considered a financial stalwart of the United Nations system, self-funding and usually running large positive balances. But recent years have seen the rise in influence of developing countries at WIPO, and this week those countries are calling on the organisation?s new ...
An Alternative Proposal For Enhancing Developing Country Access To Patented Medicines
Posted on December 10, 2008By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch An intellectual property model intended to preserve the structure of patent protection while adding balance for developing countries has been proposed to provide incentives for innovators to contribute toward the alleviation of suffering in developing countries in dire need of patented medicines largely ...
Lamy Challenges Discontented WTO Members To Use TRIPS Public Health Review
Posted on December 09, 2008By William New Confronted with longstanding assertions that World Trade Organization rules intended to bring greater access to medicines to poor countries are not working, WTO Director General Pascal Lamy said Tuesday discontented members should use the annual review of those rules if they have a complaint...
Droits de propriété intellectuelle et organismes génétiquement modifiés : une combinaison fatale selon les activistes
Posted on December 09, 2008Par Catherine Saez L?extension des brevets aux organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM) et leur production dans de nombreux pays menacent les droits des agriculteurs et la biodiversité, la sécurité alimentaire dépendant de plus en plus d'une poignée d'entreprises transnationales de biotechnologie, selon les intervenants à un atelier qui s'est déroulé récemment à ...
Rapid Rise In African Anti-Counterfeiting Efforts Led By Developed Nations
Posted on December 09, 2008By Nick Wadhams for Intellectual Property Watch NAIROBI, KENYA - Amid fears that huge quantities of counterfeit medicines and pesticides are pouring into Africa, the international law enforcement agency INTERPOL is leading the way to invest more effort and money to bring authorities up to speed on the threat faced by ...
Propiedad intelectual y organismos modificados genéticamente: una combinación que los activistas consideran fatídica
Posted on December 08, 2008Por Catherine Saez Según los oradores de un reciente taller llevado a cabo en Ginebra, debido a la expansión del alcance de las patentes de organismos modificados genéticamente (OMG) y la aplicación de dichos cultivos en la mayoría de los países, los derechos de los agricultores y la biodiversidad están en ...
With US Patent Overhaul Dead, Agencies Ponder Changes As Industry Debates Role Of ?Trolls?
Posted on December 08, 2008By Drew Clark for Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC - With major legislative changes to the United States patent system unfinished as the 110th Congress prepares to dissolve, Executive- and Judicial-branch agencies on Friday jostled for authority over future patent policy...
WHO Renews Delicate Effort On Pandemic Influenza Virus-Sharing
Posted on December 08, 2008By Kaitlin Mara An avian influenza outbreak would be a public health disaster, but for the World Health Organization to adequately prepare for that risk, member states must come to a resolution on intellectual property issues related to virus and vaccine sharing...
UN Internet Governance Forum 2008: Friends And Foes, But More Friends
Posted on December 05, 2008By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch HYDERABAD, INDIA - The Internet Governance Forum of the United Nations is halfway through its first term and starting to think about its future after 2010. Gathering in Hyderabad, India this week, it brings together friends and foes of what has been cast as ...
WTO: Progress On IP At Last; Consensus Still Uncertain
Posted on December 05, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Delegates negotiating on intellectual property issues at the World Trade Organization were able to set aside procedural debates Friday and focus on substantive technical issues in the body tasked with creating a multilateral register for geographical indications on wines and spirits...
US Appeals Court Hears High-Profile Case On USPTO Power Over Patent Rules
Posted on December 05, 2008By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch Before a packed audience, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Friday tackled the highly controversial dispute between the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and much of the patent bar over rules capping the number of continuation requests and ...
Debate Over EU Finding That Pharmaceutical Firms Abusing Patent System
Posted on December 05, 2008By David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch BRUSSELS - Leading pharmaceutical companies are using the patent system to delay the entry of generic medicines onto the market, the European Commission has alleged, sparking a debate at a conference held here this week...
WTO IP Negotiations Lengthen As New Questions Put On Table
Posted on December 05, 2008By Kaitlin Mara The body at the World Trade Organization tasked with negotiating a multilateral register for geographically-named wines and spirits began what could be several days of meetings Thursday with a question and answer session meant to find common understanding, but instead revealed just how deep the divide remains between ...
Inside Views: The Man Who Took On The Music Industry
Posted on December 03, 2008Ray Beckerman is a commercial litigator and internet law attorney who has represented defendants that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has accused of music file sharing in copyright infringement lawsuits in the United States. Beckerman is an outspoken critic against the RIAA and recording companies EMI, SONY BMG, ...
IP And Genetically Modified Organisms: A Fateful Combination, Activists Say
Posted on December 02, 2008By Catherine Saez With the expanding scope of patents on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the implementation of such crops in most countries, farmers? rights and biodiversity are at risk, and food security has become dependent on a few transnational biotechnological companies, according to speakers at a recent workshop in Geneva...
Brazilian Draft Law Would Curb Expanded Patents On Pharmaceuticals
Posted on December 02, 2008By Claudia Jurberg for Intellectual Property Watch RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil?s lower house of Congress held a recent hearing to discuss proposed changes to rules on pharmaceutical patents that would limit patents on two types of pharmaceuticals. Under proposed legislation, patent rights would not be permitted in two modalities: second-use ...
Discussions Continue In Informal WTO Special Session On GI Register
Posted on December 02, 2008By Kaitlin Mara The World Trade Organization body mandated to discuss a registry for geographical indications met Monday, with the only resulting agreement being to meet again later this week for further, more technical, discussions. Several ambassadors were present at the meeting, according to sources, indicating that in the lead-up to a ...
Expertos estiman que la propiedad intelectual precisa tomar un nuevo rumbo en el ámbito de la biotecnología
Posted on December 01, 2008Por Catherine Saez PARÍS ? Los participantes de un reciente seminario que tuvo lugar en esta ciudad opinan que la biotecnología necesita considerablemente cambiar su modelo de negocios, restaurar la confianza entre los diferentes actores y establecer cooperaciones...
Parole d?experts : la propriété intellectuelle sur les biotechnologies a besoin d?un nouveau départ
Posted on December 01, 2008Par Catherine Saez PARIS - Selon certains participants à un séminaire qui s?est récemment tenu à Paris, le secteur des biotechnologies a sérieusement besoin de modifier son mode de fonctionnement, de restaurer la confiance entre les différents acteurs et d?établir des partenariats...
Peer To Patent System May Become Model For Patent Offices
Posted on December 01, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch A pilot patent peer review system in the United States could serve as a model for patent offices around the globe. New York Law School, in cooperation with the US Patent and Trademark Office, is in its second year of Peer To Patent, an ...
Questions soulevées quant aux incidences du projet de bibliothèque Google sur l?accès au savoir
Posted on December 01, 2008Par William New Ce qui a été annoncé comme une percée dans la numérisation du savoir humain soulève également des questions par rapport à la manière dont la plupart des êtes humains vont pouvoir accéder à ce savoir, d?après un expert en droit d?auteur et l?intérêt public général...
Proyecto de biblioteca de Google suscita inquietudes respecto a su impacto sobre el acceso a los conocimientos
Posted on December 01, 2008Por William New El acuerdo que ha sido proclamado como un gran avance en la digitalización del conocimiento humano también está abriendo ciertos interrogantes sobre el acceso a esta información para la mayoría de las personas, según comentó un experto en cuestiones de derechos de autor e interés público...
WTO IP Discussion In Question With Possible Ministerial On Horizon
Posted on November 28, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Delegates are buckling down on key negotiating issues in the final days they have to decide whether or not there can be a high-level meeting of government ministers in December, and intellectual property-related issues appear still to be at an impasse with another IP meeting scheduled for Monday...
IP Roadmap Aims At Facilitating Technology Transfer In The Arab World
Posted on November 28, 2008By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch An intellectual property ?roadmap? for the Arab world has been proposed for facilitating technology transfer as well as the adaptation of acquired technologies to local needs and contributing to the evolution of new technologies and their transfer to the marketplace...
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Questions Raised About Google Library Project?s Impact On Knowledge Access
Posted on November 26, 2008By William New What has been heralded as a breakthrough in the digitisation of human knowledge is also raising questions about how most humans will access that knowledge, according to an expert in copyright and the public interest. Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, recently raised ...
Brand Owners Urge Caution On New Top-Level Internet Domain Names
Posted on November 26, 2008By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch Trademark owners are not likely to benefit from the approval by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) of a predicted 500 new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), industry speakers said at a 25 November Web seminar on protecting and promoting brands ...
Librarians Take The Copyright Battleground In Developing Countries
Posted on November 26, 2008By William New CHISINAU, MOLDOVA - Creativity may not be the first thing that comes to mind when travelling through the kilometres of mostly grey, Soviet-era cement-block buildings outlying the capital of Moldova, often referred to as Europe?s poorest state...
Should The EU Rethink Copyright Law For The Digital Music Age?
Posted on November 25, 2008By David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch BRUSSELS - Europe?s copyright rules are ill-suited to an age when millions of music files can be accessed at the click of a mouse, a Brussels conference has been told. About eight million tracks by musicians from a wide variety of genres can now ...
Push For TRIPS Changes Reaches Highest Level At WTO As Meetings Intensify
Posted on November 21, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Proponents of amending the World Trade Organization intellectual property agreement to increase protection for biodiversity and for geographically-specific products are insisting Director General Pascal Lamy himself lead the process for resolving the issues...
IP In Biotechnology In Need Of A New Start, Experts Say
Posted on November 21, 2008By Catherine Saez PARIS - Biotechnology is in dire need of a change to its business model, restoring trust among all actors and building partnerships, according to participants in a recent seminar here. After nearly thirty years, the industry still is not making profits, the field seems to be running out ...
L?AIPLA face aux défis majeurs des élections américaines et de l?économie internationale
Posted on November 20, 2008Par Dugie Standeford pour Intellectual Property Watch LA HAGUE, PAYS-BAS ? L?association américaine du droit de propriété intellectuelle (American Intellectual Property Law Association-AIPLA) va devoir relever des défis politiques, législatifs et administratifs de grande ampleur dans les prochains mois, comme l?a expliqué son nouveau directeur exécutif Q...
EU Favours Disclosure Of Computer Patents Before Standards Are Set
Posted on November 20, 2008By David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch BRUSSELS - Computer firms may be required to divulge details of patents they hold before technology standards are set, a senior European Commission official has said. More than a year after the European Court of Justice ruled that Microsoft was abusing its dominant position in ...
Ministers, Stakeholders Meet In Mali To Strategise On Health Research Systems
Posted on November 20, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Ministers of health, science and technology, and social development met this week with scientific researchers and representatives from foundations, the private sector and civil society to discuss the future of research for health on diseases disproportionately affecting the developing world...
El caso Egyptian Goddess devuelve fuerza efectiva a derechos de diseños industriales de EE. UU.
Posted on November 19, 2008Por Steven Seidenberg para Intellectual Property Watch En las últimas dos décadas, los derechos de diseños industriales fueron escasamente respetados en Estados Unidos. Pero eso terminó. Según diversos especialistas, la reciente resolución judicial en el caso Egyptian Goddess, Inc...
IP Model Proposed For North-South Nanotechnology Divide
Posted on November 19, 2008By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch Developing countries need to pool resources to ensure access to scientific and technical knowledge about nanotechnology in order to narrow the ?nano-divide? - similar to the digital and genomics divides - resulting from the implications of nanotech-related intellectual property rights on monopoly practices, technology ...
Team Of Experts Form WHO Working Group On IP And Neglected Diseases
Posted on November 19, 2008By Kaitlin Mara The World Health Organization has released a long-awaited list of high-level experts tasked with finding innovative funding mechanisms for needed medical research on neglected diseases. The list largely contains governmental and intergovernmental representatives, and first reactions to it have been generally positive...
Trademark Protection, Broadcast Rights Vital For Sports, Say Stakeholders
Posted on November 19, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Intellectual property protection is key to the innovation and infrastructure surrounding athletic achievement, said speakers at a World Intellectual Property Organization training event for journalists last week. Trademark protection, copyright protection and other forms of IP rights ensure that the organisations that promote sport and its participants can ...
Protection des dessins industriels: un retour au droit antérieur
Posted on November 19, 2008Par Steven Seidenberg pour Intellectual Property Watch Au cours des deux dernières décennies, les droits afférents au dessin industriel ont été peu respectés aux Etats-Unis. Ce n?est plus le cas aujourd'hui. La décision rendue récemment dans l?affaire Egyptian Goddess, Inc c...
Elecciones estadounidenses y economía mundial, los principales retos para la Asociación de PI de los EE.UU.
Posted on November 19, 2008Por Dugie Standeford para Intellectual Property Watch LA HAYA, PAÍSES BAJOS- La Asociación Americana del Derecho de la Propiedad Intelectual (AIPLA, por sus siglas en inglés) se enfrentará en los próximos meses a profundos desafíos políticos, legislativos y administrativos, según comentó Q...
November Edition of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available
Posted on November 18, 2008The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Reporter features the most important news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the IP community at the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Geneva missions, regional and national IP offices, industry and non-governmental organisations, plus News Briefs on reports ...
Controversy Over Internet Governance: ITU Families And ICANN Cosmetics?
Posted on November 18, 2008By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch The Council of the UN International Telecommunication Union is set to talk Wednesday about the Union's contribution to follow-up of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the third Internet Governance Forum (IGF)...
US Elections, Global Economy Are Major Challenges For US IP Association
Posted on November 14, 2008By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - The American Intellectual Property Law Association faces profound political, legislative and administrative challenges in coming months, new Executive Director Q. Todd Dickinson said in a 13 November interview in The Hague...
Doll Is New Deputy At USPTO; More Changes On The Way
Posted on November 14, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch John Doll will be the new acting deputy undersecretary of Commerce for intellectual property and deputy director of the US Patent and Trademark Office, replacing Margaret Peterlin, effective immediately...
Trilateral IP Offices Under New Pressure To Harmonise Patent Processing
Posted on November 13, 2008By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS - Patent offices are facing heat from industry to make good on promises to coordinate global processing of patent applications. Despite years of talk of streamlining the handling of applications, reducing duplication and creating more reliable international patents, agencies have failed ...
Egyptian Goddess Puts Teeth Back In US Industrial Design Rights
Posted on November 12, 2008By Steven Seidenberg for Intellectual Property Watch For the past two decades, industrial design rights have received little respect in the United States. But no longer. The recent court ruling in Egyptian Goddess, Inc v Swisa, Inc has dramatically strengthened industrial design rights in the US, bringing the country's protections for these ...
Brazil, EU Collaborate On Local Production Of AIDS Drugs In Mozambique
Posted on November 10, 2008By Claudia Jurberg for Intellectual Property Watch RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Health Minister José Gomes Temporão and the President of Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Paulo Buss, recently inaugurated an office of the foundation in Maputo, Mozambique, to produce medicines and offer courses on public health...
Impact Of The Probable Incorporation Of An Additional Step (Of Public Interest) In Indian Injunction Jurisprudence
Posted on November 10, 2008By Swarup KumarFrom the content of the recently decided Roche v Cipla 2008 (37) PTC 71(Del) interim order issued by Justice S. Ravinder Bhatt of Delhi High Court, it appears that an additional step, i.e., a fourth step of public interest - over and above the three-step test laid down ...
Korea Close On ?Graduated Response? Bill Aimed At Copyright Infringers
Posted on November 10, 2008By Catherine Saez Korean legislation might be getting tougher on copyright infringers as a new bill is expected to be considered by the National Assembly as soon as this month, according to a Korean official. Following France, the United Kingdom and other countries, Korea?s new bill would include four changes among ...
WIPO Committee Advances Agenda On Copyright Exceptions, Broadcasting
Posted on November 09, 2008By William New As the senior staff of the World Intellectual Property Organization gathered outside its headquarters Friday to set the foundation stone of a new office building, WIPO member governments were struggling inside to agree on the foundation for the future of its key committee on copyright...
User-Created Content Shows Uncertainty In EU Copyright Law
Posted on November 07, 2008By David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch BRUSSELS - Uncertainty surrounds the application of European Union copyright rules to material uploaded onto the internet by private individuals, a new study has found. Recent years have seen a proliferation of websites such as Facebook, YouTube and Flickr which allow their users to ...
EU-Africa Partnership Aims At Knowledge Access, Technology Transfer
Posted on November 07, 2008By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch The European Commission and African Union Commission have agreed to launch six projects in science, space and information technology in a bid to strengthen African scientific capacity, promote technical cooperation, facilitate technology transfer and accelerate the development of African education and research through increasing ...
Bilski Ruling Moves US Closer To Global Norms For Patenting
Posted on November 06, 2008By Steven Seidenberg for Intellectual Property Watch Compared with other countries, the United States has had a much more expansive view of what inventions can be patented. Late last week, however, the US took one big step closer to international norms...
Who Will Advise Obama On IP? Let The Names Begin
Posted on November 05, 2008By Liza Porteus for Intellectual Property Watch with William New There are many questions as to what the President Barack Obama administration will look like - with no shortage of players participating in the Washington parlour game right now. The US and the world will cast a watchful eye on whom Obama ...
Obama Victory Draws Quick Reactions From IP, Tech Communities
Posted on November 05, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch, with Kaitlin Mara and William New The intellectual property community has been quick to begin the anticipation of a Barack Obama presidency in the United States following his election on Tuesday...
Protection des indications géographiques et biodiversité : la pression s?accentue
Posted on November 04, 2008Par Kaitlin Mara Les partisans d'une modification de l?Accord de l?OMC sur les droits de propriété intellectuelle ont clairement montré cette semaine qu?ils n?entendaient pas céder un pouce de terrain sur l?extension de la protection des indications géographiques et l?utilisation du système de brevet pour sauvegarder la biodiversité et les savoirs ...
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Persisten los esfuerzos por una enmienda sobre biodiversidad en el Acuerdo sobre los ADPIC; ampliación de las indicaciones geográficas
Posted on November 03, 2008Por Kaitlin Mara No han cesado los esfuerzos por enmendar el acuerdo de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) en materia de derechos de propiedad intelectual, tal como lo dejaron en claro esta semana los partidarios de una ampliación de la protección de las indicaciones geográficas y del uso del sistema ...
Participants Ready Agendas For New-Look WIPO Copyright Committee
Posted on October 31, 2008By William New World Intellectual Property Organization members gather in Geneva next week to take up old and new agenda items targeting international policy on copyright and related rights. Emerging agenda items are limitations and exceptions to copyright - including a possible proposed treaty on access for the visually impaired, and ...
UPOV Future Work To Include Global Policy Challenges
Posted on October 31, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Against the background of increasing food prices and related questions of food security and agricultural sustainability, the new secretary general of an international organisation protecting plant varieties outlined his future plans for the UN body...
Push Continues For TRIPS Amendment, Geographical Indications Extension
Posted on October 30, 2008By Kaitlin Mara The push to amend the World Trade Organization agreement on intellectual property rights has not receded, as made clear this week by proponents of wider protection for geographical indications and using the patent system to safeguard biodiversity and traditional knowledge...
Inside Views: WIPO Negotiations Threaten Exclusive ?Signal-Based? Protection In Broadcasting
Posted on October 30, 2008By Relfi Paul, PhD Scholar, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India The various aspects of the application of copyright and neighbouring rights in the digital age have been discussed under the aegis of World Trade Organization (WTO), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)...
Google Books Settlement A Possible Path To Resolution Of Digital Content Disputes
Posted on October 30, 2008By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch Google?s groundbreaking settlement of copyright infringement claims by authors and book publishers this week resonates beyond the United States, the European Commission and a UK copyright lawyer said...
WIPO Pitches Proposed Programme Of Strategic Realignment
Posted on October 29, 2008By William New A few weeks after its new director general took office, the World Intellectual Property Organization has announced a programme of strategic realignment in the secretariat aimed at opening up the organisation and improving the focus on customer service...
In-Depth Interview With WIPO Director General Francis Gurry
Posted on October 28, 2008Francis Gurry became the fourth director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization on 1 October. Gurry, an Australian, is a 23-year veteran of WIPO, most recently deputy director general in charge patents, the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre and global IP issues...
Improbable Match: Open Licences And Collecting Societies In Europe
Posted on October 28, 2008By Catherine Saez A French musical group has signed a contract with French collecting society Sacem allowing the exclusion of the group?s internet rights that some claim opens a door to a new model where authors could manage their internet rights while the collecting society administers all other rights related to ...
Groups Seek Legal Right To Access For The Blind Under EU Copyright Rules
Posted on October 27, 2008By David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch BRUSSELS - Exceptions to European Union copyright rules designed to allow blind people access to publications should be made legally binding, according to disability rights organisations. In July, the European Commission opened a public consultation exercise on whether a central piece of EU law on ...
New Arab Group Aims At Protecting Local Products With Geographical Origins
Posted on October 27, 2008By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch In a bid to harness the significant value of geographical indications to the economies of the 22 member states of the Arab League, an Arab Society for Geographical Indications (ASGI) has been proposed. This was announced by Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, president of the private-sector Arab Society ...
Panel: WTO Cross-Retaliation Could Bring Compliance But Political Pressure High
Posted on October 24, 2008By Catherine Saez Inducing compliance, after a favourable ruling of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body, from countries which breached international trade rules can prove difficult, especially for developing countries. For many of them, retaliation in a trade sector unrelated to the one affected by the violation of WTO ...
TRIPS May Evolve To Keep Pace With Modern IP Concerns
Posted on October 24, 2008By Dugie Standeford and Kaitlin Mara The World Trade Organization Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS) is being ?recalibrated? as developing and developed countries challenge old assumptions, Vanderbilt University law professor Daniel Gervais said this week...
Le Comité de l?OMPI sur les savoirs traditionnels et le folklore ne parvient pas à trouver d?accord
Posted on October 23, 2008Par Kaitlin Mara Vendredi dernier, en fin de soirée, ce sont des représentants gouvernementaux épuisés qui ont dû admettre que les négociations internationales relatives aux savoirs traditionnels et au folklore qui se sont déroulées à l?Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI) étaient dans l?impasse...
No hay acuerdo en las negociaciones del Comité de la OMPI sobre conocimientos tradicionales y folclore
Posted on October 23, 2008Por Kaitlin Mara Tarde en la noche del viernes, los para entonces cansados funcionarios gubernamentales tuvieron que admitir que habían llegado a un punto muerto en las negociaciones de la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual sobre la protección internacional de los conocimientos tradicionales y el folclore...
Indigenous People Seek Recognition At WIPO Meeting On Their Rights
Posted on October 23, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Indigenous groups are looking for better representation at the United Nations body negotiating on issues related to the protection of their traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. At the World Intellectual Property Organization last week, indigenous groups, member states, and interested non-governmental organisations came together for the Intergovernmental Committee ...
IP-Watch Reader Survey - Last Chance!
Posted on October 22, 2008Last call for surveys! We value your views - this is the final reminder about our reader survey. Please click on the link included in this email and tell us what you think about the Intellectual Property Watch website and publications. It only takes 5 minutes and ...
Inside Views: WIPO DG Francis Gurry Speaks On His Plans
Posted on October 22, 2008Videocast: Intellectual Property Watch sat down with the World Intellectual Property Organization's new director general, Francis Gurry, to discuss his plans for the organisation. The appointment of Gurry was widely hailed by supporters as a positive change, and a way to get WIPO back to its original mandate of managing ...
World Customs Organization Publications Copyright Policy Questioned
Posted on October 21, 2008By William New In an unusual policy for an international organisation, the World Customs Organization imposes copyright over every document its bodies produce, even agendas, which means that no document can be reproduced without the organisation?s express consent...
RealDVD Court Case Could Prompt More Commercial-Grade DVD Copying Software
Posted on October 20, 2008By Bruce Gain for Intellectual Property Watch An upcoming federal court ruling in the United States that will determine whether or not RealNetworks' RealDVD copying software violates the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) will likely have a major impact on releases of similar software in the near future...
Islamic Strategy: Knowledge Access, Local Innovation And IP Protection
Posted on October 20, 2008By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch Islamic states have declared 2009 "the year for renewal and innovation" and will launch a project to prepare a landmark map of science, technology and innovation to promote science and technology investment and technical cooperation both within the Islamic world, and between the ...
Governments, Financial Stakeholders Meet On Policy For IP As Collateral
Posted on October 19, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch Intellectual property and financial stakeholders, representatives from developing and developed countries, and nongovernmental organisations are in Vienna this week to work on a global guide on how to use intellectual property as collateral in commerce...
No Agreement For WIPO Committee On Traditional Knowledge And Folklore
Posted on October 18, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Late Friday evening, weary government officials had to admit they had reached a deadlock in negotiations on international protection of traditional knowledge and folklore at the World Intellectual Property Organization. ?No agreement,? said the meeting?s chair, Rigoberto Gauto Vielman, leaving the closing plenary...
New Text For Committee On Traditional Knowledge, Folklore, And Genetic Resources
Posted on October 17, 2008The chair of the World Intellectual Property Organization Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore has released a draft chairman's proposal for accelerated work at the next two meetings of the IGC...
WIPO Poised To Move To Talks On Potential Traditional Knowledge ?Treaty?
Posted on October 17, 2008By Kaitlin Mara and William New Member states of the committee on traditional knowledge, genetic resources, and folklore at the World Intellectual Property Organization on Friday must decide whether and how they will carry on the work of the committee after this week?s session ends...
WIPO Committee On Traditional Knowledge And Folklore Running In Place
Posted on October 16, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Work of the World Intellectual Property Organisation body dedicated to the protection of traditional knowledge and folklore this week has moved largely to informal meetings after progress in the full plenary sessions over the first few days proved elusive...
Progress In WIPO Traditional Knowledge Committee Seen In Informal Sessions
Posted on October 16, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Movement is beginning to be seen at the World Intellectual Property Organization body tasked with discussing protection for traditional knowledge and folklore as informal meetings - and, in particular, bilateral meetings between the African Group and other regional groups - begin to bridge differences on modalities for future ...
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WIPO Creates, Seeks To Fill Top Posts Targeting Economic, Global Challenges
Posted on October 15, 2008By Kaitlin Mara The World Intellectual Property Organization has advertised a range of top positions, including head of the Internal Audit Section, chef de cabinet (director of the director general's office) and his/her deputy, a chief information officer, a human resources director, a chief economist and an official responsible for global ...
President Bush Signs New IP Enforcement Bill Into Law
Posted on October 14, 2008By Catherine Saez President Bush on Monday signed into law a bill strengthening civil and criminal laws against counterfeiting and piracy, boosting resources for enforcement and prosecution, and changing coordination of IP enforcement issues within the Executive Branch...
WTO Members Call For More TRIPS Talks; Director Post May Open Up
Posted on October 14, 2008By William New Whether the World Trade Organization director general position will be up for grabs in the new year remains a question, as current DG Pascal Lamy is deciding by December whether to run for the post again. Meanwhile, numerous member governments on Tuesday called for any further trade negotiations ...
Gurry marca el comienzo de una nueva etapa de esperanza y multilateralismo en la OMPI
Posted on October 13, 2008Por William New Francis Gurry, funcionario de la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI) desde hace muchos años, se hizo cargo de la organización este mes y trajo consigo la esperanza de las partes interesadas de aportar tranquilidad interna y reconocimiento mundial al organismo de Naciones Unidas, aunque el futuro ...
Francis Gurry ouvre les portes d?une nouvelle ère d?espoir et de multilatéralisme à l?OMPI
Posted on October 13, 2008Par William New Fonctionnaire de longue date à l?Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI), Francis Gurry a ce mois-ci pris les rênes de l?organisation. Les différents partenaires espèrent que son élection marquera un retour au calme au sein de l?institution des Nations Unies et que celle-ci retrouvera une place pertinente ...
October Edition of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available
Posted on October 13, 2008The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Reporter features the most important news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the IP community at the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Geneva missions, regional and national IP offices, industry and non-governmental organisations, plus News Briefs on reports ...
Stage Set For WIPO To Advance On Traditional Knowledge, Folklore Protection
Posted on October 11, 2008By Kaitlin Mara The World Intellectual Property Organization committee on traditional knowledge and genetic resources meets next week with a new sense of purpose. New on the table are two detailed reports from the secretariat highlighting areas where international policy may be needed, an African Group proposal calling for an international ...
La crise économique pousse les titulaires de DPI (et leurs conseillers juridiques) à se protéger
Posted on October 09, 2008Par Liza Porteus Viana pour Intellectual Property Watch NEW YORK ? Alors que la propriété intellectuelle gagne de l'importance dans le contexte de l'économie d'innovation, de plus en plus de titulaires de droits de propriété intellectuelle (DPI) cherchent à protéger leurs idées et leurs innovations grâce à la brevetabilité des méthodes ...
La crisis económica incita a los titulares de PI (y a sus abogados) a buscar protección
Posted on October 09, 2008Por Liza Porteus Viana para Intellectual Property Watch NUEVA YORK ? A medida que aumenta el valor de la propiedad intelectual en la economía de innovación, son cada vez más numerosos los titulares de PI (propiedad intelectual) que están tratando de proteger sus ideas e innovaciones mediante patentes sobre métodos de ...
Intellectual Property And Access Can Co-Exist, US Rightsholders Say
Posted on October 09, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC - There is a growing backlash against intellectual property rights and international rules aimed at protecting innovation and ideas in certain parts of the globe, several pharmaceutical and other innovator companies said Wednesday...
US Government Seeking IP Law Experts; Signs Work-Sharing Deals
Posted on October 08, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC - Private patent law attorneys should answer a higher calling and serve in the United States government so that experienced, practiced experts may help steer the country's patent system toward a better future, the chief judge of the US Court of ...
Reader Survey - Now Is The Time!
Posted on October 07, 2008A reminder to our readers: the first-ever Intellectual Property Watch survey is online - it?s simple and takes 5 minutes to complete! This is the time to tell the IP-Watch team what you like and dislike, what you would like to see or not see, what we should write about ...
Chaque camps revendique la victoire dans la bataille juridique sur le partage de musique en ligne
Posted on October 06, 2008Par Bruce Gain pour Intellectual Property Watch Après cinq années de lutte et plus de 30 000 procès, chacun des protagoniste de la bataille juridique engagée aux Etats-Unis concernant le partage de la musique en ligne estime avoir obtenu gain de cause...
Ambas partes se proclaman victoriosas en el litigio del intercambio de archivos en la industria discográfica estadounidense
Posted on October 06, 2008Por Bruce Gain para Intellectual Property Watch Después de cinco años y de más de 30.000 demandas judiciales, ambas partes de la batalla legal de la industria discográfica contra el intercambio ilegal de archivos en EE. UU. se adjudican la victoria. De un lado, la Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), ...
Key US Senators Warn Bush Administration On ACTA
Posted on October 03, 2008By William New The leaders of the powerful United States Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday warned US trade negotiators to rein in the scope of negotiations on an international treaty against counterfeiting, and to make the process more transparent...
Leahy-Specter Letter To USTR On ACTA
Posted on October 03, 2008US senators Patrick Leahy (Democrat, Vermont) and Arlen Specter (Republican, Pennsylvania), the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, warned the US Trade Representative not to negotiate an overly broad Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and criticised the Bush administration for not supporting their bill in Congress to strengthen US IP protection ...
WIPO Working Group To Reconsider Rules On Appellations Of Origin
Posted on October 02, 2008By Kaitlin Mara World Intellectual Property Organization members last Friday set up a working group to consider improvements to an international agreement on appellations of origin - names of products reflecting particular cultural or environmental aspects of a geographic location...
ICANN Tries To Alleviate Concerns About Independence And Its Future
Posted on October 02, 2008By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch In September 2009, the joint project agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the United States government comes to a close. Now the organisation responsible for coordinating the internet domain name, internet protocol address and protocol number systems is ...
Economic Crisis Sends IP Owners (And Their Lawyers) Looking For Protection
Posted on October 02, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch NEW YORK - As the value of intellectual property increases in the innovation economy, an increasing number of IP owners are trying to guard their ideas and innovations through business-method patents, international trade agreements, biological patents and other forms of protection...
Both Sides Claim Victory In US Music Industry File-Sharing Litigation
Posted on October 01, 2008By Bruce Gain for Intellectual Property Watch Five years and over 30,000 lawsuits later, both sides in the music industry's legal battle against illegal file-sharing in the United States claim they are prevailing. Please note: this article is password protected and only available for IP-Watch Subscribers...
Photographs Of Ongoing WIPO Construction
Posted on October 01, 2008Construction of a new office building at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) continues apace, with the expected completion date for the CHF153 million (US$137 million) project, October 2010, still on track (IPW, WIPO, 26 September 2008)...
US Congress Hastens Through Flurry Of IP Legislation Before Departure
Posted on October 01, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch In the waning days of this congressional session in the United States, US lawmakers are passing a flurry of intellectual property-related bills. One of the bills awaiting President Bush's signature would create a position of a top intellectual property official in the ...
Global Access To Medicines Not Improved By TRIPS Waiver, Some Say
Posted on October 01, 2008By Catherine Saez A much-heralded 2003 waiver to World Trade Organization intellectual property rules aimed at helping poor countries receive needed medicines they cannot produce themselves has brought little if any help five years later, according to governments and public health advocates...
Optimism Reigns As WIPO Assemblies Close, Gurry Takes Office
Posted on September 30, 2008By William New Member governments of the UN World Intellectual Property Organization concluded this year?s annual assemblies with high optimism for the future of the intellectual property system and for the organisation. ?We?re glad to see WIPO back to its routine,? a Brazilian official said after the assemblies adjourned Monday night...
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Internal EU Documents On WIPO Gap Analysis
Posted on September 30, 2008The Council of the European Union has prepared a confidential draft contribution to the World Intellectual Property Organization gap analyses on traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, which will be discussed at the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore from 13 to 17 ...
WIPO Assembly To Wrap Up Early; Budget Issues Wait For December
Posted on September 26, 2008By William New and Kaitlin Mara Member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization completed their annual General Assemblies earlier than scheduled this year, but some of the most difficult decisions - such as the budget - will be addressed at a special session in December...
Biotech, Pharma Industries To Target IP Protection Legislation, Patent Reform
Posted on September 26, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch When the new administration and Congress come into office following the November elections in the United States, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries will prioritise protection of their intellectual property and innovative biological drugs as the push for cheaper, generic versions gets stronger...
WHO Asserts Global IP And Health Strategy Progressing But Offers Few Details
Posted on September 25, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Work is ongoing within the World Health Organization on a member-mandated global strategy on public health, innovation and intellectual property, a WHO official said Tuesday. But little information about that work has been forthcoming since the strategy was approved in May...
?IP-5? Biggest Patent Offices Meet As WIPO Assembly Proceeds On Policies
Posted on September 25, 2008By William New Top officials from the world's five biggest patent offices met Wednesday night in Geneva to discuss ways to further harmonise their activities, United States Patent Commissioner John Doll told Intellectual Property Watch. Meanwhile, members of the World Intellectual Property Organization gave direction to committees on enforcement, copyright, and ...
Green Marketers Discuss IP Protection For A Greener Market
Posted on September 23, 2008By Kaitlin Mara As more companies embrace environmental sustainability as an essential part of business strategy, policymakers have been questioning what they can do to create a policy environment conducive to green business. Intellectual Property Watch spoke to several green business professionals to get their view on the IP policy environments ...
Naming DG Tops List Of Policy, Administrative Issues For WIPO Assembly
Posted on September 22, 2008By William New The 2008 annual assemblies of the World Intellectual Property Organization likely will be remembered for some time, as the choices member governments make there this week may have a profound effect on the future of the United Nations organisation...
Idris Bids WIPO Farewell; Newly Appointed DG Gurry Outlines Initiatives
Posted on September 22, 2008By William New Australian Francis Gurry became the next in a short list of leaders of the World Intellectual Property Organization Monday, and promptly signalled a programme of increased multilateralism and bolstered global and local relevance for the United Nations body...
Le Sud riposte contre les excès dans l?application des droits de propriété intellectuelle
Posted on September 22, 2008Catherine Saez, William New et Kaitlin Mara Pour les pays en développement les plus avancés et notamment la Chine, les efforts déployés par les pays développés pour intensifier la mise en application des droits de propriété intellectuelle (DPI) sont excessifs et devraient être freinés et centralisés par l?Organisation mondiale de la ...
El Sur reacciona enérgicamente contra la observancia excesiva de la PI
Posted on September 22, 2008Por Catherine Saez, William New y Kaitlin Mara Los países desarrollados se están excediendo en su afán por intensificar la aplicación de los derechos de propiedad intelectual y sus esfuerzos deberían ser refrenados y canalizados a través de la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual, según señalaron los países en desarrollo ...
New IP Model Proposed To Facilitate Technology Access in Developing Countries
Posted on September 19, 2008By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch Biotechnology policymakers, business leaders, and academics need to adopt a new intellectual property strategy focussed on cooperation and collaboration, rather than the current counterproductive model that encourages patenting as much as possible, says the report of an international panel of experts...
Los medios de negocio abierto suplen las carencias de la tradicional industria del entretenimiento
Posted on September 18, 2008Por Kaitlin Mara Más allá del dominio de la tradicional industria del entretenimiento, protegida por marcas comerciales y cuyos propietarios son grandes estudios, existe un sinfín de artistas sin audiencias que están buscando la manera de distribuir su creatividad, y grupos de personas que anhelan el arte que refleja las ...
Des solutions alternatives comblent un vide laissé par l?industrie traditionnelle du divertissement
Posted on September 18, 2008Par Kaitlin Mara Hors des frontières du royaume de l'industrie traditionnelle du divertissement, régi par les gros studios et placé sous la protection des marques, on rencontre un très grand nombre d'artistes sans public à la recherche de moyens pour distribuer leurs créations...
Public Interest Groups Sue US Trade Representative Over ?Secret? Enforcement Treaty
Posted on September 18, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Perhaps no topic over the past year has been cause for more uneasy speculation within the intellectual property community than the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), primarily because the negotiating process for this treaty has been behind tightly closed doors...
US Says China To Sign Bilateral Cooperation Deals On IP Enforcement
Posted on September 17, 2008By Kaitlin Mara High-level officials from China and the United States on Tuesday reiterated their joint commitment to ?strategic cooperation? on copyright and trademark protection and enforcement, and agreed to hold further meetings of a joint intellectual property working group in the near future...
The South Strikes Back Against Overreaching IP Enforcement
Posted on September 17, 2008By Catherine Saez, William New and Kaitlin Mara Developed nations are overreaching in their broad push to escalate enforcement of intellectual property rights and their efforts should be reined in and centralised in the World Intellectual Property Organization, say leading developing nations led by China...
Drug Regulatory Agencies Collaborate On Counterfeits, New Medical Products
Posted on September 17, 2008By Kaitlin Mara BERN - Representatives from drug regulatory bodies are meeting this week in Bern, Switzerland, to discuss collaboration in an increasingly international world. Key topics of concern in the meetings include counterfeit drugs and issues in the production of new medical products...
Industry Still Wary Of ICANN Plan For New Top-Level Internet Domains
Posted on September 15, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has not adequately explained to the world the need for more generic top-level domains (gTLDs - such as .com), industry representatives said last week...
Le symposium sur la nouvelle économie culturelle appelle à élargir le débat sur les droits d?auteur
Posted on September 15, 2008Par Monika Ermert pour Intellectual Property Watch LINZ, AUTRICHE - Les discussions concernant les droits d?auteur se résument de plus en plus à un débat entre les pirates «qui pille absolument tout» et les détenteurs de droits d?auteur «qui veulent tout protéger», a averti Joichi Ito, un entrepreneur japonais, blogueur reconnu ...
Simposio insta a cesar el debate dicotómico sobre titulares de derechos contra piratas
Posted on September 15, 2008Por Monika Ermert para Intellectual Property Watch LINZ, AUSTRIA - La discusión sobre el derecho de autor se ha convertido en un debate simplista y dicotómico entre ?piratas que roban todo? y ?titulares de derechos que todo desean proteger?, advirtió Joichi Ito, empresario japonés, blogger y director general de Creative ...
Officials Urge Progress On Law To Boost Science, Innovation In Thailand
Posted on September 15, 2008By Sinfah Tunsarawuth for Intellectual Property Watch BANGKOK - Recently enacted legislation establishing a national plan on science, technology and innovation is expected to boost Thailand?s competitiveness in science and technology, according to government officials...
Inside Views: Voices From Innovative Business Projects in Brazil and Nigeria
Posted on September 12, 2008Intellectual Property Watch caught up with innovative business leaders Regina Casé and Charles Igwe at the Access to Knowledge Conference in Geneva on 9 September. Look below to see what they had to say on piracy and cultural expression within their industries, and then click here to read more about ...
Open Business Systems Fill Gap In Mainstream Entertainment Industry
Posted on September 12, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Outside the realm of mainstream proprietary entertainment, owned by big studios and protected by brand names, lay large numbers of artists without audiences looking for the means to distribute their creativity, and groups of people who yearn for art reflective of experiences not touched upon by the mainstream ...
US IP Industry Group Pushes ?Green? Patents; Adopts Resolution On Compulsory Licences
Posted on September 11, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch BOSTON - More companies have joined a global effort to improve the environment by pledging "green" patents for use in the public domain. Meanwhile, a US IP law group passed a resolution on IP and public health, including provisions urging restriction of compulsory ...
Key Consumer Advocate Jumps To Microsoft; USPTO Official To Industry Group
Posted on September 11, 2008A top consumer advocate has joined the Microsoft Corporation to lobby for its interests in Brussels. Plus, changes at the top for a Washington IP industry association, and Japan's patent office. Please note: this article is password protected and only available for IP-Watch Subscribers...
Top IP-Owning Nations Claim Faster Patent Processing; Near Harmonisation Deal
Posted on September 10, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch BOSTON - Japan next month will roll out a new patent process which aims to examine a patent application anywhere from two weeks to one month from receipt of request. Meanwhile, the United States said patent harmonisation among top IP countries is near, ...
US Judge: US Patent Law Destabilising; ?Right To Patent? Under Attack
Posted on September 10, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch BOSTON - Patent law in the United States is in danger of becoming "highly destabilised" as well-funded competing interests try to vie for legislators' ears in Washington, a federal judge said Tuesday...
The First-Ever Intellectual Property Watch Reader Survey
Posted on September 10, 2008After 3 1/2 years of publishing articles and comments on IP policy it's high time we at Intellectual Property Watch asked your views on our website and our products. Influence the news! Take this short, simple and totally confidential survey and let us know what you think! In case of ...
Can Non-Western Language Internet Addresses Solve The Digital Divide? The Case Of Arabic
Posted on September 09, 2008By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch Arab information technology experts have welcomed a recent development in internet governance that could allow the use of Arabic script website addresses, saying it will help to protect Arabic culture, remove the language barrier and reduce the digital and knowledge gap between the Arab ...
Access To Knowledge Conference Begins Addressing New Challenges With New Ideas
Posted on September 09, 2008By Kaitlin Mara A key conference on access to knowledge (A2K) opened Monday, with veterans of the A2K movement mixed with many new faces and all participants hoping to find new ideas over the next few days, as they seek to clarify the best paths forward...
El siempre creciente ?movimiento? de acceso a los conocimientos busca fortalecerse mediante la diversidad
Posted on September 08, 2008Por Kaitlin Mara La inclusión de un texto sobre el ?acceso a los conocimientos? en un acuerdo sobre derechos de propiedad intelectual y desarrollo a finales del año pasado fue percibida por los partidarios de esta iniciativa como un gran éxito. Algunas propuestas, que hace unos años habrían sido consideradas ...
Symposium Calls For End Of Binary Discussion Of Rightsholders Versus Pirates
Posted on September 07, 2008By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch LINZ, AUSTRIA - Copyright discussion has become a simplistic binary debate of "pirates that steal everything" versus "rightsholders that want to protect everything," warned Japanese entrepreneur, blogger and CEO of the Creative Commons Joichi Ito in his opening remarks for this year?s Ars Electronica ...
Le mouvement grandissant en faveur de l?accès aux connaissances puise sa force dans la diversité
Posted on September 06, 2008Par Kaitlin Mara À la fin de l?année dernière, les partisans de l?« accès aux connaissances » ont vécu come une victoire l?insertion de dispositions sur le sujet dans un accord relatif aux droits de propriété intellectuelle et au développement. Une idée qui, il y a encore quelques années, aurait été ...
US Presidential Candidates Prioritise IP Issues But Diverge On Details
Posted on September 05, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch The presidential election in the United States is getting down to the wire, with Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama being officially chosen as their parties' nominees. The intellectual property community is taking particular note of what positions the candidates are taking on ...
Appropriate IP System Touted For Local Science-Based Industry In Islamic Nations
Posted on September 04, 2008By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch Growth of intellectual property rights depends on the level of technological development and most Islamic countries are seen as marginalised and scientifically lagging least-developed countries. This has led some experts in the region to call for a system-wide approach to make IP rights supportive ...
New Geneva Think Tank Features Developing Nation Research On IP
Posted on September 03, 2008By Kaitlin Mara A new think-tank in Geneva has found a unique way to bring the collective power of leading developing country thinkers and researchers to bear on Geneva policy-making, while allowing those thinkers to remain current by staying within their own national contexts...
Inside Views: India?s Section 3(d) Conundrum
Posted on September 02, 2008Editor's Note: This submission refers to the 2005 patent law in India, which amended India's 1970 patent law and implemented the 1994 World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). India allowed proposed patent applications to be submitted in advance to a mailbox before the law's ...
EE.UU.: tribunal hace valer las licencias de código abierto; gran impacto en las leyes sobre derechos de autor
Posted on August 29, 2008Por Steven Seidenberg para Intellectual Property Watch El fallo no tiene valor de precedente. No obstante, la reciente decisión del caso Jacobsen v. Katzer (en inglés) tendrá un gran impacto en las leyes estadounidenses sobre derechos de autor, según expertos en propiedad intelectual (PI)...
La justice américaine reconnaît le caractère exécutoire des licences open source : impact majeur en perspective sur le droit d?auteur aux Etats-Unis
Posted on August 29, 2008Steven Seidenberg pour Intellectual Property Watch La décision ne fera pas jurisprudence. Néanmoins, selon certains spécialistes de la propriété intellectuelle, le récent jugement de l?affaire Jacobsen contre Katzer aura des conséquences majeures sur le droit d?auteur aux États-Unis...
Experts Discuss The Role Of IP In Environmental Technology Transfer
Posted on August 29, 2008Experts Discuss The Role Of IP In Environmental Technology Transfer
US Court Finds Open Source Licences Enforceable; Big Impact Seen On US Copyright Law
Posted on August 26, 2008By Steven Seidenberg for Intellectual Property Watch The ruling has no precedential value. Nevertheless, the recent decision in Jacobsen v. Katzer will have a major impact on US copyright law, according to IP experts. Jacobsen held that open source licences can be enforced under US copyright law...
August/September Edition of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available
Posted on August 21, 2008The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Reporter features the most important news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the IP community at the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Geneva missions, regional and national IP offices, industry and non-governmental organisations, plus News Briefs on reports ...
Difícil aplicación de metas de biodiversidad y seguridad alimentaria en tratado internacional sobre semillas
Posted on August 15, 2008Por Catherine Saez Mientras el mundo lucha contra una crisis global de alimentos, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) está trabajando para apoyar la biodiversidad, como una forma de contribuir a la seguridad alimentaria...
Traité ACTA : inquiétudes concernant le caractère secret des négociations
Posted on August 15, 2008Par Monika Ermert pour Intellectual Property Watch Des représentants des milieux industriels et gouvernementaux, ainsi que des experts dans le domaine du droit de la propriété intellectuelle se sont déclarés surpris par le secret qui entoure les négociations sur le Traité international de lutte contre la contrefaçon (ACTA)...
ACTA: las negociaciones progresan ?detrás del telón?; muchas preocupaciones
Posted on August 14, 2008Por Monika Ermert para Intellectual Property Watch Los representantes de la industria y del público y los especialistas en derecho de propiedad intelectual están desconcertados por el permanente secreto en el cual se están llevando a cabo las negociaciones sobre el propuesto Acuerdo Comercial contra la Falsificación (ACTA, por su sigla ...
Le volume des demandes de brevet continue d?augmenter mais risque de se stabiliser ? les petits pays sont sous-représentés.
Posted on August 14, 2008Par William New Les dépôts de demandes de brevet poursuivent leur courbe ascendante, de même que les problèmes liés à l?assurance qualité et au traitement du volume croissant des demandes. Comme l?ont fait remarquer des représentants de l?Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle, des efforts doivent être consentis pour faciliter l?accès ...
Traité international sur les ressources phytogénétiques pour l?alimentation et l?agriculture: des objectifs difficiles à mettre en ?uvre
Posted on August 13, 2008Par Catherine Saez Alors que le monde est confronté à une crise alimentaire, l?Organisation des Nations Unies pour l?agriculture et l?alimentation (FAO) tente de défendre la biodiversité afin de contribuer à la sécurité alimentaire. À cette fin, elle a lancé une initiative visant à garantir la diversité génétique agricole mondiale dans ...
Siguen en aumento las solicitudes de patente en el mundo, pero podrían estabilizarse. Las naciones pequeñas decaen
Posted on August 12, 2008Por William New A escala mundial, en particular en algunas naciones, la presentación de solicitudes de patente sigue creciendo, a medida que aumentan los problemas de procesamiento de solicitudes de gran volumen y de aseguramiento de calidad. Sin embargo, debe prestarse más atención a la introducción de las economías pequeñas en ...
Anti-Counterfeiting Initiative Aimed At Protecting African Medical Industries
Posted on August 08, 2008By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch West African people should establish a medical anti-counterfeiting task force to promote local herbal medicines by protecting indigenous knowledge and genetic property and establishing benefit-sharing systems in addition to tackling the spread of cheap, fake medicines that are causing an unnecessary loss of life, ...
Brazil Probes Pharmaceutical Industry For Building High-Cost Drug Demand
Posted on August 08, 2008By Claudia Jurberg for Intellectual Property Watch RIO DE JANEIRO - An investigation was conducted recently by the civil police in Sao Paulo State, Brazil, against multinational pharmaceutical companies, in which the prosecution affirmed that laboratories pay lawyers to get patients the right to obtain high-cost medicines through the Brazilian health ...
International Seed Treaty?s Goals Of Biodiversity, Food Security Tough To Implement
Posted on August 07, 2008By Catherine Saez As the world struggles with a global food crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) is working to support biodiversity as a way to contribute to food security. To that end, the FAO has launched an initiative to ensure that this global genetic ...
New US Voucher Prize System For Neglected Diseases Launches Amid Doubts
Posted on August 06, 2008By Tatum Anderson for Intellectual Property Watch As a novel prize system to encourage the development of treatments for diseases that disproportionately affect patients in developing countries launches in the United States next month, concerns are already being voiced as to whether it will provide the right incentives for desperately-needed drugs...
Global Patent Filings Continue Rise But May Level Off; Smaller Nations Slipping
Posted on August 05, 2008By William New Patent filings continue to rise globally, especially in a few nations, as do problems of high-volume application processing and quality assurance. But more attention is needed to bring smaller economies into the patent system, and patenting may slow down with tough economic times, officials at the World Intellectual ...
Aumentan las actividades de PI de la UNCTAD gracias al mandato renovado; mayor colaboración
Posted on August 04, 2008Por Catherine Saez Las cuestiones relacionadas con la propiedad intelectual (PI) parecen ser un claro enfoque de políticas de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo (UNCTAD), ya que la 12.va conferencia cuatrienal de la UNCTAD celebrada en abril reconfirmó el mandato sobre PI; la organización fue nombrada ...
Renouvellement du mandat de la CNUCED et renforcement de la collaboration dans le domaine de la propriété intellectuelle
Posted on August 04, 2008Par Catherine Saez Les questions liées à la propriété intellectuelle apparaissent comme un objectif clé des politiques mises en oeuvre par la Conférence des Nations Unies pour le commerce et le développement (CNUCED) au regard de la décision prise lors de la 12ème Conférence quadriennale, qui a eu lieu en avril, ...
Summertime Changes For IP Policymakers In Geneva
Posted on August 04, 2008It's summertime, and that means many changing faces at the missions and the international organisations in Geneva. Read the latest on the comings and goings of some key IP policymakers. Please note: this article is password protected and only available for IP-Watch Subscribers...
ACTA: Negotiations Advance ?Behind The Curtain?; Many Concerns
Posted on August 02, 2008By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Representatives of industry and the public as well as intellectual property law experts are puzzled by the ongoing secrecy under which negotiations on the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) are being held...
Panel Shows Flaws In Global IP Enforcement Push, Especially For Developing Countries
Posted on July 31, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Intellectual property is the last real comparative advantage that rich countries have, said a panellist at a recent International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) joint event...
US: We Will Not Give Up Oversight Of Internet Domain Name Root Zone
Posted on July 31, 2008By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch The Bush administration has no intention of giving up United States oversight role of the management of the central root zone of the internet domain name system (DNS), the essential database storing information on how to reach domain names on the global internet...
Abrupt End To Ministerial Leaves Questions On Future Of IP Issues At WTO
Posted on July 31, 2008By William New The World Trade Organization Doha Round is over, and bitterly, at least for now, but negotiators left town with the general consensus that hard-earned work to date should not be lost and that there might be resumption of talks sometime in the future...
Nokia-Qualcomm Settlement Boosts Sharing, Ends Costly Patent War
Posted on July 31, 2008By Tatum Anderson for Intellectual Property Watch Nokia and Qualcomm, the two mobile phone equipment manufacturers engaged in a costly patent war that spanned three years and three continents settled their differences last week. However, questions still remain over the principles they fought about in courts around the world...
Collapse Of WTO Talks Washes Away Hope For TRIPS Changes
Posted on July 29, 2008By William New Seven-year negotiations at the World Trade Organization collapsed today after an intensive nine-day ministerial snagged on an agricultural issue. And with the end of the Doha Round of trade negotiations for the foreseeable future go the hopes of some members of amending global trade rules on intellectual property ...
TRIPS Issues Still Possible At WTO, If Overall Talks Unlock
Posted on July 29, 2008By William New Intellectual property issues are progressing slowly and quietly on the sidelines of the World Trade Organization ministerial as prospects for an agreement on broader issues remain tense and uncertain, according to sources. Ways to proceed on IP issues continue to be contemplated, with a key focus on the ...
First Arab Satellite Channel On IP Rights Launched In Egypt
Posted on July 29, 2008By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch CAIRO - In a bid to promote awareness of intellectual property rights issues and provide information about IP in the Arab world, the first dedicated IP Arab satellite channel has been launched. Based in Smart Village in Cairo with offices in most major cities of ...
UK Content, ISP Industries Agree To Partner Against Digital Piracy
Posted on July 28, 2008By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch A groundbreaking agreement between the UK government, major internet service providers (ISPs) and the music and film industries could signal that efforts to engage ISPs in fighting digital copyright piracy are gaining momentum...
Prospects Dim For TRIPS Issues At WTO Ministerial; October Deadline Possible
Posted on July 27, 2008By William New The prospect for an agreement to negotiate on three intellectual property issues at the World Trade Organization have dimmed considerably, with no further meetings with delegations likely on Sunday, according to officials. A possible proposal is circulating to move the deadline on IP issues to October...
Mandelson Keeps TRIPS Issues Critical As Lamy Hints At Need To Move On
Posted on July 26, 2008By William New The European Union on Saturday restated the necessity of including three intellectual property issues in any outcome of the World Trade Organization ministerial negotiations, even as the WTO director general signalled a need to prevent the IP issues from upsetting other achievements...
WTO Ministerial TRIPS Chair Floats ?Elements? As Main Issues Start To Move
Posted on July 25, 2008[Update: Ministers reached a tentative deal Friday night on some aspects of agriculture and NAMA, and will take up services on Saturday, according to ministers.] By William New Word went out Friday evening that there may have been some progress on the main issues under negotiation at this week?s World Trade Organization ...
Inside Views: Patent Insurance Scheme: Financial Resource For WHO Global IP Strategy?
Posted on July 25, 2008By Itaru Nitta, Green Intellectual Property Project, Geneva, Switzerland In its Assembly 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property to squarely steer the global R&D [research and development] and IP policy toward maladies afflicting impoverished nations...
US Patent Office Conducts Tour On Industrial Design Protection
Posted on July 24, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch The United States Patent and Trademark Office is meeting with industry groups and intellectual property experts to determine how to strike just the right balance on industrial design protection in the United States...
Chair: Compromise On TRIPS Issues Still Possible, If Broader WTO Talks Can Move
Posted on July 24, 2008By Kaitlin Mara and William New Compromise on intellectual property issues at this week?s World Trade Organization ministerial meeting has been hard to find, but the facilitator of the IP talks said Thursday night that the possibility remains if the broader talks can proceed...
IP Experts Sign Declaration Seeking Balanced Copyright Three-Step Test
Posted on July 24, 2008By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Harmonisation of copyright regulation in recent years has overly "focussed on securing rightsholders' ability to benefit from new modes of exploitation and business models" and has primarily served "the interests of copyright exporting countries...
L?Europe pourrait accélérer les négociations de l?ACAC
Posted on July 24, 2008Monika Ermert pour Intellectual Property Watch Contrairement à ce que les négociateurs européens avaient affirmé au sujet du temps nécessaire pour peaufiner l?Accord commercial anti-contrefaçon (ACAC), les pays semblent à présent prêts à accélérer les négociations...
UNCTAD IP Activities Rise With Renewed Mandate; Greater Collaboration
Posted on July 24, 2008By Catherine Saez Intellectual property-related issues appear to be a clear policy focus of the United Nations Conference On Trade and Development (UNCTAD) as an IP mandate was reconfirmed by the 12th quadrennial UNCTAD confer