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Intellectual Property Watch

Reports on the interests and behind-the-scenes dynamics that influence the design and implementation of international intellectual property policies.
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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 09:41:17

FSFE Offers Cutting-Edge Analogue Printer

Posted on April 01, 2011
In yet another sign that this day is full of surprises, the Free Software Foundation Europe has announced that it is offering a special cutting-edge "analogue printer" device, which can print any colour, 3D, underwater, and all file formats. Related Articles:Study Of Public Domain, Copyright At WIPO Offers Recommendations UN Rapporteur On Food Offers Long-Term Answer To Food Crisis: Agroecology Special Report: The Potential Consequences of Google’s Electronic Book Initiative

A Special Day: WIPO?s Vision Gets A Little Fuzzy

Posted on April 01, 2011
In a surprise and fully uncorroborated development, it appears that World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis Gurry has been named a new contributor to an illustrious IP blog. The announcement came at the same time as news that WIPO will likely embark on wishing for an annual crackdown list of global IP blogs deemed to be inadequately living up to the highest levels of intellectual property protection and decorum...

WIPO Says Cybersquatting Filings Sharply Up, Watches ICANN?s Domain Name Expansion

Posted on March 31, 2011
Filing complaints about cybersquatting, which the World Intellectual Property Organization defines as the ?abusive registration of trademarks as domain names,? is on an upward trend, WIPO Director General Francis Gurry said today. Meanwhile, WIPO also launched a review of its dispute panellists...

WHO Experts To Analyse R&D Financing, Focus On Poor Country Diseases

Posted on March 31, 2011
The World Health Organization expert working group tasked with studying proposals on financing and coordinating research and development for diseases that disproportionately affect developing countries will meet next week. The working group?s path is not easy as it follows a predecessor group that sustained allegations of conflict of interest and lack of transparency...

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WIPO Discusses Industrial Design Treaty, Trademark Protection On Internet

Posted on March 30, 2011
World Intellectual Property Organization members congregated this week to advance work on a potential treaty on industrial designs, and to look into trademark protection against infringement on the internet, including through social media. But they ended early after nominal progress in these promising new areas for the United Nations agency...

FAO Seed Treaty Carries Hope, Addressing Country Contributions, Farmers Concerns

Posted on March 30, 2011
Funding mechanisms and farmers? rights were among the issues that captured the attention of member countries of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture during the biannual meeting of its Governing Body. Related Articles:International Seed Treaty Hears Concerns Of Corporate Concentration, DNA Patenting New Draft Biodiversity Treaty Text Shows Much Work Remains; Co-Chairs Hopeful Biodiversity Benefit-Sharing Treaty Negotiators Tackle New Text As Clock Ticks

US Farmers Sue Monsanto Over GMO Patents, Demand Right To Conventional Crops

Posted on March 30, 2011
The Public Patent Foundation filed suit yesterday against Monsanto?s patents on genetically modified seeds with farmers asking to be protected against the biotechnology giant?s potential lawsuits in case of accidental contamination from plants grown with its seeds...

MPAA Head Criticises China, ‘Rogue’ Websites

Posted on March 29, 2011
A week into his new job as CEO and Chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), former Senator Chris Dodd gave his "inaugural" speech salted with jabs at China and websites that carry movie content without authorisation of the rights holders...

Registration Still Open For WHO Sessions On R&D Financing

Posted on March 29, 2011
The expert group at the World Health Organization looking for ideas to fund research into diseases disproportionately affecting poor populations will open up its first meeting next week to public input. Participants can register for the open sessions until Monday, 4 April at noon...

Intellectual Property Creates Space For Competition In Innovation, WIPO Head Says

Posted on March 29, 2011
Intellectual property is an available space in which any country can compete, but certain policies are helpful, the head of the World Intellectual Property Organization said today. And he described a global geographic shift in innovation away from Europe and the United States...

Committee Nears Final Review Of WHO Performance On H1N1 Pandemic

Posted on March 29, 2011
The committee reviewing the World Health Organization?s response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and whether the international organisation was unduly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry in its response is working this week to formulate its final report...

US, China Meet On Biotech Patenting

Posted on March 28, 2011
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Chinese State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO), and the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) hosted a workshop on biotechnology in Beijing today. Related Articles:Biotech Convention Pays Homage To IP, Pledges To Increase Access To Medicine US, China Weaving Closer Trade and IP Cooperation; Focus On Innovation As WTO Reviews China, EU, US Criticise Its Policy On Innovation, IP Rights

Yale Conference Revealed Secrets Of Online Advertising

Posted on March 28, 2011
A conference of the Yale Law School Information Society Project held 25-26 March exposed the underlying thinking of major advertising players like Google, the Wall Street Journal and others. You may be surprised what they revealed about the use of your personal data, but then again, you may be more empowered than you thought to control your relationship to pervasive big advertising, which, it appears, is here to stay...

Experts Meet To Weigh Health And Environment Scientific Innovations

Posted on March 28, 2011
Scientific advances in life sciences, in particular health, are being evaluated by experts this week in Lyon, France, with the stated hope of bringing new answers to global health challenges, such as funding, costs, and innovation. Related Articles:Health Initiative Proposes Rewarding Innovation On Impact Results; Some See Hurdles NGOs, Industry Weigh Alternatives For R&D Financing, Counterfeiting At WHO Geneva Health Forum Addresses Biotech, Trade, Pandemic Flu

Call Issued For UN Intervention In Trans-Pacific Regional Trade Pact

Posted on March 28, 2011
As officials gather this week to continue negotiations for a trade agreement among countries bordering the Pacific Ocean, a multi-country set of nongovernmental organisations and academics urged a United Nations-appointed official to intervene, on grounds that the trade deal will severely impact the public health of poor populations in those countries...

India, WIPO Connect On Traditional Knowledge Protection, With Or Without Patents

Posted on March 28, 2011
The World Intellectual Property Organization went to India last week to highlight the country?s success in creating a digital library of Indian traditional knowledge, which it uses to prevent illegitimate patenting of its resources. But whether WIPO found a way to fit the Indian project into the UN agency?s mission to protect and promote intellectual property rights was unclear...

ICANN Suggests Moving Internet From US Control

Posted on March 27, 2011
Comments on the future of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) - which makes the underlying changes to the internet - are slowly trickling in at the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), with five days to go to the end of a consultation period...

Google, EPO Partner On Translations

Posted on March 27, 2011
Google and the European Patent Office have signed a long-term agreement to collaborate on machine translation of patents, according to the EPO. Related Articles:EPO, EU Presidencies Shift; Translation Plan Proposed Google, Authors, Will Need To Rethink Digital Book Settlement Comparative Analysis Shows US Patent Office Scores Poorly On Patent Quality

Pharma Industry Seeks To Bring A Fresh Face To Public Health Policy

Posted on March 23, 2011
The research-based pharmaceutical industry is working to bring a fresh face to the international public health policy arena in Geneva, most recently through a new initiative on technology transfer. Working through the industry?s Geneva-based trade association, the effort to be seen in a more positive light comes after years of doubts about the transparency of its involvement in these issues and could change the tenor of international negotiations...

Google, Authors, Will Need To Rethink Digital Book Settlement

Posted on March 23, 2011
Google?s efforts to resolve questions of copyright infringement in its digital library project did not yield the hoped-for result as a district court judge yesterday rejected the agreement. But the judge left open the possibility that the parties could come back again with revisions...

Cox Is New Staff Attorney At KEI

Posted on March 22, 2011
Knowledge Ecology International, an influential Washington, DC-based non-governmental group working on public health and knowledge access issues, has added a new staff attorney. Related Articles:US Attorney General In China Talks Tough, Blurs Line, On IP People: New Lead For US Global IP Policy; KEI Lawyer To MSF; Copyright Kings In Washington Law Firms Making Changes To IP Staff

Briefs Filed In Supreme Court Case On Lowering Patent Validity Test

Posted on March 21, 2011
A list of briefs were filed Friday in support of maintaining the high standard in the United States for questioning the validity of patent. The decision of the Supreme Court expected in the coming months could have a major impact on patent law. Related Articles:US Supreme Court Expected To Weaken Patent Validity In Bilski Decision, US Supreme Court Adopts Tough But Vague Test for Business Method Patents US Court Rulings May End Plague of False Patent Marking Suits

Microsoft Asserts Patents In E-Readers, Tablets

Posted on March 21, 2011
US software-maker Microsoft today filed lawsuits for patent infringement against bookseller Barnes & Noble and its makers of Android-based electronic book reader and tablet devices. Related Articles:Microsoft General Counsel On Pricing For The Poor, Cloud Computing US Economist: US Financial Patents Litigation-Prone; Low Quality Makes Them Easy Targets In Bilski Decision, US Supreme Court Adopts Tough But Vague Test for Business Method Patents

New Head of European Pharmaceutical Industry Group

Posted on March 18, 2011
A top European pharmaceutical industry association has named a new director general, coming from Sweden. Related Articles:Change At Top Of European Music Industry Group Parliament Approves European Directive Against Falsified Medicines Pharma Industry To Publish Clinical Trial Results

Tech Industry Blasts Obama Administration, Says Legitimate Anti-Counterfeiting Efforts Being ?Hijacked?

Posted on March 17, 2011
Legitimate efforts in the United States to address counterfeiting problems have been ?hijacked? to benefit rights holders who should protect their own interests and change their business models, the Computer & Communications Industry Association has said...

US Court Rulings May End Plague of False Patent Marking Suits

Posted on March 17, 2011
Companies doing business in the United States have, for the past 15 months, found themselves in the cross-hairs. Bayer, Nike, L?Oreal, Sony, Wal-Mart, Novo Nordisk and hundreds of other firms have been sued for making or selling products displaying incorrect or expired patent numbers...

US IP Enforcement Ambitions In Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement Stir Reactions

Posted on March 16, 2011
An alleged official document leaked last week showed that the United States is taking the lead in escalating intellectual property rights enforcement in negotiations for a regional trade agreement among countries bordering the Pacific Ocean. But there may be some concern about IP protection going beyond existing international trade obligations...

White House Issues Proposals For IP Legislation

Posted on March 15, 2011
The Obama administration today issued a series of recommended legislative changes to further beef up domestic intellectual property rights protection, including boosting criminal punishment of pharmaceutical counterfeiters and those engaged in "economic espionage," increasing wiretapping, making infringing online streaming a felony, and giving more powers to customs officials...

WHO Opens Expert R&D Financing Group To Public Scrutiny

Posted on March 15, 2011
The 5-7 April meeting of the Consultative Expert Working Group on research and development: financing and coordination (CEWG) will partly be open to the public to enhance transparency, the World Health Organization said today. The expert group is part of the WHO global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property [...

UN Agencies Encourage Use Of Measures To Lower HIV Medicines Costs

Posted on March 15, 2011
Three United Nations agencies have joined together to explain to their member countries the little-understood but hard-won flexibilities to applying stiff international intellectual property rules. The focus of the new policy brief is on improving access to HIV treatment, and it offers a series of actions for governments and international organisations...

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