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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...
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