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WIPO Patent Committee Names Chair, Begins Focus On Global Status Report

Posted on June 23, 2008
By Kaitlin Mara The World Intellectual Property Organization committee charged with discussing international patent law kicked off its first formal meeting in three years today with the election of a Chilean chair and the start of work on a WIPO secretariat report on the global patent system that could form the ...

Some See Rise In Non-Traditional Trademarks; National Registries Not Yet

Posted on June 20, 2008
By Catherine Saez Trademark owners seeking to broaden their products? scope of protection are increasingly turning to registering non-traditional trademarks, according to the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)...

Virgin-BPI Alliance Against File-Sharers Seen As Not Synced With UK Policy

Posted on June 19, 2008
By Bruce Gain for Intellectual Property Watch The decision by Virgin recording company to send warning letters to alleged music pirates earlier this month appears out of sync with the approach internet service providers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe might take as a means to thwart piracy...

Technical Assistance A Key Point Of Discussion At TRIPS Council

Posted on June 19, 2008
By Kaitlin Mara Uganda this week submitted a plan for addressing its priority needs on trade and intellectual property to the World Trade Organization committee on IP, making the nation the first least-developed country to lay out a detailed strategy for implementing its obligations under WTO rules...

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L?autorisation pour la premi�re fois par l?�gypte d?un ma�s g�n�tiquement modifi� soul�ve des questions

Posted on June 19, 2008
Wagdy Sawahel pour Intellectual Property Watch Les r�actions de la communaut� scientifique �gyptienne sont mitig�es � la suite de l'autorisation par l'�gypte de cultiver et de commercialiser une vari�t� de ma�s r�sistante aux organismes nuisibles. Cette annonce marque la premi�re introduction l�gale de cultures g�n�tiquement modifi�es (GM) dans le monde arabe...

Egipto: la primera autorizaci�n de ma�z modificado gen�ticamente suscita interrogaciones

Posted on June 19, 2008
Por Wagdy Sawahel para Intellectual Property Watch El hecho de que Egipto haya autorizado recientemente el cultivo y la comercializaci�n de una variedad de ma�z resistente a plagas, lo que marc� la primera introducci�n legal de cultivos modificados gen�ticamente (MG) en el mundo �rabe, ha provocado reacciones contrapuestas por parte de ...

Standing Committee On The Law Of Patents To Reconvene After Two Year Hiatus

Posted on June 19, 2008
By Kaitlin Mara The World Intellectual Property Organization committee charged with coordinating relationships between national patent regimes will meet next week for the first time since an informal session in April 2006. It is the first formal convening since June 2005...

Les nouveaux rapports sur les questions de propri�t� intellectuelle en n�gociation � l?OMC r�v�lent le travail qu?il reste � accomplir

Posted on June 18, 2008
Par Kaitlin Mara Le 9 juin, l?Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) a publi� deux rapports sur l?�tat d?avancement des n�gociations relatives � la cr�ation d?un registre des indications g�ographiques (noms de produits associ�s � un lieu et � certaines caract�ristiques), � la possibilit� d'�tendre la protection renforc�e des indications g�ographiques � ...

Attorneys: New USPTO Patent Appeals Rules Will Raise Costs, Accomplish Little

Posted on June 18, 2008
By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch New United States Patent and Trademark Office procedural rules governing ex parte appeals of rejected patent applications before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) have met with resistance from some patent attorneys, who argue they are unfair, unnecessary and will hurt smaller ...

Nuevos informes sobre las negociaciones de propiedad intelectual en la OMC reflejan lo que falta por hacer

Posted on June 17, 2008
Por Kaitlin Mara La Organizaci�n Mundial del Comercio dio a conocer el lunes dos informes sobre la situaci�n de las negociaciones relativas a un sistema de registro para las indicaciones geogr�ficas (o IG, que se refieren a nombres de productos relacionados con lugares y caracter�sticas), as� como a la posible extensi�n ...

First Egyptian Approval Of Genetically Modified Corn Raises Questions

Posted on June 16, 2008
By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch With Egypt?s recent approval of the cultivation and commercialisation of a pest-resistant corn variety that marked the first legal introduction of genetically modified crops into the Arab world, the Egyptian scientific community is having mixed reactions...

New Stirrings On EU Patent Front In The Name Of Small Business

Posted on June 13, 2008
By David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch BRUSSELS - The ?fragmented? nature of Europe?s patent application system is harming small firms, a Brussels event has been told amid new efforts to harmonise it. Ever since the early 1970s, the European Community - now Union - has been discussing the possibility of introducing ...

Un nouveau r�le pour les fournisseurs d?acc�s Internet en mati�re de gestion de contenus en ligne

Posted on June 13, 2008
Par Dugie Standeford pour Intellectual Property Watch Les critiques � l?�gard des fournisseurs d?acc�s Internet (FAI) se font de plus en plus vives concernant leur r�le dans le piratage de musique en ligne. Les d�tenteurs de droits d?auteur et les soci�t�s de collecte des redevances font pression pour que soit adopt�e ...

WTO TRIPS Council To Meet Amid Broader Negotiation Backdrop

Posted on June 13, 2008
By Kaitlin Mara The World Trade Organization intellectual property committee will meet next week in the midst of a tense round of trade talks where efforts to move closer to consensus are continuing and the inclusion of some IP-related issues remains under debate...

Les sp�culations entourant l?ACAC vont bon train alors que la premi�re rencontre officielle vient de s?achever

Posted on June 13, 2008
Monika Ermert pour Intellectual Property Watch Les repr�sentants des gouvernements des pays d�velopp�s et de certains partenaires strat�giques issus des pays en d�veloppement se sont rencontr�s � la mission am�ricaine de Gen�ve les 3 et 4 juin derniers pour discuter d'un projet d'Accord commercial anti-contrefa�on (ACAC)...

Se sigue especulando sobre el ACTA a�n despu�s de la primera reuni�n oficial

Posted on June 13, 2008
Por Monika Ermert para Intellectual Property Watch Los d�as 3 y 4 de junio, los representantes de los gobiernos de los pa�ses desarrollados y de los pa�ses en desarrollo que son socios estrat�gicos se reunieron en la misi�n de los Estados Unidos en Ginebra a fin de debatir sobre las propuestas ...

Iran?s New Law On IP Protection Moves It Onto International Stage

Posted on June 13, 2008
By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch Iran has adopted a new law on the "registration of inventions, industrial designs and trademarks" in a bid to come to grips with the fast-paced changes in the world of trade and industry and developments in the area of intellectual property...

Inside Views: General Electric?s View On Green IP And Technology

Posted on June 12, 2008
General Electric's Ecomagination is an initiative launched in 2005 as a gathering/focal point for extant green technology as well as new research and development into clean technology. Ecomagination's products include technologies for cleaner energy, notably wind turbines for collecting wind energy, photovoltaic tiles for solar energy, and a series of ...

Music Performers In US Policy Fight For Payment From Broadcasters

Posted on June 12, 2008
By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC - Performance-rights groups and broadcasters went head-to-head Wednesday as the two sides testified before the United States Congress as to whether conventional radio broadcasters should pay performance musicians if the broadcasters play their music...

Funci�n incipiente de los proveedores de servicios de Internet en el contenido digital

Posted on June 12, 2008
Por Dugie Standeford para Intellectual Property Watch Los proveedores de servicios de Internet (ISP, por su sigla en ingl�s) reciben cada vez m�s ataques alrededor del mundo por la funci�n que cumplen sus redes en la pirater�a de m�sica en l�nea. Los titulares de derechos de autor y las sociedades de ...

Panelists: Balance Needed Between Antitrust Law, Patent Quality

Posted on June 11, 2008
By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC - A careful balance must be struck between ensuring the quality of the United States patent system - and the patents themselves - and antitrust law to ensure that new technologies and services can be brought to market, particularly in the ...

June Edition of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available

Posted on June 10, 2008
The 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 ...

Opponents Say Inclusion Of IP Issues Would Set Back WTO Talks

Posted on June 10, 2008
By Kaitlin Mara A small group of countries opposing the inclusion of intellectual property-related issues in World Trade Organization negotiations has issued their response to an earlier ?non-paper? that had called for IP issues to be integrated with the upcoming horizontal, or all-inclusive, negotiations at the WTO...

USPTO Patent Reexamination Process Is Flawed, Think Tank Says

Posted on June 10, 2008
By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch A United States Patent and Trademark Office procedure for third-party patent challenges is in turmoil and needs rethinking, an investigation by an independent think tank has found. Though few in number so far, inter partes reexaminations are increasingly used in conjunction with, rather than ...

La aprobaci�n brasile�a de la investigaci�n sobre c�lulas madre embrionarias podr�a fomentar la protecci�n por patente

Posted on June 09, 2008
Por Claudia Jurberg para Intellectual Property Watch R�O DE JANEIRO ? La semana pasada, el Tribunal Supremo de Brasil aprob�, por un margen estrecho de 6 a 5, la investigaci�n sobre c�lulas madre embrionarias, luego de analizar el tema durante tres d�as...

Reports On WTO IP Negotiations Released

Posted on June 09, 2008
By Kaitlin Mara The World Trade Organization on Monday released two reports on the state of play in negotiations on a register for geographical indications (GIs) - product names associated with places and characteristics - as well as the possible extension of the stricter protections for wines and spirits GIs to ...

Final Text Of World Health Assembly IP And Health Resolution, Strategy Online

Posted on June 06, 2008
The World Health Assembly "global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property," is now online. The document, WHA61.21, has been called "the most important document since [the] Doha" Declaration on IP and public health...

Speculation Persists On ACTA As First Official Meeting Concludes

Posted on June 05, 2008
By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Government representatives from developed nations and strategic developing nation partners met at the US mission in Geneva on 3-4 June to discuss proposals for an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)...

Latest Available Text Of The CBD Decision On Access And Benefit-Sharing

Posted on June 05, 2008
A decision on a way forward on a global access and benefit-sharing regime was reached at a meeting of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity from 19 to 30 May in Bonn. The main body of the document describes steps needed to reach international consensus on the content of ...

Brazil Approval Of Embryonic Stem Cell Research Could Boost Patenting

Posted on June 03, 2008
By Claudia Jurberg for Intellectual Property Watch RIO DE JANEIRO - After three days of consideration, the Brazilian Supreme Court last week approved by a narrow 6 to 5 margin research involving embryonic stem cells. The 29 May vote followed a protracted fight that consumed three years...

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