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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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WHO Report: Progress On Neglected Tropical Diseases

Posted on October 14, 2010
A new report released today by the World Health Organization found that 17 neglected tropical diseases can be controlled. If strategies set out in the report are implemented widely, ?they can substantially reduce the disease burden, breaking a cycle of infection, disability and lost opportunities that keep people in poverty, WHO Director General Margaret Chan said in a press release...

WIPO Members Search For A Negotiating Agenda On Patent Law

Posted on October 14, 2010
Patents aren't what they used to be at the World Intellectual Property Organization. Discussions to come up with a work plan at the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) this week and in recent meetings point to the possibility of a sea change in thinking over what matters about intellectual property policy and law...

Sign Up For Email Alerts Of IP-Watch Burbles!

Posted on October 13, 2010
Now available for Intellectual Property Watch readers: Email alerts for the IP-Watch Burble microblog, our breaking news briefs. A free service available to all, just sign up for email alerts here if you don't already receive them. If you already receive IP-Watch email alerts, just scroll to the bottom of any email you receive (like this one) and click the link under "If you would like to modify the settings of your subscription," which takes you to your individualised settings...

Rights-Holders? Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Pact Could Have Broad Reach

Posted on October 12, 2010
The countries that own most of the world?s intellectual property rights have all but completed an agreement among themselves that raises the level of protection of those rights while appearing to reduce obligations placed on rights holders. Now they?ll need to find ways to apply it to the countries of the world seen as responsible for much of the infringing material...

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Peer-To-Patent Public Prior Art Search Expanded

Posted on October 12, 2010
The Peer to Patent programme, a United States patent community review platform, has been expanded and re-launched with a new interface. The service seeks to help patent examiners search for prior art with the help of the public. The Peer to Patent programme now can handle applications from multiple patent offices, according to a press [...

October Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available

Posted on October 12, 2010
The 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 at: http://www...

Inside Views: A Rights-Poor Protocol For Biodiversity Access & Benefit-Sharing

Posted on October 08, 2010
A leading indigenous negotiator for a UN protocol on biodiversity access and benefit sharing says the process will likely yield a highly diluted, rights-poor protocol and that Indigenous Peoples' negotiating leverage is slipping. Related Articles:Hopes Fading For Concluding Biodiversity Access And Benefit Sharing Negotiations? Biodiversity Negotiators Seek To Finalise Draft Access, Benefit-Sharing Regime Burdened With Brackets, Biodiversity ABS Protocol Needs Political Will To Survive

Tour� Re-Elected Head of ITU

Posted on October 07, 2010
Member states of the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) today re-elected Hamadoun Tour� of Mali as ITU Secretary-General of ITU for a second four-year term. Related Articles:ITU In A Converging World: Interview With ITU Strategist Alexander Ntoko ITU: ICT Regulation Can Be Economic Stimulus ITU-UNESCO Broadband Commission Aims At Global Internet Access

ACTA Text Will Be Released Today At 16:00

Posted on October 06, 2010
The latest text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will be released at 4 in the afternoon, Central European Time, Intellectual Property Watch has just learned. It will be released online at the websites of the negotiating trade ministries...

Latest ACTA Text Now Available

Posted on October 06, 2010
The latest draft text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has now been made public. Related Articles:Alleged New ACTA Draft Text Leaked ACTA Text Will Be Released Today At 16:00 ACTA: No More Negotiating Rounds Planned; Latest Text To Be Released

US Seeks Comments on Internet Access and Copyright

Posted on October 05, 2010
The Internet Policy Task Force of the United States Commerce Department today issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) seeking comment from any interested stakeholders - including rights holders, internet service providers, and consumers - on the "protection of copyrighted works online and the relationship between copyright law and innovation in the internet economy...

ACTA: No More Negotiating Rounds Planned; Latest Text To Be Released

Posted on October 04, 2010
The round of negotiations in Tokyo last week on the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) will be the last in the several-year long process to come to a final agreement, negotiators have said. The latest text - along with highlighted issue areas on which certain countries still have reservations - will be released before the end of the week, negotiators told Intellectual Property Watch...

An Eventful Week For IP Policymaking In The United States

Posted on October 01, 2010
The United States? search for ways to spark its job growth has led to a focus on intellectual property rights, and this week several significant developments boiled over. Related Articles:Year Ahead: Range Of IP Policy Issues May See Action In United States In 2010 Year Ahead: Five Key IP Cases To Watch In The United States In 2010 United States Sees Spate Of Intellectual Property Policy Activity

Study Shows Climate Change Innovation Concentrated In Few Nations

Posted on September 30, 2010
The adoption of 1997 landmark environmental agreement the Kyoto Protocol caused a surge in environmental innovation, but the countries which are innovating and the licensees of this technology are limited, finds a newly released study making use of patent data to track where technological responses to climate change are coming from as well as the licensing practices of the technology owners...

First Patent Holder Grants Licences To UNITAID

Posted on September 30, 2010
The United States National Institutes of Health has become the first patent holder to join the newly created Medicines Patent Pool, a project of drug purchasing mechanism UNITAID. Public health organisations hailed the move as key step in the right direction but said there is still much work to do...

WIPO Assembly Considers Paths For Possible New Treaties

Posted on September 30, 2010
Member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization this week set in motion negotiations that could lead to international treaties or other instruments on exceptions and limitations to copyright, the protection of traditional knowledge and folklore, and harmonisation of industrial design laws...

Chan Denies Pharma Influence As WHO Review Proceeds

Posted on September 28, 2010
"Never did I see a shred of evidence that financial profits for industry, as opposed to epidemiological and virological data, influenced WHO decisions" on a recent influenza pandemic, World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan said today in opening remarks to the International Health Regulations Review Committee...

Internet Access And Human Rights Highlighted Alongside UN Human Rights Council

Posted on September 28, 2010
Can the digital environment be used in a way that promotes real human rights? A group of activists speaking yesterday alongside the ongoing UN Human Rights Council believes that it can, and provided several examples of work they are doing to make that happen...

Burdened With Brackets, Biodiversity ABS Protocol Needs Political Will To Survive

Posted on September 28, 2010
Substantive progress eluded the negotiators of a draft protocol on biodiversity access and benefit sharing last week in Montreal, according to participating sources. The third attempt at finding consensus on key aspects of the text was unsuccessful and negotiations will carry on at the major United Nations meeting on biodiversity next month in Japan...

Echoes Of Global Patent Wars At WIPO Annual General Assembly

Posted on September 27, 2010
Echoes of the struggles and advances in patent policy around the world were heard this week in the annual meeting of the member governments of the UN World Intellectual Property Organization. At stake is no less than the future of societies everywhere...

The Realities Of Traditional Knowledge And Patents

Posted on September 27, 2010
India?s laws on traditional knowledge yield interesting positive and negative results, writes Mohan Dewan. Related Articles:WIPO Traditional Knowledge Committee Opens With Hope For Text-Based Talks Perpetual Protection Of Traditional Knowledge ?Not On Table? At WIPO WIPO Traditional Knowledge Negotiators Dodging Roadblocks

ACTA Negotiators Still Aiming At Agreement By Year?s End

Posted on September 25, 2010
Countries negotiating a semi-secret trade agreement against piracy and counterfeiting this week in Tokyo are still aiming to reach agreement by the end of this year, a negotiator told Intellectual Property Watch today. The negotiator also did not reject outright the notion that patents might still be included in the draft treaty text, instead saying it is still a matter for discussion...

Ambassadors Meet Outside WTO To Discuss TRIPS Negotiations

Posted on September 24, 2010
More than a dozen ambassadors to the World Trade Organization met today at the New Zealand mission in Geneva to discuss the state of negotiations related to intellectual property rights and trade. Related Articles:Work Plan For WTO Negotiations Includes Potentially Critical IP Issues WTO TRIPS Council Considers Workshop On Public Health Amendment Health Waiver, IP Enforcement Discussed At Lively WTO TRIPS Council Meeting

Civil Society Fights For Participation As ACTA Counter To WIPO Rises

Posted on September 24, 2010
A new rival to the World Intellectual Property Organization is being created away from the tempering effect of public scrutiny, which could result in limits on the free movement of knowledge or products subject to IP rights, a civil society representative said yesterday...

USPTO Director David Kappos On Need For IP Cooperation

Posted on September 23, 2010
Patent offices around the world must work together to combat the inefficiencies in patent processing that threaten to stifle innovation and as a result slow needed growth of the global economy, David Kappos, director of the US Patent and Trademark Office said today...

Coherence Needed To Avoid Multilateral Legal Swamp, WTO Told

Posted on September 22, 2010
The multilateral system with its different agencies dealing with specific areas is sometimes seen as incoherent in global negotiations and norm-setting as there are overlaps in competency, definition and scope, according to speakers at a side event to the recent World Trade Organization Public Forum...

Spanish Collecting Society Targets Group Proposing Alternative Royalty System

Posted on September 22, 2010
A Spanish group lobbying for alternative ways to protect and promote creative production has been asked to cease activity or face a lawsuit for damages, unfair competition and infringement by the Spanish collecting society SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores), according to the group...

Special Report: Global Internet Governance Work At A Turning Point

Posted on September 22, 2010
Five years after the tale began in Athens, the United Nations Internet Governance Forum returned to Europe last week to ask itself what has been achieved. The answer was encouraging enough to prompt a range of internet stakeholders to suggest continuation of the group, this time with a greater focus on concrete outcomes...

Musician Stevie Wonder Just Calls On WIPO To Improve Books Access

Posted on September 20, 2010
Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter and UN Messenger of Peace Stevie Wonder today called on the governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization to create a system for copyright law to assist those with disabilities in getting access to education and reading materials...

IP ?Authorities? Meet To Discuss IP Infrastructure, Collaboration

Posted on September 19, 2010
The second global symposium of intellectual property authorities met last week at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva to discuss global IP infrastructure and collaboration between IP offices, particularly in ways that might bring greater benefit to small offices...

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