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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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WTO Ends Ministerial With No Agreements, Modest Treatment Of IP

Posted on December 02, 2009
The World Trade Organization today wrapped up its first ministerial meeting in four years with no decisions or breakthroughs (as expected) but an informal agreement to consider by March whether members can complete the longstanding round of negotiations in 2010...

New Classification Scheme For Clean Energy Patents To Facilitate Technology Transfer

Posted on December 02, 2009
Technology transfer is essential to the mitigation of climate change but empirical data on the subject is scarce, according to panellists at a parallel event to the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting. An initiative has been launched by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) to identify potential barriers to the transfer of clean technologies...

Lisbon Treaty Updates EU; New Commissioners Named

Posted on December 01, 2009
On 1 December, the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force, bringing a variety of changes across the European Union. Also this week, a new administrative cabinet has been named to represent the European Commission for the next five years, along with some changes in the structure of the EU administrative body.

Pharmaceutical Patents In The Pool

Posted on December 01, 2009
Several non-governmental organisations used the World Aids Day to promote the patent pool initiative underway at UNITAID that is expected by proponents to enhance access to second line HIV/AIDS drugs. Action Against AIDS, a German NGO, released thousands of balloons in capsule form over Berlin while handing over 28,000 to representatives of Abbott, Bristol-Meyer-Squibb and [...

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ICC IP Guidelines Issued At Anti-Piracy Gala

Posted on December 01, 2009
The International Chamber of Commerce released its “Intellectual Property Guidelines for Business” in Spanish and Portuguese during a special session at the 1-3 December Fifth Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy in Cancun, Mexico...

Outdated Multilateral Trade System Challenged By Climate Change, Regionalisation, Speakers Say

Posted on December 01, 2009
Climate change measures might impact competitiveness and the multilateral trade system in its current form might not be equipped to address the issue, according to speakers at a parallel event to the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting today...

WTO Ministers Say Complete Doha Round Or Suffer Irrelevance

Posted on November 30, 2009
World Trade Organization members today called for a completion of the Doha Development Round of trade liberalisation talks in 2010, tying its success to the relevance of the organisation as a whole, at the opening plenary session of this week?s WTO ministerial...

Multilateral Trading System Under Scrutiny At WTO Ministerial

Posted on November 30, 2009
The World Trade Organization?s first full ministerial in four years is not a negotiating forum. Rather, it is bringing together some 150 trade ministers for some soul-searching on the state of the multilateral system and the work of the WTO. Measuring the event?s success (or failure, as in some past ministerials) will be difficult, but new directions may be infused into the 15-year-old organisation and a high-level political statement may be used to drive trade negotiations forward in the coming year.

Global Oversight For ICANN; US Role In Core Infrastructure Unchanged

Posted on October 01, 2009
A 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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Posted on September 30, 2009
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Role Of WIPO On Traditional Knowledge In Question

Posted on September 30, 2009
Failure 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, 2009
When 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, 2009
With 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 ...

Assembl�es de l’OMPI : le sort des savoirs traditionnels en jeu

Posted on September 28, 2009
Le probl�me, selon certains participants, est que ces ressources ont �t� allou�es � des projets qui n'ont pas encore �t� approuv�s. Le Comit� du d�veloppement et de la propri�t� intellectuelle (CDIP) s?est r�uni en novembre, puis en Avril, mais la prochaine r�union budg�taire n?aura pas lieu avant juillet, ce qui a amen� de nombreux pays en d�veloppement � se demander comment des projets approuv�s en novembre pouvaient �tre mis en ?uvre rapidement alors m�me qu?ils ne disposent pas des ressources budg�taires n�cessaires.

Bangkok Climate Change Meeting Aims For Draft Deal For Copenhagen

Posted on September 28, 2009
BANGKOK ? 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 decisi�n clave en las Asambleas de la OMPI

Posted on September 25, 2009
La Organizaci�n Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI) debe tener la capacidad de fijar normas para la innovaci�n, desde los avances de la tecnolog�a m�s recientes hasta los sistemas de conocimientos tradicionales, si desea conservar su reconocimiento en la formulaci�n de pol�ticas, expres� 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, 2009
How 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
As 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
Participants 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, 2009
The 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, 2009
America?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, 2009
The 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, 2009
Javier 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, 2009
A 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, 2009
Improved 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, 2009
World 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, 2009
Several 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.

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