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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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First Result Of Benefit-Sharing Mechanism For FAO Treaty; Push For Farmers? Rights

Posted on June 22, 2009
Members of a global treaty on plant genetic resources this month announced 11 new projects on biodiversity conservation in research institutions, and financed by a benefit-sharing fund whose sustainability is still in doubt. The group separately acted to better protect farmers? rights at the national level.

WCO Considers New ?Dialogue Mechanism? On Counterfeiting, Explicit Focus On Public Health

Posted on June 20, 2009
The World Customs Organization this week will try to reach agreement on a softened replacement group against counterfeiting and piracy that may defuse concerns of overreaching by customs officials. It also will consider a proposal to add an explicit focus on public health and safety to its enforcement activities.

Thailand Seeks To Toughen IP Laws to Punish Buyers Of Pirated Or Fake Goods

Posted on June 19, 2009
BANGKOK - Thailand plans to toughen its intellectual property protection law to punish, for the first time, buyers of products that breach copyright and trademark laws, aiming primarily at pirated music and movies and fake brand-name goods, a senior Thai official said Thursday.

Santa Cruz To Head Chilean IP Office; Kappos Named USPTO Director

Posted on June 19, 2009
A well-liked and influential IP policymaker in Geneva will head Chile?s national IP office, a US lawyer responsible for perhaps the world?s biggest industry patent portfolio will head the US IP office, and a fixture in the Geneva international trade negotiating and lobbying community is heading home to Canada.

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WIPO Works Out Plans For Staff Separations, Financial Disclosure

Posted on June 19, 2009
After months of private consultations, it was no surprise that the World Intellectual Property Organization Coordination Committee ? the 83-member executive body ? easily approved the director general?s new cabinet this week, albeit with a few notes for the future...

Germany Builds Infrastructure To Block The Internet

Posted on June 19, 2009
The German Parliament on Thursday evening passed legislation that obliges internet service providers (ISPs) to filter websites allegedly containing child abuse material, by a vote of 389 to 146. The vote followed fierce debate about the secret filtering list to be put together by the German Federal Police and transmitted to ISPs once a day with only occasional checks by a five-member monitoring body...

Internet Rallies Behind Iranian Protesters

Posted on June 19, 2009
As a media crackdown in Iran suppressed major news outlets, and even, reportedly, major social networking sites such as Facebook, social media site Twitter has become critical in providing up-to-the-second news as to what is happening on the ground in Iran...

Nations Work To Make IP Systems Combat Climate Change

Posted on June 18, 2009
With less than a year to complete a new global plan to combat climate change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is under pressure to be able to move to a decision at the end of the year. But it is in the longer-term action plans that intellectual property issues are featuring most prominently, as parties to the UNFCCC aim to satisfy the need for growth in poor countries, and to mitigate effects of growth on the environment - a move that will require effective technology transfer.

Malgr� les obstacles, les pressions de la France au niveau national visant � sanctionner le piratage sur Internet font des �mules

Posted on June 18, 2009
WASHINGTON ? Le 9 juin, au cours d?une conf�rence, la ministre fran�aise de la Culture et de la Communication, Christine Albanel, a d�fini la loi Cr�ation et Internet comme �tant � � la fois ambitieuse et r�aliste �. Selon elle, ceux qui pensent qu?Internet est une zone de non-droit � se trompent d?�poque �...

Financial Crisis Provides Opportunity, Pitfalls For Green Innovation

Posted on June 18, 2009
LAUSANNE - One should not waste a good crisis, goes the common wisdom - a piece of advice policymakers might use to spur the world closer to a green, knowledge-based economy, said a panel at the Ecole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne Wednesday. The current financial crisis and an awakening recognition of the ecological crisis have presented a unique opportunity for innovation - and particularly green innovation - to take a lead role in driving future economies.

EFF: Keeping Patents Off Public Domain, Opening ACTA

Posted on June 18, 2009
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it will revoke an illegitimate patent on internet subdomains that was seen as potentially threatening to the public domain. The US patent, held by a company called Hoshiko, claimed to cover the method of automatically assigning internet subdomains, like “action...

Media Companies Offer UK Unlimited Music … Or Else!

Posted on June 17, 2009
Media giants Virgin Media and Universal Music have teamed up to create the world’s first unlimited digital download service that comes with the blessing of content owners - though only for residents of the United Kingdom. Britons using Virgin Media’s broadband to connect to the internet will soon be able to download or stream any artist [...

HADOPI Copyright Law To Get New Set Of Teeth With Additional Law

Posted on June 16, 2009
The Sarkozy government will implement a law aimed at promoting legal online downloading in the coming months despite being prevented from cutting off the internet access of alleged three-time offenders, according to official sources. Meanwhile, the government has already begun preparing a new law that would restore penalties decided by a judge rather than by the newly created HADOPI commission.

UN Special Rapporteur: IP In Health Helping Those With Most Means, Less Need

Posted on June 16, 2009
Nearly two billion people lack access to the medical care they need, and in the developing world those who do manage to have access are overwhelmingly paying out-of-pocket, often triggering a fall into poverty. The monopoly-making power of patents to drive the cost of medicines beyond affordability is a significant contributor to this disturbing trend, says a report of the United Nations rapporteur on the right to health presented at last week?s Human Rights Council.

OECD Report: ?Creative Destruction,? Innovation Focus Needed In Economic Crisis

Posted on June 16, 2009
As members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) prepare to meet for their annual ministerial meeting in Paris next week, the organisation has issued a report calling for a strategic, innovation-driven response to the economic crisis.

Talks On Traditional Knowledge And Access, Benefit-Sharing

Posted on June 16, 2009
An expert body on traditional knowledge as it relates to an access and benefit-sharing regime on genetic resources began discussion Tuesday in India. They will examine the way in which proposed aspects of the regime relate to indigenous communities and the way in which they manage and protect their knowledge...

WIPO Appoints New Top Officials, Readies Policies On Conflicts Of Interest, Staff Cuts

Posted on June 15, 2009
The member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization?s executive body on Monday approved a set of seven most senior officials at the organisation to join the director general late this year. Monday's Coordination Committee meeting also will address new policies on financial disclosure and conflicts of interest among top WIPO officials, and voluntary staff departures in the face of smaller budgets.

Turning Points Ahead For WTO Geographical Indications, Biodiversity?

Posted on June 12, 2009
The coming months could spell changes in the long-running World Trade Organization talks on creating a register for wines and spirits geographical indications and amending WTO rules to better protect biodiversity rights. Developed countries that have been blocking progress on the issues for years may be pushed at a political level, according to some sources.

EU Says GI Products Would Benefit Asian Poor In Renewing IP Assistance

Posted on June 12, 2009
BANGKOK - The European Union told Asian countries Thursday that protecting geographical indications of their products would benefit their poor, rural people as the EU is offering to renew its intellectual property cooperation with regional countries with GI enforcement as a greater element.

Conseil de l?Europe : l?acc�s � l?internet est un droit fondamental

Posted on June 12, 2009
L?argument souvent utilis� par les l�gislateurs contre la communication Internet qui veut que ce qui est valable dans l?univers physique l?est aussi en ligne a �t� utilis� par le Conseil de l?Europe dans une nouvelle r�solution concernant les droits fondamentaux en ligne.

USTR Revives Focus On ACTA; Talks Set For July

Posted on June 12, 2009
The Office of the United States Trade Representative on Friday said it had reviewed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) under negotiation and has decided to move ahead on the treaty. Negotiating countries will meet in Morocco in July, and the targeted completion is still 2010.

Trademark Worry Over Facebook Usernames

Posted on June 12, 2009
Facebook users starting Saturday will get the chance to add a nickname of their choice to the web address of their profiles. These new usernames, which will make Facebook addresses easier to find and easier to remember, are being assigned on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 12:01 am Eastern Daylight Time on 13 June...

GAVI, Gates Deploy Industry-Favoured Incentive For Vaccines To Poor Countries

Posted on June 12, 2009
Major public health funders have alighted upon an industry-favoured approach of guaranteeing certain prices to industry to make vaccines available to least-developed country markets.

Panel: EU Accord Threatens India; World Customs Body Scales Back IP Enforcement

Posted on June 11, 2009
BRUSSELS - India?s status as a top world supplier of generic medicines could be threatened by a free trade agreement its government is negotiating with the European Union, a new study has concluded. Separately, the World Customs Organization has abandoned its intellectual property rights enforcement group, replacing it with a non-policymaking information committee.

French Revolution Meets Information Revolution In Setback For HADOPI Law

Posted on June 11, 2009
The French Constitutional Council on Wednesday decided that two articles of a newly passed law creating a graduated punishment mechanism for alleged copyright infringement on the internet did not comply with the French Constitution. The government has options to proceed with changes reflecting the setback to the so-called HADOPI law.

Copyright Holders Acknowledge Losing Battle For Public Consciousness At World Copyright Summit

Posted on June 11, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC - Copyright holders on Wednesday acknowledged they have done a poor job of countering the "anti-copyright" lobby and demonstrating the creative community's value to the world.

Heated Debates Over US-Free Internet

Posted on June 10, 2009
Warnings about a possible split of the single root zone underlying the global internet have been made by internet governance experts outside the United States following a hearing of the US congressional Subcommittee on Communication Technologies and the Internet on the future of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the internet’s technical [...

June Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available

Posted on June 09, 2009
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 June edition is now available for subscribers.

Generic Drug Delay Called ?Systemic? Problem At TRIPS Council

Posted on June 09, 2009
Seizures of legal generic drugs was the focus of heated discussion Monday at the World Trade Organization Council on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), raising questions about the implementation of enforcement measures in the European Union.

French Minister Says HADOPI Law A 21st Century Reality

Posted on June 09, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC - France's "three strikes" law is both "ambitious" and "realistic," French culture and communication minister Christine Albanel told a conference Tuesday, and anyone who thinks the internet can be a lawless arena where anything goes is "in the wrong century...

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