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Intellectual Property Watch 
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ACAC : négociations houleuses cette semaine à Genève - les États-Unis envisagent une ratification cette année
Posted on June 03, 2008Monika Ermert pour Intellectual Property Watch Selon un représentant de la Commission européenne, des négociations formelles sur l?Accord commercial anti-contrefaçon (ACAC) commencent cette semaine à Genève, et ce malgré la parution d?un document ayant filtré d?un bureau commercial américain et ayant suscité des critiques vis-à-vis du projet d?accord...
Conflictivas negociaciones sobre Acuerdo Comercial Antifalsificación (ACTA) esta semana en Ginebra; EE.UU. prevé firmar este año
Posted on June 03, 2008Por Monika Elmert para Intellectual Property Watch Se espera que las negociaciones formales sobre un Acuerdo Comercial Antifalsificación (ACTA, por sus siglas en inglés) comiencen esta semana en Ginebra, indicó un funcionario de la Comisión Europea, no obstante que un documento filtrado de la oficina comercial de los Estados Unidos ha ...
Existencia confusa del derecho de ?puesta a disposición? al público en la legislación de EE. UU.
Posted on June 02, 2008Por Steven Seidenberg para Intellectual Property Watch Estados Unidos no toma una decisión. Por un lado, ha firmado al menos nueve tratados internacionales que prevén explícitamente un nuevo derecho digital para los titulares de derechos de autor: el derecho exclusivo de poner electrónicamente sus obras a disposición del público...
Are you concerned about the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)?
Posted on June 02, 2008This week we ask:
Le droit américain peine à reconnaître le droit de mise à disposition du public
Posted on June 02, 2008Par Steven Seidenberg pour Intellectual Property Watch Les Etats-Unis ne parviennent pas à se décider. D?un côté, le pays a signé au moins neuf accords internationaux octroyant explicitement aux détenteurs de droits d'auteur le droit exclusif de mettre leurs travaux en ligne afin qu?ils puissent être consultés par le ...
US Presidential Campaign Officials Talk ?IP Tsars? and Network Neutrality
Posted on May 30, 2008By Kaitlin Mara The next United States president must make access to knowledge and technology policy a priority, participants at a conference on computers, freedom, and privacy protection last week told representatives of the leading presidential campaigns...
?Great Achievement? On IP Issues At Convention On Biological Diversity Summit
Posted on May 30, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Government negotiators meeting in Bonn this week reached breakthroughs on two intellectual property-related areas of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). At the highest level of the CBD membership, agreement was struck on a way forward on creating a regime to ensure equitable access to biodiversity ...
L?OMC adopte le document le plus important depuis Doha en matière de propriété intellectuelle et de santé publique
Posted on May 30, 2008William New Avec la stratégie mondiale adoptée samedi lors de l?Assemblée mondiale de la Santé en vue de combler le vide en matière de recherche sur les maladies qui sévissent dans les pays en développement, l?institution des Nations Unies s?inscrit directement dans l?élaboration de politiques relatives à la propriété intellectuelle ...
La OMS adopta ?el documento más importante desde la Declaración de Doha? sobre PI y salud pública
Posted on May 30, 2008Por William New La Asamblea Mundial de la Salud anual llevada a cabo el sábado adoptó una estrategia mundial destinada a llenar el vacío en investigación para enfermedades que afectan a los países en desarrollo que coloca al organismo de Naciones Unidas en el centro de la formulación de políticas de ...
Embattled ACTA Negotiations Next Week In Geneva; US Sees Signing This Year
Posted on May 30, 2008By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Formal negotiations on an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) are expected to commence next week in Geneva, according to a European Commission official, even as a leaked United States trade office paper is drawing criticism of the proposed pact...
UNCITRAL Lays Groundwork For Policy On IP Assets And Financing
Posted on May 30, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch NEW YORK - The groundwork has been laid at the United Nations by governments, nongovernmental organisations, and intellectual property and finance experts on how to use intellectual property assets to encourage credit around the globe while not interfering with intellectual property laws...
WHO Adopts ?Most Important Document Since Doha? On IP And Public Health
Posted on May 29, 2008By William New The annual World Health Assembly on Saturday adopted a global strategy aimed at filling the research gap for diseases afflicting developing countries that places the UN agency squarely in global intellectual property policymaking and is the most significant reference document on IP and public health in years, according ...
European Commission Proposes Forum On Future Of Copying Levies
Posted on May 28, 2008By David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch BRUSSELS - The European Commission has recommended that a forum involving creative artists and the consumer industry should be established to determine the future of private copying levies. Twenty-one of the European Union?s 27 countries impose oft-criticised surcharges on equipment - ranging from blank ...
Not All Patents Created Equal, Technology Policy Experts Say
Posted on May 28, 2008By Kaitlin Mara NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT - The efficacy of the patent system is not equivalent across all industries, and appears to be particularly ineffective in software, said a panel at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference held at Yale University last week...
International ?Making Available? Right Becoming Less Available In US Law
Posted on May 28, 2008By Steven Seidenberg for Intellectual Property Watch The United States can't make up its mind. On one hand, the country has signed at least nine international agreements that explicitly provide a new digital right for copyright owners: the exclusive right to make their works electronically available to the public...
Debate Surrounds Final WHO Global Strategy, Action Plan On IP And Health
Posted on May 24, 2008[Note: The assembly reached agreement on the global strategy, according to the WHO. Details will follow on Monday.] By William New Draft texts of a global strategy, plan of action and resolution on ways to stimulate research into neglected diseases disproportionately affecting poor populations were adopted Saturday at committee level by World ...
WHO Members Near Accord On Global Strategy On IP And Health
Posted on May 23, 2008By William New Down to the final hours before the closing ceremonies of this year?s World Health Assembly, governments have nearly completed work on a global strategy to stimulate research into neglected diseases disproportionately affecting poor populations...
New Text Of WHO Draft Global Strategy On IP And Health Now Available
Posted on May 23, 2008A new draft global strategy and plan of action on innovation, intellectual property and public health has been circulated Friday at the 19-24 May World Health Assembly. The new draft shows areas of agreement in this week's assembly, and difficult areas that remain to be agreed by Saturday...
Slow Going On Intellectual Property, Innovation Strategy At Health Assembly
Posted on May 22, 2008By William New Negotiators of a global strategy to boost innovation in and access to treatments for under-researched diseases largely afflicting the poor this week are working behind closed doors in increasingly smaller groups and have a few breakthroughs to report so far, according to some participants...
Projet de loi sur la reforme du regime des brevets: l?administration Bush intensifie ses efforts pour qu?il soit approuve cette annee
Posted on May 21, 2008par Liza Porteus Viana pour Intellectual Property Watch Bien qu?en apparence, la réforme des brevets soit entrée dans une impasse au Congrès américain, l?administration Bush intensifie ses efforts pour qu?un projet de loi soit achevé au cours de la période de séances actuelles au Congrès...
World Health Assembly Opens On Note Of Global Crises, Hope For IP
Posted on May 20, 2008[Note: updated Tuesday morning] By William New The 61st annual World Health Assembly on Monday opened auspiciously with speeches on the world?s biggest political issues, current disasters and looming global threats, but little room for intellectual property issues...
UNCITRAL Begins Debate On Harmonising Secured Financing, IP Laws
Posted on May 20, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch NEW YORK - A United Nations group on Monday began debate on a publication aimed at helping the world's governments harmonise their secured financing and intellectual property laws. The UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group VI is meeting in New York ...
Intellectual Property Issues Come To A Head At World Health Assembly
Posted on May 19, 2008By William New Member governments of the World Health Organization will try this week to finalise a strategy and plan of action to stimulate innovation on diseases disproportionately affecting poor populations. The members also will discuss the WHO?s latest efforts on counterfeit medicines, the impact of intellectual property rights on pandemic ...
INTA 130th Annual Meeting: Networking, Anti-Counterfeiting, Emerging Markets
Posted on May 19, 2008By Catherine Saez BERLIN - About 8,000 trademark professionals and industry representatives from more than 130 countries have gathered at this week?s International Trademark Association (INTA) meeting from 17 to 21 May. Trademark lawyers mostly come to this annual event to meet their international counterparts and clients but also to hear the ...
La Administración Bush intensifica esfuerzos por lograr la aprobación del proyecto de ley sobre reforma del régimen de patentes este año
Posted on May 19, 2008Por Liza Porteus Viana para Intellectual Property Watch Pese a un aparente estancamiento en la reforma del régimen de patentes en el Congreso de los Estados Unidos, la Administración Bush sigue presionando para que se finalice la aprobación de un proyecto de ley en el actual período de sesiones del Congreso...
Etats-Unis: la Cour d?appel face à la brevetabilité des méthodes commerciales
Posted on May 19, 2008Par Drew Clark pour Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC ? Le Président de la Cour d?appel chargée de statuer sur les litiges concernant les brevets a accepté de reconsidérer la décision rendue en 1998 qui admettait la possibilité de breveter des méthodes commerciales afin de déterminer s?il s?agit d?une bonne politique ...
Tribunal de Estados Unidos reexamina la protección por patente de modelos comerciales
Posted on May 19, 2008Por Drew Clark para Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC.- El principal tribunal de apelación de Estados Unidos que entiende en litigios de patentes reconsideró de lleno si la decisión de Estados Unidos, adoptada en 1998, de dar mayor cabida a la protección por patentes de métodos comerciales era la política de ...
Bush Administration Presses On For Patent Reform Bill This Year
Posted on May 16, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch Despite an apparent stalemate on patent reform in the United States Congress, the Bush administration is still pushing for a bill to be completed this congressional session. Speaking in California's Silicon Valley this week, US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez acknowledged that talks over S ...
Suspension des obligations au titre de l?Accord sur les ADPIC: une alternative croissante en matière de sanction
Posted on May 16, 2008Par Catherine Saez Prendre des mesures de rétorsion à l?égard d?un pays violant les règles de l?Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) en sanctionnant les activités qu?il exerce dans un secteur autre que celui concerné par la violation constitue une alternative efficace aux mesures de rétorsion touchant le secteur concerné par la ...
UN Events Map Efforts To Narrow Digital Divide, Increase Information Access
Posted on May 16, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Nearly three weeks of meetings of governments, civil society organisations, trade groups, and intergovernmental bodies will report on how far nations have come towards bridging the so-called ?digital divide? between those who have access to information technology and all of its attendant benefits, and those whom the digital ...
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