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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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Rapport entre propriété intellectuelle, transfert de technologie et développement

Posted on August 24, 2010
Résumé: analyse des pratiques et des politiques impliquant la propriété intellectuelle, le transfert de technologie et le développement démontrant la difficulté de parvenir à une corrélation positive entre ces différents domaines. Related Articles:Conférence de Copenhague: incertitude sur les droits de propriété intellectuelle Pour les experts, l?accès à des médicaments sûrs est une question de santé publique et non de propriété intellectuelle Les pays en développement s?investissent de plus en plus dans le programme d?application des droits à l?OMPI

US Internet Neutrality Flare-Up Resonates Across International Front

Posted on August 23, 2010
A network neutrality policy proposed recently by industry giants Google and Verizon not only sparked controversy here in the United States, but the news is making waves internationally as well. Related Articles:US Acts To Preserve Internet Neutrality; European Debate Heats Up US Advisory Group Looks At FCC Net Neutrality Principles As Decision Looms MPAA On Broadband, Net Neutrality: Regulation Good, Not Good

The Future Of Biotechnology Patents In The European Union

Posted on August 17, 2010
A recent Court of Justice of the European Union opinion in Monsanto Technology LLC v. Cefetra BV et al. may unintentionally inflict serious economic harm on the European biotechnology industry, argue industry attorneys Richard Peet, Vid Mohan-Ram, and Philippe Vlaemminck...

Proposed WIPO Strategic Plan Shows Positioning For Uncertain Future

Posted on August 16, 2010
The importance of knowledge is increasing at a rate faster than patent offices can keep up with the demands of new inventors, reads the introduction to a proposed six-year strategic plan of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Creators and manufacturers of knowledge products are rapidly diversifying geographically, new innovation models are arising, and new demands are being placed on protected works for use in technology transfer or for shared global needs such as environmental sustainability or public health...

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WHO Declares Flu Pandemic Over; Experts Behind Response To Be Revealed

Posted on August 10, 2010
The pandemic threat of the H1N1 or "swine flu" virus has now passed, World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan announced today. Related Articles:Committee Examines Undue Influence, Coordination In WHO Pandemic Flu Response WHO’s Chan Responds To Allegations Of Misconduct On Flu Pandemic WHO Spins New Defence Of Its Swine Flu Response

August/September Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available

Posted on August 10, 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 August/September edition is now available for subscribers at: http://www...

Intellectual Property Watch Thanks You For Your Support

Posted on August 09, 2010
Dear Readers, Intellectual Property Watch would like to thank all of you who responded to our first-ever call for help with a show of support from a range of sectors over the past few weeks. Finding a sustainable model will be essential to our ability to continue bringing you the unique, high-quality reporting, documents and information you have come to expect from us in an open-access format...

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Posted on August 02, 2010
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Coverage Of Anti-Counterfeit Policy Debate Varies Widely Across Global Media

Posted on August 02, 2010
Are counterfeit products first and foremost a threat to human health and safety or is provoking anxiety just a clever way for wealthy nations to create sympathy for increased protection of their intellectual property rights? In Geneva the debate is raging, but a look at a sample of coverage of this issue in the world?s news media shows it can vary greatly...

Experts, Policymakers Debate Solutions For Counterfeit Products

Posted on July 30, 2010
A group of policymakers and other experts met this month in Geneva to discuss counterfeit and unsafe products and wrestled with possible balanced solutions to the problem. The event was hosted by the United States mission and supported by the US Chamber of Commerce...

Bayer ?Liberty Link? Maize Banned From Brazil

Posted on July 29, 2010
German biotechnology company Bayer has met resistance in Brazil where the Paraná Federal Court revoked the authorisation for the commercial release of the company?s ?Liberty Link? genetically modified maize on 27 July, according to a press release posted on the website of one of the civil lawsuit complainants...

Civil Society Groups Warn EU On ACTA

Posted on July 29, 2010
An international set of civil society groups today sent a letter to the European Union trade commissioner outlining concerns that the latest, leaked, version of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement under negotiation will introduce ?new and unbalanced intellectual property rules? which ?would condone overzealous and erroneous enforcement of intellectual property for medicines and thereby pose a [...

Global AIDS Conference Sees Pledge Of Access, Call For Funding; IP Rights Discussed

Posted on July 28, 2010
The global AIDS community meeting in Vienna last week ended with renewed determination to fight the epidemic but underlined an urgent need for increased funding to sustain scientific advances and universal access. Some warned against an intellectual property rights enforcement push threatening global access in particular through bilateral and regional trade agreements...

USPTO Seeks Comments On Post-Bilski Guidelines

Posted on July 28, 2010
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has posted supplemental interim guidance for the patent examining corps to use when determining subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in light of the US Supreme Court?s holding in Bilski v...

Is USPTO 3-Track Plan TRIPS Non-Compliant?

Posted on July 28, 2010
A new proposal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a “Three Track” system for patent examination may violate US obligations under the World Trade Organization Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement, US IP lawyer Harold Wegner, a partner at Foley & Lardner, has argued...

US Jobs Bill Would Restrict Foreign Access To Patent Applications

Posted on July 28, 2010
As the jobless rate remain high and budgets tight, United States policymakers increasingly are looking for ways to boost domestic innovation in order to create new jobs and boost the economy. One such bill to be announced tomorrow, called the "Strategic Manufacturing & Job Repatriation Act" aims to develop a national manufacturing strategy to create American jobs, including by lowering access to early patent applications and prioritising university patents...

The Great Firewall of China: When Does Online Censorship Violate WTO Rules?

Posted on July 28, 2010
China?s government says it is acting in the best interests of its citizens. It is regulating the internet in order to protect its people from pornography and other objectionable content. Critics, however, assert that China is guilty of wide-ranging censorship, drastically limiting what mainland residents can see, hear and say online...

Reminder: Urgent Call To Support Intellectual Property Watch

Posted on July 28, 2010
Dear Readers, we at Intellectual Property Watch are writing to politely remind you that the financial support of every one of you is needed this year, especially those of you who have long benefited from our open-access work and have never been asked to contribute...

The WHO?s Complex Path On Counterfeiting, R&D Financing, Pandemics

Posted on July 27, 2010
The World Health Organisation is following a complicated timeline for new mandates on combating fake medicines, creating alternative financing mechanisms for research and development on neglected diseases, and improving pandemic influenza preparedness...

Review Of US Digital Millennium Copyright Act Brings New Exemptions

Posted on July 27, 2010
The United States Copyright Office this week completed its statutorily required review of the landmark Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Included in the ruling were three major exemptions: a renewal on the exemption for cell-phone unlocking, a new exemption for the jailbreaking of smart phones technology, and the use of visual media clips for transformative, non-commercial works...

US Second Circuit Decision Opens Questions Of Transformative And Fair Use

Posted on July 27, 2010
A recent US court decision introduces entirely new questions about the balance between a transformative work and a copyright infringement. It also places the responsibility of balancing the public interest in freedom of expression against the interests of rights holders squarely in the hands of the court, writes Leslee Friedman...

WIPO Sees First Real Progress In 10 Years On Text For Protection Of Folklore

Posted on July 26, 2010
Experts meeting last week at the World Intellectual Property Organization made the first real strides in over a decade at developing a concrete rules to protect the cultural expressions and folklore of indigenous and local communities. Related Articles:WIPO Traditional Knowledge Committee Opens With Hope For Text-Based Talks WIPO Traditional Knowledge Committee Agrees To Intensify Text-Based Negotiations Mismatch On Traditional Knowledge Treaty Text, Negotiating Sessions At WIPO

WHO Working Documents On R&D Financing Now Online

Posted on July 22, 2010
World Health Organization working documents are now available online here. The documents for the first time reveal details of the working process of an expert working group (EWG) tasked with finding innovative solutions to finance research and development on drugs for neglected diseases...

International Experts See Backswing In Pendulum Of Biological Patenting

Posted on July 21, 2010
MUNICH ? Some experts in Europe are coming to agreement that a tipping point might have been reached with regard to biological patents. At a conference organised this week by the ?no patents on seeds? initiative on the eve of a public hearing of the European Patent Office on cases involving the patenting of broccoli and tomatoes, nongovernmental representatives and farmers associations from Europe and elsewhere said there were detectable changes in American jurisprudence and European governments seem to be rethinking the biopatent issue...

Consensus On Binding Biodiversity Agreement Elusive, To Reconvene in September

Posted on July 20, 2010
A last-chance negotiation of a draft protocol text on biodiversity access and benefit-sharing has been given yet another chance as delegates parted ways on Friday in Montreal without an agreement but with a tentative plan to reconvene to try to tie it up before a major UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in October...

Agencies Talk Cooperation On Medicines Access; Stakeholders Cautious

Posted on July 19, 2010
Key international agencies for health, trade and intellectual property on Friday jointly organised a symposium on access to medicines in an effort to gather information and expertise as a basis of a collaborative response to the challenges of public health...

AIDS Conference Campaigns For International Focus, Funding and Research

Posted on July 19, 2010
The 18th International AIDS conference opened its doors in Vienna on Sunday with a purpose of keeping the HIV issue high among international priorities in the context of a global economic crisis, and to promote universal access to treatment. Related Articles:ECOSOC Adopts Resolutions On Digital Divide, HIV/AIDS, But Hurdles Remain Public Health Policy In 2010: Research Funding And Regulations Ecuador Grants First Compulsory Licence, For HIV/AIDS Drug

Hopes Fading For Concluding Biodiversity Access And Benefit Sharing Negotiations?

Posted on July 16, 2010
The clock was ticking with only a day to go in this week?s meeting of a UN working group on biodiversity trying to reach an agreement on a draft protocol text on access and benefit-sharing. Related Articles:Biodiversity Negotiators Seek To Finalise Draft Access, Benefit-Sharing Regime UN Biodiversity Talks Resume, Last Chance For Agreement Before October Deadline UN Claims Victory In Biodiversity Talks, But Outcome Not Certain

OECD Sees New Angle On Innovation For Growth, Social Challenges

Posted on July 16, 2010
Innovation is a key factor in economic growth but is not only about research as it is a system with many different interacting parts including R&D as one of those elements, a senior developed nations group representative said this week. Governments need to promote policies that integrate the cross-cutting nature of innovation and favour evidence based decision making, he said...

Brazil?s Discussion On Copyright Law Reform – Response To The Digital Era?

Posted on July 15, 2010
Brazil is actively engaged in a cutting-edge debate over reform of its copyright law, involving issues such as the abuse of copyright holders and constructive exceptions in the law (like copying for education and/or transformative purposes and authorisation to copy by libraries and museums to preserve their works)...

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