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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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WIPO Proposals Would Open Cross-Border Access To Materials For Print Disabled
Posted on May 28, 2010Negotiators trying to find a solution for the world?s print disabled, who have said copyright law is limiting their access to an already meagre supply of reading material in usable formats, began discussing a possible UN recommendation this week. But the print disabled and their strongest supporters have said such a recommendation - which would not be legally binding - would fall short of meeting their needs...
Knowledge-Building, Strong National Policies Essential For Development, Authors Say
Posted on May 27, 2010The widening gap in scientific and technological capabilities between some developing countries suffering persistent poverty and rich industrialised countries brings to question why some countries are catching up with richer countries, while others are not...
Conference Debates Strategic Patenting, Innovation & Public Health
Posted on May 21, 2010MUNICH - Whether strengthening patent protection and extending data exclusivity is the way to more innovation in the pharmaceutical and diagnostic sector was the subject of a recent conference here. Related Articles:Conference May Boost WIPO Mandate On Food Security, Public Health EU-India Trade Talks Resume Under Cloud Of Concern For Public Health Health Initiative Proposes Rewarding Innovation On Impact Results; Some See Hurdles
New Resolution Gives Governments Control Of WHO Work On False Medicines
Posted on May 21, 2010After an at times bitter week-long debate on the issue of fake and poor quality drugs, member states have decided they will lead the World Health Organization forward towards a resolution on the issue. Related Articles:New Draft Resolution On Counterfeits At WHO WHO: No Evidence Of Misleading On Counterfeit Medicines Counterfeit Medicines In WTO Dispute Process, Heating Up At WHO
NGOs, Industry Weigh Alternatives For R&D Financing, Counterfeiting At WHO
Posted on May 21, 2010The past year?s expert working group process at the World Health Organization on solutions for financing of research and development into diseases afflicting poor nations was flawed and led to an unsatisfactory result, representatives of nongovernmental organisations said this week...
World Health Assembly Creates New Initiative For R&D Financing
Posted on May 21, 2010World Health Organization members today took an important step closer to finding new ways to finance research and development into diseases afflicting developing countries. Related Articles:World Health Assembly Finds Way Forward On Pandemic Flu Health Initiative Proposes Rewarding Innovation On Impact Results; Some See Hurdles WHO Board To Address R&D Financing, Influenza
WHO: No Evidence Of Misleading On Counterfeit Medicines
Posted on May 20, 2010There is no evidence that the work of the World Health Organization has been misled or misled its members on the issue of fake or dangerous drugs, representatives of the UN organisation told journalists today. Nor is the WHO yet ready to drop use of the term 'counterfeit' to describe such medicines despite generic producing nations complaints about possible confusion over the term...
Debate Erupts Over WHO Police Work Against “Counterfeit” Drugs Trade
Posted on May 20, 2010A battle broke out yesterday at the World Health Organization over whether it should continue its relationship with an in-house anti-counterfeiting law enforcement and customs group, and what that decision might mean for the role of the organisation in the fight against fake medicines...
Latest Chair?s Draft Issued On Future Of WHO And IP, Innovation
Posted on May 20, 2010The latest draft is now available from the Swiss chair overseeing a small side group at the World Health Assembly trying to work out how to take forward a landmark initiative within the UN agency on innovation and intellectual property rights. It shows that countries negotiating the WHO?s next step on the sensitive topic are leaning toward establishment of a new group with more government involvement this time...
New Draft Resolution On Counterfeits At WHO
Posted on May 20, 2010A new conference paper has been submitted to the World Health Assembly committee addressing the World Health Organization work on counterfeit and substandard medicines. It offers a way forward on this week's most controversial issue by involving governments directly in the activities through an intergovernmental working group...
Video: WHO’s Precious Matsoso On Public Health, Innovation And Intellectual Property
Posted on May 20, 2010The annual World Health Assembly is considering how to take forward a 2008 landmark decision at the World Health Organization that approved a new Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property. Precious Matsoso, the current director of the WHO programme, spoke to Intellectual Property Watch in April about the ongoing implementation of the strategy, and what is needed to keep momentum going...
Developing Countries Blast WHO Report On IP, Demand Credible Approach
Posted on May 18, 2010A critical report on financing research and development of medicines for the world's poorest was created without transparency, failed to live up to its mandate, and did not address the potential threat that intellectual property rights can pose to access to drugs, developing countries said today at the World Health Assembly...
Advocates Back WHO Resolution On Chagas With Access To Diagnosis, Treatment
Posted on May 18, 2010Two groups this week are urging the World Health Assembly to address access to diagnosis, treatment and new drugs, for a tropical disease that is the leading parasitic killer in the Americas. At a side event on the first day of the assembly, civil society actors also expressed concern about the shrinking input of civil society in the annual WHO members? meeting...
Proposals At WHO Would Boost Drug Safety, Replace Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce
Posted on May 18, 2010Discussion at the annual World Health Assembly on counterfeit medicines may prove lively as stakeholders continue to raise concerns that the term ?counterfeit? will confuse protecting patients from unsafe drugs with protecting trademarks from infringement...
Nouveau projet de l?Equateur : le logiciel libre pour lutter contre le piratage
Posted on May 17, 2010Le logiciel libre est actuellement utilisé comme une alternative légale au piratage de logiciels, dans le cadre d?un projet conjoint lancé par un groupe régional à but non lucratif et par l'office de propriété intellectuelle équatorien (IEPI). Ce projet s'appuie sur les bibliothèques publiques pour diffuser des logiciels libres...
Nueva iniciativa ecuatoriana: combatir la piratería con programas informáticos libres
Posted on May 17, 2010Los programas informáticos libres se están utilizando como una alternativa legal para combatir la piratería de programas informáticos en un proyecto conjunto impulsado por una organización sin fines de lucro regional, en coordinación con el Instituto Ecuatoriano de la Propiedad Intelectual (IEPI)...
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Chan Urges Innovation, Defends WHO Flu Response As New Group Approved
Posted on May 17, 2010World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan opened the annual World Health Assembly today with a welcome of the transparency in the ?most closely watched pandemic in history,? and how the drive to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals would unleash a ?host of innovations for improving health, especially among the poorest,? adding a call for vaccines as one of the ?best life-saving buys on offer...
EU Previews Digital Agenda To 2020
Posted on May 17, 2010The European Union today said half of its productivity gains since 1995 have come from information and communications technology (ICT), and gave some signals about its digital agenda to the year 2020, as part of a broader plan to be “launched shortly...
WHO Members To Act On Research Financing, Pandemic Preparedness
Posted on May 14, 2010How to proceed with the results of an initiative aimed at finding real alternatives for innovative health research financing is on the agenda at next week's World Health Assembly (WHA). The assembly also is expected to approve the continuation of a working group on pandemic influenza preparedness...
Lamy Tells EU Parliament No (For Now) On ACTA
Posted on May 13, 2010World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy has answered a letter from members of the European Parliament asking that the WTO provide an ?expert assessment and analysis of the current provision? of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) under negotiation...
Brazilian Generic Drug Registration Sets Standard For ‘Pipeline’ Patents
Posted on May 13, 2010The first Brazilian generic drug against erectile dysfunction recently received registration at the National Surveillance Agency - a unit of the Health Ministry. The Viagra generic?s registration was only possible because of a decision of the Superior Court that will terminate the drug patent next month, said Odnir Finotti, president of the Pro-Generics Association...
Biotechnology Consultant To Lead WIPO Global Challenges Division
Posted on May 12, 2010A leader for the World Intellectual Property Organization Global Challenges Division - tasked with connecting intellectual property to critical issues such as public health, food security, and climate change - has been named more than a year and a half after the division's creation...
IFPMA Developing World Partnerships Directory
Posted on May 12, 2010The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) has launched its ?Developing World Health Partnerships Directory? for 2010. The directory details long-term (more than one year) public-private partnerships to improve health in developing countries...
Counterfeit Medicines In WTO Dispute Process, Heating Up At WHO
Posted on May 12, 2010The international policy debate over counterfeit medicines and legitimate generics escalated today. Brazil and India took the first step in the World Trade Organization dispute settlement process for treatment of generics medicines falsely labelled counterfeit in Europe, and nongovernmental organisations from both sides of the issue issued new releases stating their positions on the issues at the neighbouring World Health Organization...
May Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available
Posted on May 11, 2010The 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 May edition is now available for subscribers at: http://www...
New WHO Documents Show Results On IP, Innovation, Technology Transfer
Posted on May 11, 2010Three new documents from the World Health Organization programme on intellectual property and innovation obtained by Intellectual Property Watch provide new evidence on how technology transfer is working, analyse research prioritisation at the WHO, and indicate progress on a monitoring and evaluation strategy for the programme's continued implementation, according to a preliminary reading...
ITU-UNESCO Broadband Commission Aims At Global Internet Access
Posted on May 10, 2010A global Broadband Commission for Digital Development announced today will unite industry, government and civil society in an attempt to expand access to the internet - and with that, access to information that is essential to participation and competition in the knowledge economy...
US, WIPO Officials Assess Patent Reform, PCT, Copyright Priorities
Posted on May 10, 2010NEW YORK - Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the United States are ?hotlining? colleagues to ascertain if there is any objection to moving patent reform quickly through the US Senate, a representative of a major stakeholder in the debate said here Friday...
WIPO Traditional Knowledge Committee Moving Toward Legal Agreement
Posted on May 07, 2010A World Intellectual Property Organization committee tasked with finding an international instrument to prevent the misappropriation of traditional knowledge, folklore, and genetic resources has begun in earnest text-based discussions and is now working to find an agreement on extra meetings intended to speed the process towards creating an international legal instrument...
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