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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 Traditional Knowledge Committee Agrees To Intensify Text-Based Negotiations

Posted on May 07, 2010
A meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization committee on traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions and genetic resources drew to a close today with an unusual ending: applause, and an agreement. Related Articles:WIPO Traditional Knowledge Committee Opens With Hope For Text-Based Talks WIPO Traditional Knowledge Committee Moving Toward Legal Agreement Mismatch On Traditional Knowledge Treaty Text, Negotiating Sessions At WIPO

First Arabic Domains Join Internet

Posted on May 06, 2010
For the first time in the history of the internet, non-Latin top-level domains are available in the domain name system. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers yesterday concluded the process to insert Egypt: ??? (Egypt), Saudi Arabia: ???????? (AlSaudiah) and the United Arab Emirates: ?????? (Emarat) to the central root zone...

Initiative For Harmonisation Of Copyright Exceptions In Europe

Posted on May 05, 2010
A new economically driven effort called the Copyright for Creativity Initiative is advocating the harmonisation of copyright exceptions across Europe, and is calling on the European Commission to act upon its 2008 Green Paper ?Copyright in the Knowledge Economy? [pdf]...

Indian IP Office Overturns Patent On AIDS Patient Drug

Posted on May 05, 2010
The Chennai Patent Office in India last week overturned the patent on Valganciclovir, an expensive drug used to prevent an infection to which people with HIV/AIDS or organ recipients are susceptible, an Indian lawyers’ group said today. The patent office decided that the patent held by Swiss company Roche lacked inventive step and did not [...

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Health Initiative Proposes Rewarding Innovation On Impact Results; Some See Hurdles

Posted on May 04, 2010
An alternative initiative to promote access to medicine with a method mimicking market mechanisms means to create additional incentives for health innovation, authors of the proposal said yesterday. But other health actors have reservations. A public event was organised yesterday to discuss how the Health Impact Fund (HIF) could fit within existing structures and what challenges it could face...

Biotech Convention Pays Homage To IP, Pledges To Increase Access To Medicine

Posted on May 04, 2010
Intellectual property rights and access to medicines were on the agenda at the first day of a biotechnology industry group?s annual convention yesterday. The group held a panel on IP rights and also released a policy statement on access to medicine in developing countries...

Indian Official: ACTA Out Of Sync With TRIPS and Public Health

Posted on May 04, 2010
By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch All the “noble announcements” made by EU and US officials about respect for the Doha Declaration on intellectual property trade and public health when negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) does not match the ACTA text, warned Ashutosh Jindal, adviser at the Embassy of India to the EU at [...

A Prescription For Failure: Health And IP In The Dominican Republic

Posted on May 03, 2010
In the United States, trade policy is generally considered an economic issue. But for developing countries like the Dominican Republic, it can be a matter of life and death, write Tanya Baytor and Patrick Griffith of Georgetown University Law Center. Related Articles:EU-India Trade Talks Resume Under Cloud Of Concern For Public Health Public Health Policy In 2010: Research Funding And Regulations WCO Kills ?SECURE? Group, But Creates Health Enforcement Mandate

WIPO Traditional Knowledge Committee Opens With Hope For Text-Based Talks

Posted on May 03, 2010
Negotiators at the World Intellectual Property Organization this week will address longstanding efforts by many WIPO members to begin in earnest text-based negotiations for a tool to better protect traditional knowledge and genetic resources. Related Articles:Mismatch On Traditional Knowledge Treaty Text, Negotiating Sessions At WIPO WIPO Traditional Knowledge Negotiators Dodging Roadblocks WIPO Approves CHF64 Million Conference Hall; Intensive Informals Held On Traditional Knowledge

Coordination Mechanism Adopted For WIPO Development Agenda Implementation

Posted on May 01, 2010
A mechanism to watch the continuing implementation of development-oriented principles into the World Intellectual Property Organization?s work has now been found. For many, the Development Agenda is the most important agreement in WIPO?s recent past, and the mechanism - which will monitor, assess and report on its implementation - was a critical area of importance in ensuring it reaches its full potential...

Negotiators Begin To Find Common Ground In WIPO IP Development Talks

Posted on April 30, 2010
A coordination mechanism and a project on transfer of technology will dominate much of the last day of the World Intellectual Property Organization Committee on Development and Intellectual Property, but with two new projects approved the group has already made progress this week, according to sources...

US Annual IP Enforcement Report Released

Posted on April 30, 2010
An annual report from the Office of the United States Trade Representative on how well it considers other countries to be protecting and enforcing American intellectual property rights is now available. The so-called Special 301 report can be read here [pdf]...

US Bill On Radio Music Royalties Gets Key Backing

Posted on April 29, 2010
The US Performance Rights Act got support from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, California) and Senate Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D, Illinois) last week. The Performance Rights Act seeks to equalise the rights to compensation between performers of sound recordings and terrestrial broadcasters, according to the Act summary...

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Posted on April 29, 2010
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Global IP Enforcement Push Impacting Consumer Access, 2010 IP Watchlist Finds

Posted on April 29, 2010
The second edition of the Consumers International IP Watchlist has been published, with the conclusion that consumers are bearing collateral damage to the enforcement push by entertainment and media lobby groups encouraging stringent national legislations...

EU-India Trade Talks Resume Under Cloud Of Concern For Public Health

Posted on April 27, 2010
BRUSSELS - Negotiations on the EU-India free trade agreement continue tomorrow in Brussels amid warnings from nongovernmental organisations from India and Europe about possible negative consequences for the public health of poor citizens in India. But European negotiators sought to assuage fears...

US Announces 25 New IP Enforcement Positions

Posted on April 27, 2010
Fifteen new Assistant US Attorneys and 20 new Special Agents at the US Federal Bureau of Investigation dedicated to combatting “domestic and international IP crimes” were announced yesterday. The new attorneys are a part of the US Justice Departments Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property programme...

New WIPO Development Agenda Group Seeks Transformation Of UN Agency

Posted on April 26, 2010
Ongoing efforts to implement the 2007 Development Agenda at the World Intellectual Property Organization took another twist today as a new group was launched representing developing countries seeking full transformation of the United Nations body toward a development-oriented perspective on intellectual property issues...

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Posted on April 26, 2010
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Posted on April 26, 2010
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Empresa de c�digo abierto presenta alegato sobre antimonopolio contra IBM; IBM solicita an�lisis

Posted on April 26, 2010
El gigante de la computaci�n IBM enfrenta una reclamaci�n fundada en las disposiciones antimonopolio, presentada ante la Comisi�n Europea por una empresa de programas inform�ticos de c�digo abierto que alega que IBM impide que los clientes usen tales programas...

L?�diteur d?un logiciel open source accuse IBM de concurrence d�loyale – IBM demande une analyse

Posted on April 26, 2010
IBM fait l?objet d?une plainte pour concurrence d�loyale port�e devant la Commission europ�enne par l?�diteur d?un logiciel open source, qui accuse le g�ant de l?informatique d?emp�cher les consommateurs d?utiliser ce logiciel. Au m�me moment, la communaut� open source craint que le fait qu?IBM, d�veloppeur de logiciels open source de premier plan, revendique ses droits de propri�t� intellectuelle pour barrer la route � un concurrent ne repr�sente une menace pour les logiciels libres et open source, et ne conduise � an�antir les revendications de propri�t� intellectuelle �mises par d?autres acteurs...

El Ecuador concede primera licencia obligatoria para medicamentos contra el VIH/SIDA

Posted on April 26, 2010
Este mes, el Ecuador concedi� su primera licencia obligatoria para un producto farmac�utico patentado, desde que el a�o pasado declarara que utilizar�a normas internacionales que permiten tal concesi�n. Esta acci�n ya le ha aportado al pa�s ahorros sustanciales debido a la nueva competencia, seg�n la oficina de propiedad intelectual ecuatoriana...

Medicrime: Another Anti-Counterfeiting Convention Emerges In Europe

Posted on April 24, 2010
While the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is getting a lot of attention with its draft consolidated version just published, there is another convention dealing with one major aspect it was always said ACTA would tackle. The Medicrime Convention of the Council of Europe sets the first international standard for criminalising the manufacturing and distribution of counterfeited medicine risking public health...

New Faces On IP, Innovation At WHO; Matsoso Named South Africa Health Director

Posted on April 23, 2010
The World Health Organization?s team on issues of intellectual property and innovation in public health is seeing changes in key personnel, as implementation of the UN health agency?s plan on IP and innovation hits its stride. Malebona Precious Matsoso has been named Director General of Health for South Africa...

Panellists See Critical Moment For International Policy On Biodiversity And Trade

Posted on April 23, 2010
Negotiations to protect and preserve biodiversity are in a delicate place, as proponents of stronger protection attempt to navigate parallel discussions at different intergovernmental agencies. Related Articles:UN Claims Victory In Biodiversity Talks, But Outcome Not Certain Biodiversity Negotiators Seek To Finalise Draft Access, Benefit-Sharing Regime Biodiversity Negotiations Need To Allow For Flexibility In Business, Industry Says

Shareholders In 3G Mobile Patent Company Seek US Investigation Of Nokia, Ericsson

Posted on April 23, 2010
Two shareholders in a Pennsylvania company with patents key to third generation (3G) mobile communications want the US Department of Justice to investigate European mobile phone manufacturers Nokia and Ericsson and others for failing to pay royalties for use of the technology...

Brazil, US Signed Memorandum On Cotton Dispute

Posted on April 23, 2010
On 20 April, Brazil and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) establishing a fund that ?will transfer resources to benefit the cotton sector in Brazil,? according to a Brazilian government press release. The MOU is ?part of the path forward for the cotton dispute that the United States and Brazil reached earlier this [...

Senators Seek US Investigation Of China?s IP Infringement

Posted on April 22, 2010
United States Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (Democrat, Montana) and ranking member Chuck Grassley (Republican, Iowa) this week requested a US government investigation of the effect of China?s IP rights infringement on American jobs. They allege China?s infringement is estimated to cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs per year and sent a letter to [...

Free Software Used To Fight Piracy, Broaden Knowledge Access In Ecuador

Posted on April 22, 2010
A joint project being launched by a regional non-profit group along with the Ecuador?s intellectual property office (IEPI) aims to reduce software piracy by offering a free software alternative through public libraries. The initiative is meant to encourage the use of legal software and thereby lower the piracy rate...

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