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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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Tough IP Health Provisions In Europe’s Colombia/Peru Trade Deal

Posted on February 25, 2010
Far-reaching provisions on the patenting of medicine have been inserted into a controversial free trade agreement between the European Union and Colombia and Peru.

ACTA Internet Document Leaked, New EU Transparency Call

Posted on February 23, 2010
A new leaked document from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations confirms earlier statements by officials that the agreement does not include mandatory internet cut-off for accused copyright infringers. Yet versions of the so-called “three strikes and you’re out” model have passed in France, New Zealand, South Korea and Taiwan...

Technologies Of Dissent: A Primer From Yale A2K4 Conference

Posted on February 22, 2010
Leaps forward in technology can bring with them dramatic social changes; in particular the expansion of digital and social media has both democratised the power to record information and to be heard, but it has also simultaneously made it easier than ever before for public institutions to intrude upon private lives.

Brazil Takes Next Step Toward Cross-Retaliation Against US

Posted on February 19, 2010
Brazilian President Lula has adopted a measure to enable the suspension of Brazil?s obligations to protect intellectual property rights from the United States, the next step after a World Trade Organization ruling of US non-compliance with WTO rules, according to an unofficial translation of the provisional Brazilian measure.

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Conference: Access To Knowledge, Human Rights Can Learn From Each Other

Posted on February 19, 2010
A treaty on copyright exceptions for visually impaired readers, open educational materials, use of the internet without surveillance, and early human rights movements around access to electricity were among issues debated at a recent academic conference on access to knowledge.

Decision On Google Books Must Wait

Posted on February 19, 2010
Whether a settlement offered to authors whose works are being scanned into a Google database will be accepted or not must wait for the presiding judge, Denny Chin, to sort through volumes of material whose presentation began Thursday, according to news sources...

US Business Calls For IP Enforcement ?Surge?, Seeks New Legislation This Year

Posted on February 18, 2010
The United States? largest industry association today laid out an aggressive legislative agenda on intellectual property, calling for a dramatic increase in enforcement activities including pumped up customs and border authority.

ACTA Negotiators: Maximal Protection Proposals Unlikely In Final Text

Posted on February 18, 2010
The chapter on copyright protection in the digital environment under negotiation in the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is still in an embryonic state, said negotiators coming back from the recent ACTA negotiations in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Contradictory Court Rulings, Continuing Tension On Internet Liability In EU

Posted on February 17, 2010
In its 2010 digital music report, the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said that despite the availability of 400 legitimate online music offerings worldwide and significantly higher 2009 revenues, the music sector remains hard-hit by peer-to-peer and emerging forms of copyright infringement.

Biotech Marathon: Vaccines And Open Innovation, But Less IP?

Posted on February 16, 2010
In a mad-dash 34-hour marathon, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry professionals met on 1-2 February in Geneva in what was intended to be a hearth of partnering opportunities. About 600 participants debated future trends and current challenges along with open innovation, global health and vaccines.

India Blocks GM Crop On Safety Concerns

Posted on February 12, 2010
India this week placed a moratorium on the release of Bt-brinjal, a genetically modified eggplant, until independent scientific studies can establish the long-term impact on human health, environment, and biodiversity. According to the 9 February decision by Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, in intense consultations, ?opinions were sought from a number of scientists both from [...

Year Ahead: Reforming Global IP Systems - Trends In A2K In 2010

Posted on February 12, 2010
Ensuring public access to knowledge while supporting intellectual property rights cuts across broad areas such as internet availability, public health, education and culture, climate change, and basic technical standards. And while the non-profit movement that has worked to encourage access is facing serious challenges this year, they are set to fight it out in the various fora related to essential drugs, books and academic journals, and software again in 2010.

New US IP Task Force To Combat IP “Crimes”

Posted on February 12, 2010
A new United States Department of Justice task force casts enforcement against IP violations as a matter of public protection, and will be dedicated to opposing these IP “crimes.” ?The rise in intellectual property crime in the United States and abroad threatens not only our public safety but also our economic wellbeing,” said US Attorney General [...

Knowledge Access Blooms In The Desert: Egypt?s Fragile Stake In IP

Posted on February 11, 2010
CAIRO - The launch this week on the new campus of American University in Cairo of a new centre and a new book on access to knowledge in Egypt offered a view on the complexities of the issues and the challenges developing countries face to ensure global intellectual property rights are incorporated into their legal systems in the most locally productive ways possible.

OMS: nouvelle r�union de n�gociation concernant la grippe H1N1 et l?�change des virus et audition devant le Conseil de l’Europe

Posted on February 10, 2010
Un accord pr�voyant l?�change d?informations sur les virus et le partage des avantages li�s � la gestion des droits de propri�t� intellectuelle qui en d�coulent devrait �tre conclu dans le cadre d?une nouvelle n�gociation intergouvernementale organis�e sous les auspices de la directrice g�n�rale de l?Organisation mondiale de la Sant�.

WTO Members To Consider Review Of TRIPS Public Health Amendment

Posted on February 10, 2010
A waiver to World Trade Organization rules intended to aid people in poor countries in gaining access to medicines has remained essentially unused in the over six-and-a-half years since it was put in place. On Friday, member states of the WTO will in an informal meeting discuss this situation and see what, if anything, needs be done.

Advisory Group: ?Near Perfect Storm? Coming On Gene Patents In The US

Posted on February 10, 2010
A report by a United States health department advisory group issued last week presents recommendations aimed at preventing patents on genes and licensing practices in the US from negatively impacting patient access to genetic tests that would allow them to establish their genetic dispositions to declare potential illnesses.

Droit d?auteur 2010 : entre une application mod�le et des limitations plus strictes

Posted on February 09, 2010
L?Accord commercial anti-contrefa�on (ACAC), objet de n�gociations secr�tes, est aujourd?hui au centre des d�bats internationaux sur le droit d?auteur. Tel est aussi le cas d?un potentiel nouveau trait� international sur l?acc�s pour les d�ficients visuels aux livres en ligne, qui s?inscrit dans le cadre d?un mouvement plus large en faveur d?une clarification des limitations et [...

Year Ahead: Biotech And Patentability Under Debate In The US, EU

Posted on February 09, 2010
Biotechnology lies at the intersection of a wide spectrum of fields, such as agriculture, health and environment. Because biotechnology relates to life sciences, it is often the subject of ethical, sometimes intense political debates between stakeholders, in particular involving intellectual property rights...

February Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available

Posted on February 09, 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 February edition is now available for subscribers.

Informe de la ONU: las pol�ticas mundiales de PI no prestan atenci�n a los derechos de los ind�genas

Posted on February 09, 2010
Las culturas de los pueblos ind�genas a menudo no se han tenido en cuenta en la elaboraci�n de las normas mundiales de propiedad intelectual, seg�n se afirma en un nuevo informe de las Naciones Unidas.

La OMS organiza nueva reuni�n sobre la gripe y el intercambio de virus gripales, mientras Europa analiza los ?disparates? de la OMS

Posted on February 09, 2010
Se espera que una nueva negociaci�n intergubernamental facilitada por la directora general de la Organizaci�n Mundial de la Salud permita lograr un acuerdo sobre intercambio de materiales relacionados con los virus, compartici�n de beneficios y gesti�n de los derechos de propiedad intelectual conexos.

First-Ever Drop In Filings Under Patent Cooperation Treaty Seen In 2009

Posted on February 08, 2010
International patent filings under the World Intellectual Property Organization?s Patent Cooperation Treaty fell for the first time in three decades in 2009, owing to a deep economic downturn, WIPO officials said today. Overall patent filings fell 4.5 percent in 2009, but industrialised nations were particularly hard-hit, and are also expected to have slower growth rates in 2010 than emerging economies.

Google Book Deal Still Needs Work, US Justice Department Says

Posted on February 05, 2010
The United States Department of Justice yesterday told the US District Court for the Southern District of New York that progress had been made on its concerns in the settlement allowing internet search giant Google to scan millions of books into a database...

EPO Suspends Decision On New President

Posted on February 03, 2010
An extraordinary session of the European Patent Organisation Administrative Council intended to help elect a replacement for outgoing president Alison Brimelow today was again unable to come to a conclusion between the three remaining candidates for the post...

Acc�s aux m�dicaments : cr�ation d?un groupe de travail charg� de contr�ler les accords de libre �change conclus par l?Union europ�enne

Posted on February 02, 2010
BRUXELLES ? Les accords de commerce ne doivent pas contenir de clauses relatives aux droits de propri�t� intellectuelle susceptibles de remettre en cause l?acc�s des pays pauvres aux m�dicaments � des prix abordables, a d�clar� un d�put� chevronn� du Parlement europ�en.

A2K4 Conference To Address IP And Human Rights

Posted on February 02, 2010
The fourth Access to Knowledge conference (A2K4) hosted by the Yale Law School Information Society Project in New Haven, Connecticut (US) will take place on 11-13 February. The event will be streamed live on video here, and will focus on the human rights aspects of intellectual property, and remote participants can submit comments via [...

Year Ahead Copyright 2010: Between An Enforcement ?Gold Standard? And Stronger Limitations

Posted on February 02, 2010
The secretly negotiated Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is now in centre stage in the global debates around copyright, as is a prospective new international treaty on access to online books for the visually impaired which comes as part of a broader push to clarify limitations and exceptions to copyright...

EPO To Elect President In Extraordinary Session

Posted on February 01, 2010
The European Patent Organisation will hold an extraordinary session this week in Munich to try once again to find a replacement for current President Alison Brimelow. At meetings in October and December 2009, none of the then four applicants (IPW, European Policy, 17 September 2009) succeeded in gaining the necessary three-quarters votes to take over the [...

Breakdown In WIPO Patent Committee Could Symbolise Deeper Differences

Posted on February 01, 2010
No agreement could be reached at last week?s meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization committee on patents, a sign of still-deep rifts in what countries want from the global patent system.

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