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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 Committee Discusses Boosting Client-Patent Adviser Secrecy

Posted on February 01, 2010
A key committee focused on patent law at the World Intellectual Property Organization in seeking to establish its new work programme last week discussed a proposal to better protect the confidentiality of information passed between patent advisers and their clients...

African Plant Extract Freed From German Patent

Posted on February 01, 2010
The European Patent Office?s recent revocation of a German company?s patent on a plant extract is being seen by some as a step toward fighting biopiracy related to intellectual property rights. In its 26 January decision, the EPO considered the compliance of the company with the Conventional on Biodiversity rules on access and benefit sharing...

ACTA Negotiators Report No Breakthroughs On Transparency

Posted on January 31, 2010
Offering no details - as is their standard - government negotiators for a global anticounterfeiting treaty yesterday declared a commitment to try to find ways to increase transparency and inclusion of public input in the secretive talks. But they stopped short of actually committing to increasing transparency and inclusion.

UN Human Rights Body Examines WIPO Development Agenda, Tech Transfer, WHO

Posted on January 29, 2010
A high-level task force on the right to development last week released two new reports at the United Nations, the results of technical missions to the World Intellectual Property Organization on its Development Agenda and to the World Health Organization on its strategy on intellectual property.

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ICANN Head Sounds Policy Alarm On Rapidly Shrinking Internet Space

Posted on January 29, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC - The internet?s technical governing body plans to make a push to educate the global users of the internet on the network?s latest generation technology known as IPv6, Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), said this week.

Panel: Standards Aid Innovation, But Only If Open

Posted on January 29, 2010
Standards are vitally important to innovation but in order for them to serve their purpose effectively, they must be open, said a panel at the World Intellectual Property Organization this week.

New Parliament Group Monitors EU Trade Pacts’ Impact On Poor’s Medicines Access

Posted on January 28, 2010
BRUSSELS - Trade agreements must not contain clauses on intellectual property rights that could imperil the poor?s access to affordable medicines, a veteran member of the European Parliament (MEP) has said.

Latest WIPO Draft Shows Options For Work Programme On Patents

Posted on January 28, 2010
The latest available text on future work at the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on the Law of Patents is available from the IP Watch website. The draft emerged this evening.

Year Ahead: Key Year For Biodiversity, Environment, Food Security, Traditional Knowledge

Posted on January 28, 2010
Access and benefit sharing will top agendas at several different intergovernmental bodies this year on issues of biodiversity, environment, food security and traditional knowledge, and stakeholders will be watching the movement across fora of emerging models and potential pitfalls from parallel negotiations.

Global Anti-Counterfeiting Efforts Set To Rise Further

Posted on January 27, 2010
NEW YORK ? The problem of global counterfeiting has not diminished with the new year, experts said here yesterday, and 2010 promises to bring even more rampant intellectual property theft if countries do not do more to stem the problem. Some countries are mobilising to do just that.

WIPO Patent Committee Prepares To Discuss Future Work Programme

Posted on January 27, 2010
Discussions at the World Intellectual Property Organization patent committee this week are focussed on a series of new studies, though one of the more difficult issues on the table - exceptions and limitations to patent law - will not be substantively dealt with until the next meeting in October...

Under Scrutiny, WHO, Pharma Seek To Explain ?Dangerous Nonsense? Of Pandemic

Posted on January 26, 2010
Representatives of the World Health Organization and the European pharmaceutical industry today answered questions from the Council of Europe and the press on whether they had mishandled an outbreak of influenza this summer.

2010 US Industry Group Priorities: Patent Reform, USPTO Funds, Genes, Green Tech

Posted on January 26, 2010
Along with a domestic agenda that includes patent reform and improving the efficiency of the US Patent and Trademark Office, the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) this year also is eyeing issues at the international level, such as genetic resources, environmental technologies and international patent harmonisation.

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Posted on January 26, 2010
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Microsoft Flogs Cloud Computing In Europe

Posted on January 26, 2010
US software maker Microsoft’s General Counsel Brad Smith in Brussels today proposed a multistakeholder dialogue on cloud computing in Europe aimed at opening up its potential, including through building confidence, government action and harmonisation of national policies...

WHO Lashes Out As Council Of Europe Preps Hearing On Flu Pandemic

Posted on January 25, 2010
The World Health Organization today defended its declaration of a global influenza pandemic, and saying any allegations that it is fake are ?wrong and irresponsible.? The statement comes as the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) prepares for a public hearing tomorrow morning in Strasbourg to examine the allegations, involving representatives of the WHO and European vaccine manufacturers will be in attendance, as will independent medical experts.

Biodiversity ?EcoChic? At UN: ?Organic, Fair Trade, And Damn Sexy?

Posted on January 22, 2010
Biodiversity preservation is getting a makeover, or so hope the organisers of an ?EcoChic? event at the Palais de Nations yesterday. Attendees strategised about how the fickle spirit of fashion might be harnessed to support the UN Convention on Biological Diversity?s access and benefit-sharing regime and sustainability goals, as staff carefully anchored helium-filled white lanterns above a normally staid conference chamber and participants balanced on noticeably higher heels than normally seen in UN corridors.

Film Industry Head Glickman Leaves To Head Refugee Organisation

Posted on January 22, 2010
Motion Picture Association of America head Dan Glickman is moving from protecting intellectual property rights to protecting the rights of displaced people worldwide. Glickman announced today he will leave his position as chairman and CEO of the MPAA on 1 April...

Year Ahead: Stronger Protection, Harmonisation Among Goals For Trademarks And GIs In 2010

Posted on January 21, 2010
Enforcement of rights and a global harmonisation of systems look to be among the focal points of trademark and geographical indications policy in 2010. Significant activity will occur in these areas in Europe. But whether it is the setting up of a database for trademark registration, amendments to the Lisbon Treaty on the Protection of Appellation of Origin, or the evaluation of the European trademark system, efforts to improve current tools are showing at national and international levels.

EU Okays Proprietary Oracle’s Acquisition Of Open Source MySQL

Posted on January 21, 2010
US-based software company Oracle can have its Sun and MySQL too, the European Commission ruled today. The subject of an examination since September 2009, the Oracle-Sun merger deal came under scrutiny over anti-competition concerns.

Year Ahead: Range Of IP Policy Issues May See Action In United States In 2010

Posted on January 21, 2010
With the United States Congress attempting to wrap up healthcare ? a move made more difficult after a Republican won a traditionally Democratic US Senate seat in January - issues such as tax increases for the nation?s largest financial institutions, energy reform and others may take centre stage...

Chan Launches Inquest On Leaked WHO Documents; Meetings Proposed On R&D Expert Report

Posted on January 20, 2010
The first public discussion of an expert report on how to finance the often costly process of research and development to create new medicines, vaccines and diagnostics needed by the poor to address diseases that disproportionately effect them began this week at the World Health Organization...

GSK “Open Innovation Agenda,” Possible Malaria Vaccine

Posted on January 20, 2010
CEO Andrew Witty of UK pharmaceutical manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline today announced the launch of an agenda on “open innovation,” through which it promises increased flexibility over its intellectual property as well as partnerships in which its facilities, infrastructure, and actual chemical compounds are accessible to researchers...

United States Moves To Promote Internet Freedom, ?Knowledge Commons?

Posted on January 20, 2010
The United States is working to become a master at empowering its residents and others through networked technology while it navigates the murky areas of international policy and law.

New Intergovernmental Meeting At WHO Aims To Solve IP Rights And Influenza

Posted on January 20, 2010
A new intergovernmental negotiation, facilitated by the World Health Organization director general, will address an agreement for sharing virus-related materials and benefits and managing associated intellectual property rights in the WHO strategy for responding to pandemic influenza outbreaks.

IP System Soul-Searching In Face Of Success, System Overload

Posted on January 19, 2010
The intellectual property system seems to be tight at the seams with a global overload of work for national IP offices and a backlog in patent requests. Further international cooperation and some adjustments are necessary to keep an efficient high quality IP system, according to speakers at a private-sector meeting in Geneva on 14-15 January.

WTO Adopts Appellate Body Report On US-China Film Distribution Dispute

Posted on January 19, 2010
China is expected to implement changes that will allow foreign distributors to import audiovisual entertainment products in China without trade being narrowed by state-owned channels after it lost its dispute case against the United States at the World Trade Organization (WTO)...

Next Week’s ACTA Round Tackles Online Enforcement, Transparency

Posted on January 19, 2010
The agenda of the seventh round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations has been published, ending months of speculation and concern about the details of the secretive, high-impact talks. No, just kidding. Actually, the agenda for the 26-29 January meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico “released” today by the Office of the United States Trade Representative gives [...

Governments Scrutinise WHO On Pandemic Response, R&D Finance Group

Posted on January 18, 2010
The World Health Organization today declared it will launch a review of the global ? including its own - response to the H1N1 swine influenza epidemic, as questions swirl around whether the UN agency trumped up the importance of H1N1. The WHO also faces charges this week that it has acted without transparency and inclusiveness in leading a process to find alternative financing for research and development into medicines for diseases occurring predominately in developing countries.

Full Report Of WHO R&D Expert Working Group Now Posted

Posted on January 15, 2010
The full text of a report by an expert working group under the auspices of the World Health Organization tasked with finding innovative ways to finance research and development for neglected diseases is now available from the WHO website here. An detailed executive summary of the report was published in late December (IPW, IP Burble, 24 [...

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