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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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LDCs Commit To Use IP For Development At WIPO; Use Of Exceptions, Flexibilities Omitted

Posted on July 27, 2009
Officials from least developed nations on Friday agreed to a strategy for using intellectual property to encourage local innovation, protect national cultural and genetic resources, attract foreign direct investment, and spur development at a World Intellectual Property Organization forum on the use of intellectual property for ?prosperity and development...

Lamy To Meet With WTO Membership On IP Issues; Breakthrough Unlikely

Posted on July 24, 2009
World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy on Monday is expected to inform members that months of informal consultations on two key intellectual property issues on which a majority of governments would like a clear negotiating mandate have not yet resulted in an agreement...

WIPO Members Scrutinise Draft 2010-2011 Programme, Budget

Posted on July 23, 2009
The member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization this week carefully analysed the draft programme and budget for 2010-2011 proposed by the WIPO secretariat ? the first one fully reflecting the strategic realignment of the UN organisation by Director General Francis Gurry...

Drop In R&D Funding For HIV Vaccine

Posted on July 21, 2009
Global research funding for HIV vaccine decreased by 10 percent in 2008 from the previous year, representing the first time the levels have fallen since investment trends have been tracked, according to a new report. The report was released this week by the HIV Vaccines and Microbicides Resource Tracking Working Group, an initiative of UNAIDS [...

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Entangled In Amendments, HADOPI 2 Hits Summer Break

Posted on July 21, 2009
The French National Assembly vote on a bill to protect literary and artistic intellectual property rights online has been pushed back to September, according to a source at the Assembly. The bill passed the French Senate on 8 July (IPW, IP Burble, 9 July 2009)...

ACTA Talks May Open Up, Slightly

Posted on July 20, 2009
The latest round of negotiations for an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) held in Rabat, Morocco on 16-17 July resulted in the announcement that after closed-door discussions on transparency, the only agreement reached on transparency was to release draft agendas of future closed-door negotiating rounds...

Innovation Policy Needs National Focus, Use Of TRIPS Obligations, Panellists Say

Posted on July 20, 2009
Innovation is a main driver for economic growth and development for developing countries, said speakers at an event focusing on innovation in Brazil, India and South Africa. But although innovation is increasing and is a priority in developing economies, one expert said invention capabilities remain in the hands of historical players and governments need to seek innovative policy responses.

Shift In IP Top Posts At WHO

Posted on July 17, 2009
From the ip-health listserv Friday, an internal communication from World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan announcing a change in staff responsible for innovation and intellectual property issues. On 1 August, Elil Renganathan of Malaysia, the current director of Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, will move to become director of Planning, Resource Coordination and [...

?Drop Internet Issues From ACTA, Add Public Interest?

Posted on July 17, 2009
Nine organisations representing the technology industry, libraries, digital rights and privacy interests have sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk urging that issues related to the internet be dropped from negotiations for an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)...

Life-Saving Mosquito Nets Subject Of Tough Tiff Over Trade Secrets

Posted on July 17, 2009
COPENHAGEN - While sales of insecticide-treated bed nets have skyrocketed in recent years and boosting their use is among the UN Millennium Development Goals, two producers of the nets have been caught in a rigorous legal case involving trade secrets...

US Measures To Strengthen Trade Enforcement

Posted on July 16, 2009
United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk on Thursday announced new measures to strengthen the enforcement of the country?s trade rights seen as a key part of US economic recovery and growth strategy. ?Our new approach to enforcement is simple,? Kirk said in a statement, available here...

ECOSOC Calls For Intensified Efforts On Public Health And Use Of TRIPS Flexibilities

Posted on July 16, 2009
The United Nations Economic and Social Council, a key coordinating body meeting this summer in Geneva, is considering ways to move nations faster toward global public health goals, with a warning from developing countries that intellectual property rights should not interfere with access to medical products and innovation.

Double Serving In Geneva: McDonald?s’ IP Tax Move

Posted on July 16, 2009
McDonald’s is shifting its European headquarters to Geneva in an apparent attempt to avoid new tax rules in the United Kingdom that would result in double taxation of revenues earned from intellectual property rights, according to a spokeswoman for McDonald?s quoted in the Guardian newspaper this week...

UK Parliament Report: Health Access A ‘Treatment Timebomb’

Posted on July 15, 2009
“Maintaining HIV/AIDS treatment to keep people alive will cripple developing economies, or place unbearable strains on richer countries trying to support them and action is needed now, to avert crisis later,” says a report released this week by a cross-cutting parliamentary group in the United Kingdom...

Conference May Boost WIPO Mandate On Food Security, Public Health

Posted on July 15, 2009
A conference at the World Intellectual Property Organization exploring and clarifying the connection between its work and several major public policy issues ended Tuesday with a look at public health and food security.

WIPO Looks At Mandate On IP And Climate Change, Access For Reading Impaired

Posted on July 14, 2009
A conference aimed at sketching out ideas for the World Intellectual Property Organization?s involvement in issues of global public policy kicked off Monday with explorations on the link intellectual property and environmental technology and a separate event devoted to access to reading material for the visually impaired.

July Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available

Posted on July 13, 2009
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 July edition is now available for subscribers.

Interview With David Lammy, UK Minister of Intellectual Property

Posted on July 13, 2009
In a short videocast, Lammy offers his views on global public policy, patent backlogs, patent pools and the role of WIPO.

Special Report: Swedish Author?s Take On The Catcher In The Rye Copyright Court Case

Posted on July 10, 2009
COPENHAGEN ? Windupbird Publishing owned by Swedish author Fredrik Colting, alias John David California, promises that its books will ?tickle your feet and yank your soul.? But American author J.D. Salinger is not amused and has indeed been wound up by Colting's latest book, which he says is infringing on the copyright of his best-seller, "Catcher in the Rye...

G8 Public Health Report Cites IP, Innovation

Posted on July 10, 2009
The Group of 8 industrialised countries plus Russia have issued their report on global public health, and a preliminary report on accountability. The 165-page health report (mostly annexes) encourages implementation of the World Health Organization strategy on intellectual property rights and innovation...

How To Avert The Coming Drug Access Crisis

Posted on July 10, 2009
Interview With Ellen ?t Hoen, Senior IP Advisor At UNITAID, author of "The Global Politics of Pharmaceutical Monopoly Power."

Int�r�t croissant pour les IG : une r�forme internationale est n�cessaire selon les partisans

Posted on July 10, 2009
TERUEL, ESPAGNE ? Les indications g�ographiques (IG), qui favorisent une croissance �conomique durable et offrent une garantie de qualit�, servent � la fois les int�r�ts des producteurs et ceux des consommateurs. Telle est la conclusion d?une r�union � haut niveau qui a rassembl� des partisans des IG en juin...

Special Report: Swedish Author?s Take On The Catcher In The Rye Copyright Case

G8: Amid Talks Of Climate, Economy, Food And Health Lies IP & Innovation

Posted on July 09, 2009
Leaders of the seven biggest economies and Russia (G8) at their annual summit this week in L'Aquila, Italy have made very cautious commitments with regard to the top issue, climate change, but views on intellectual property rights enforcement began to become clear on the second day...

Too Pricy For A Patent? Glivec Rejected

Posted on July 09, 2009
Novartis?s patent application for Glivec, a blood cancer drug, was recently ruled not patentable by the Intellectual Property Appellate Board of India (IPAB) for failing to meet the requirements under section 3(d) of the Indian Patent Act, which states that a pharmaceutical derivative must demonstrate enhanced ?efficacy? over the prior known molecule, according to Indian [...

WCO Kills ?SECURE? Group, But Creates Health Enforcement Mandate

Posted on July 09, 2009
The World Customs Organization at its annual assembly in late June replaced a controversial group on counterfeiting and piracy with a softer dialogue mechanism that may defuse earlier concerns of potential overreaching on intellectual property infringement by customs officials...

Hadopi 2 Passes French Senate

Posted on July 09, 2009
A French bill to protect literary and artistic intellectual property rights on the internet passed the French senate last night with 189 votes in favour over 142 votes against its adoption. A law creating a high-level authority for the protection of artistic works on the internet (with the French acronym HADOPI) passed in May (IPW, Enforcement, [...

EU Finds Anti-Competitive Abuse Of Pharmaceutical Patents, Launches Antitrust Action

Posted on July 08, 2009
Pharmaceutical companies are manipulating the intellectual property rights system and are ?actively trying to delay the entry of generic medicines onto their markets,? a top EU official said of an EU inquiry into the pharmaceutical sector released Wednesday...

Next ACTA Meeting 16-17 July In Morocco

Posted on July 07, 2009
The closely held date of the next negotiating meeting on the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) is 16-17 July in Morocco, according to an official source. The ACTA negotiation has roiled activists and others for being conducted mostly in secret with little non-industry public input...

Kenyan AIDS Patients Seek To Overturn Anti-Counterfeiting Law As Unconstitutional

Posted on July 07, 2009
NAIROBI - Three HIV/AIDS patients in Kenya announced Tuesday they will petition the country's Constitutional Court to declare a new anti-counterfeiting act illegal because it could deny them access to generic medicines. The move, which has the support of public health groups across the country, seeks to have the 2008 Anti-Counterfeiting Act made unconstitutional on the grounds that it could rob them of their right to life.

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