Comments on: Informal UN Climate Talks Indicate Continued Divergence On IP Issues http://www.ip-watch.org/2009/08/28/informal-un-climate-talks-indicate-continued-divergence-on-ip-issues/ Original news and analysis on international IP policy Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:19:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jan Goossenaerts http://www.ip-watch.org/2009/08/28/informal-un-climate-talks-indicate-continued-divergence-on-ip-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-3202396 Jan Goossenaerts Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:26:04 +0000 http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/?p=5841#comment-3202396 In Science of today, Harold Mooney and Georgina Mace suggest that UNFCCC is more fortunate than other multi-lateral agreements that lack a pre-convention science assessment and have no provision for subsequent government-endorsed, independent science. This prompted me to create an opne group for references to (scholarly) publications related to UNFCCC. Open to all at http://www.citeulike.org/group/11578, one must join citeulike at http://www.citeulike.org/ , and become member of the group to contribute. In Science of today, Harold Mooney and Georgina Mace suggest that UNFCCC is more fortunate than other multi-lateral agreements that lack a pre-convention science assessment and have no provision for subsequent government-endorsed, independent science.
This prompted me to create an opne group for references to (scholarly) publications related to UNFCCC. Open to all at http://www.citeulike.org/group/11578, one must join citeulike at http://www.citeulike.org/ , and become member of the group to contribute.

]]> By: Jan Goossenaerts http://www.ip-watch.org/2009/08/28/informal-un-climate-talks-indicate-continued-divergence-on-ip-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-3201259 Jan Goossenaerts Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:27:21 +0000 http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/?p=5841#comment-3201259 For additional insights on how tough the issues are, see: Matthew Rimmer, The road to Copenhagen: intellectual property and climate change; Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 2009 published 10 September 2009, 10.1093/jiplp/jpp148 http://jiplp.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/jpp148v1 ; and: Toyota Patent Trade Case May Threaten Hybrid Imports (Update1) Export, by: Susan Decker, Alan Ohnsman, Bloomberg.com (4 September 2009) at http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=abn6ZQVtClP4 ; IMHO, a possible way out of an imminent impasse is an institutional innovation that i would call "Global Patent Pools" ; for related (background) literature, see: http://www.citeulike.org/group/4408 (on Patent Reform) and http://www.citeulike.org/group/4407 (on Knowledge Economy Reform); A concept paper on global patent pools is in the pipeline. For additional insights on how tough the issues are, see: Matthew Rimmer, The road to Copenhagen: intellectual property and climate change; Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 2009 published 10 September 2009, 10.1093/jiplp/jpp148 http://jiplp.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/jpp148v1 ;
and: Toyota Patent Trade Case May Threaten Hybrid Imports (Update1) Export, by: Susan Decker, Alan Ohnsman, Bloomberg.com (4 September 2009) at http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=abn6ZQVtClP4 ;

IMHO, a possible way out of an imminent impasse is an institutional innovation that i would call “Global Patent Pools” ; for related (background) literature, see: http://www.citeulike.org/group/4408 (on Patent Reform) and http://www.citeulike.org/group/4407 (on Knowledge Economy Reform); A concept paper on global patent pools is in the pipeline.

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