April Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Available17/04/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a CommentA note to our readers: The April edition of Intellectual Property Watch’s Monthly Reporter is available on our website. The monthly publication, available online and in hard copy every month, features an updated compilation of top stories appearing on the IP-Watch Website (www.ip-watch.org). Click here to read the April edition.
Reform Debate Trips Up WIPO Development Aid Meeting15/04/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a CommentMembers of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on Friday failed to agree on the proper role for a permanent committee on technical cooperation that could impact larger efforts by some to reform WIPO toward development issues. Debate focused on a proposal by developed countries (drafted by Canada) to broaden the scope of the existing […]
Non-Profits, Industry Offer Views On WIPO Development Agenda14/04/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a CommentNon-governmental organisations from across the spectrum were elbow to elbow with members of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) this week as they wrestled with a proposal for an agenda to increase attention to the needs of developing countries. Private and non-profit sector representatives generally lined up on either side of debate between developed and […]
WIPO Development Agenda Talks Move Ahead13/04/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a CommentWorld Intellectual Property Organisation members late Wednesday night agreed to continue discussing a proposal to more deeply infuse developing country needs into the mission of the UN body. After three full days of closed-door meetings – much of them in private meetings of smaller groups — members reached a carefully crafted compromise: to hold two […]
Nations Clash On Future Of WIPO Development Agenda11/04/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a CommentDeveloped and developing countries faced off Monday over whether and how the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organisation’s mission should be transformed to better address the needs of developing countries. The basis for the three-day discussion ending Wednesday at the Geneva-based WIPO is a developing country proposal to change WIPO into a more typical U.N. organisation […]
India Joins Opposition To Casablanca Patent Meeting Outcome10/04/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 2 CommentsIndia, a critical player in policy debates at the World Intellectual Property Organisation, has announced its opposition to a recommendation on global patent harmonisation backed by a select group of countries in a February consultation with WIPO Director General Kamil Idris. The recommendation was agreed to by all but one participant in an invite-only consultation […]
WIPO Development Agenda: Developing Countries Submit New Proposals06/04/2005 by Carolyn Deere, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a CommentOn the eve of high-level meetings next week on development and intellectual property, the fourteen co-sponsors of the proposal for the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s new Development Agenda today submitted detailed elaborations of their proposals for incorporating development into WIPO’s work. The fourteen so-called Friends of Development asked the WIPO Secretariat to distribute the proposal […]
Debate Heats Up Over WIPO Development Agenda01/04/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a CommentNegotiators attending closed meetings at a UN body in Geneva in mid-April could shape the policy agenda for development and intellectual property for years to come, participants and observers say. It is not clear how the consecutive meetings at the World Intellectual Property Organisation will relate to one another. The first, an “intersessional intergovernmental meeting” […]
Drug Patents Still At Issue In U.S.-Central America Trade Deal01/04/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a CommentWashington, D.C.–The free trade agreement signed last year by the United States, five Central American nations and the Dominican Republic still faces a tough fight in the U.S. Congress for a number of reasons, one of which remains provisions on the treatment of pharmaceutical patents. Guatemala recently responded to U.S. government and industry pressure by […]
