After Grokster, Industry Seeks Legal P2P As Mobile Music Takes Over 29/01/2006 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch CANNES – Napster went down, Grokster went down, yet as both digital music services drew millions of people to their sites, industry is eager to make them stay there as law-abiding music download-services. Now the question has become, what must a legal peer-to-peer (P2P) service look like, and […]
WHO Board Submits Unresolved Text On New R&D Agenda To Assembly 28/01/2006 by Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The World Health Organisation Executive Board agreed Friday to submit a heavily bracketed draft resolution on the need to develop safe and affordable medicines for diseases primarily affecting the world’s poorest people to the World Health Assembly for consideration. The resolution was submitted to the board by Brazil and Kenya with the original headline “Global […]
WHO Board Sends Trade And Health Resolution To Assembly For Vote 27/01/2006 by Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The World Health Organisation Executive Board this week agreed on a resolution linking health to international trade issues, and will forward it on to the World Health Assembly in May for final adoption. The resolution was agreed to by an informal consultation group, open to all member states, on 24 January and the board approved […]
WHO Board Wrestles With IP And Public Health Report, R&D Proposal 27/01/2006 by Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The Executive Board of the World Health Organisation this week is struggling with how to proceed on issues of intellectual property rights, innovation and public health. The issues are being addressed by a special commission which failed to meet a mandate to present its report to the board this week. At the same time, two […]
Le Chili enjoint à l’OMPI de prendre des mesures pour protéger le domaine public 27/01/2006 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment En vue de la prochaine réunion du nouveau Comité du plan d’action de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Propriété intellectuelle (OMPI) pour le développement, le gouvernement chilien a présenté cette semaine une proposition par laquelle il demande que des mesures concrètes soient prises pour la protection du domaine public. La première réunion du nouveau Comité provisoire […]
CBD Meeting Focuses On Access To Genetic Resources, Benefit Sharing 26/01/2006 by Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Member governments of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), meeting in Granada, Spain, have been urged by the secretariat to make progress next week on the development of a global regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing. This week, the members are discussing issues related to the protection and promotion of traditional […]
USTR Clarifies Demand For Details On China’s IPR Enforcement Cases 25/01/2006 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has clarified the legal basis for its insistence that China provide the details of numerous judicial cases involving the enforcement of intellectual property rights from 2001 through 2004. The clarifications are contained in a 20 January letter (obtained by Intellectual Property Watch) from Peter Allgeier, US ambassador […]
R&D Resolution Formally Submitted To WHO Board Meeting 24/01/2006 by Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Brazil and Kenya have officially submitted a resolution on a new global framework for research and development (R&D) to the 23-28 January World Health Organisation Executive Board meeting and the resolution has been placed under an agenda item to come up later this week. The resolution (EB117/Conf.Paper No.3) was formally submitted on Monday afternoon, a […]
Bird Flu Pandemic Priority For WHO Board As Nations Scramble For Supplies 24/01/2006 by Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Pandemic influenza preparedness figures prominently on the agenda of the World Health Organisation’s board meeting this week, and countries are still deeply concerned about the lack of supply, according to sources. One of them is Egypt. A domestic media debate erupted after it became known that the country has only been supplied with some 1,000 […]
WHO IP Commission Seeks To Overcome Leak Of Report To Industry 23/01/2006 by Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment By Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen and William New A closed-door World Health Organisation commission appears to have reached tentative agreement on a draft report on intellectual property rights and public health, according to sources familiar with the situation, despite an alleged earlier leak of the draft or some portion of the draft to industry. The […]