May Edition of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available

Who will head the new US intellectual property office opening in New Delhi this summer? Who is involved in the recent top-level reshuffling at the World Health Organization (WHO)? Find out in the People section, unique to the Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Reporter. In our unique News Briefs section you can learn more about a new African Copyright and Access to Information Alliance, or the effort at the WHO to set up a task force this summer on counterfeit medicines.

Also, did you miss our online stories about the World Intellectual Property Organization members fighting it out at the top for appointments, or the European Patent Office’s scenarios for the future project?

For this and much more, visit the May edition of the Monthly Reporter of Intellectual Property Watch, now available online for subscribers at: http://www.ip-watch.org/reporter.php

May Edition Table of Contents:

p. 1 WIPO Patent Harmonisation Effort Defeated Again
p. 1 World Health Assembly To Rethink Global Research And IP Framework
p. 2 Work Plan Elusive For WIPO Traditional Knowledge, Biodiversity Committee
p. 4 WIPO Members Vie For Top Management Positions
p. 5 Pfizer Fights IP Flexibilities In The Philippines
p. 6 Yale Conference Invigorates Access To Knowledge Movement
p. 7 IP Issues Await Action On Broader Concerns At WTO
p. 8 EPO Completes First Part Of Its 2020 Scenario Project
p. 9 Intergovernmental South Centre Boosts Its IP Programme
p. 11 News Briefs
p. 12 People

French and Spanish translations of certain stories are available on www.ip-watch.org