Governments and Intellectual Property Community Fight For Open Whois Access 06/07/2006 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Should everybody who registers an Internet domain name be forced to publish his private address, email address and phone number on the Internet? A storm broke out over the question of the so-called Whois data at the meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) […]
MSF: Patent Monopoly Hinders Developing Countries’ Access To New HIV/AIDS Medicine 06/07/2006 by Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment A monopoly by a single pharmaceutical company on a new medicine for HIV/AIDS has limited access to the medicine to a select group of patients in developing countries, a non-profit group said today. The product is lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra) and is only produced by the pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories, which holds the patent for the product, […]
Indonesia Strives To Acquire Bird Flu Medicines Despite No Patent 05/07/2006 by Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment With eight recently confirmed cases of avian influenza, Indonesia is scrambling to build up its stockpile of medicines. The preferred product to fight bird flu in humans is not under patent in Indonesia, which raises questions as to why production has been off to a slow start in the country. Roche, the Swiss producer of […]
Intellectual Property Watch Welcomes Catherine Saez As Office Manager 04/07/2006 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Intellectual Property Watch is happy to announce that Catherine Saez has joined the staff as Office Manager, with critical wide-ranging responsibilities including oversight of office functions, accounting, management of databases, outreach, and editorial contributions. She also will help with French-English translations. Catherine has worked for the last ten years copy-editing and translating publications, managing databases […]
UK Study: NGOs Helpful To Developing Countries But Could Improve 03/07/2006 by Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen for Intellectual Property Watch 5 Comments By Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen Assistance on intellectual property rights from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) is helpful to developing countries but more coordination and a “reality check” are needed, according to Geneva-based government officials. The remarks were made by developing country officials commenting on preliminary findings of a United Kingdom academic study on the impact of […]
Key Personnel Changes Coming At EU, Japan, US Delegations In Geneva 03/07/2006 by Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Key negotiators on intellectual property rights from the European Commission, Japan, and the United States have announced they will be leaving their Geneva posts this summer. The nations represented by these negotiators account for the vast majority of the world’s intellectual property. After three years as intellectual property attaché at the US Mission to the […]