October Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available

The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Reporter features the most important news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the IP community at the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Geneva missions, regional and national IP offices, industry and non-governmental organisations, plus News Briefs on reports and events that do not appear on the IP-Watch website.

For this and more, read the Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Reporter, now available online for subscribers at: http://www.ip-watch.org/user/newsletter.

• UN Climate Change Meeting In Bangkok Aims At Copenhagen Deal
• WIPO Assemblies Firm Up Mandates For Traditional Knowledge, Gurry
• Global Oversight For Internet; US Role In Core Infrastructure Unchanged
• UN Seed Conference Contrasts IP, Plant Breeding With Food Security
• Google Book Settlement Faces Mounting Opposition; Hearing Looms
• ‘Tethered’ Devices Raise Questions For Regulators On Digital Content
• Biotech Lobby Eyes Healthcare, Energy, Patents And Investment
• Gene Patenting Comes Into Question In US; EU Watchful
• Brand-Name Drug Companies Buy Off Generic Rivals; US, EU Object
• TRIPS Cross-Retaliation Possible Lever For Brazil After WTO Ruling
• Access To Safe Medicine A Public Health Issue, Not IP, Panel Says
• Disagreements Overcome To Pursue UN Climate Services Framework
• WIPO “IP Authorities” Urge Action On Patent Infrastructure, Backlog
• WIPO: IP Tied To Economic Cycles Though Crisis Impact Varies
• US Acts To Preserve Internet Neutrality; European Debate Heats Up
• News In Brief
• People