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Archives for October 2012

WIPO-Sponsored Neglected Diseases Consortium Celebrates Successful First Year

30/10/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

This week, members of a consortium sponsored by the World Intellectual Property Organization to facilitate research in neglected diseases celebrated the first anniversary of the initiative and claimed an expanding membership and several research collaborations or agreements.

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, English, Health & IP, Innovation/ R&D, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Technical Cooperation/ Technology Transfer, WIPO

UPOV Council To Formalise Access To Documents; Civil Society Seeks Greater Participation

29/10/2012 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments

Members of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) meet this week for their annual Council and a series of preparatory meetings. Meanwhile, civil society keeps pushing for greater participation.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, News, Themes, Venues, Biodiversity/Genetic Resources/Biotech, Development, English, Environment, Innovation/ R&D, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge, UPOV / CBD, United Nations - other

Petition Urges Delay, Discussion Of Pan-African IP Organization

24/10/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments

A new petition circulating worldwide urges the delay of a suddenly fast-moving proposal to create a Pan-African Intellectual Property Organization (PAIPO). The delay effort – which seeks an open discussion of the proposal to make it more tailored to local African needs – comes just weeks before African Union representatives meet to consider its adoption.

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Africa, Bilateral/Regional Negotiations, Copyright Policy, Development, English, Health & IP, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy, Technical Cooperation/ Technology Transfer, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, WIPO

In Search of Relevance, Not Solutions: The Truth About ITU’s ‘Patent Roundtable’

24/10/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments

Meetings at UN agencies in Geneva are not often mainstream news – but given the high profile nature of legal disputes about smartphone and tablet technology taking place around the world, a meeting to discuss an arcane area of patent policy – the ITU Patent Roundtable – was widely covered, as it brought together some of the titans of the mobile and internet industry plus government regulators and standards bodies.

Filed Under: Inside Views, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Enforcement, English, Information and Communications Technology/ Broadcasting, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, United Nations - other

WHO Member States Hammering Out Details On Non-Communicable Diseases

23/10/2012 by Rachel Marusak Hermann, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

In a single voice, public health authorities spoke out about the need to take on the world’s heaviest disease burdens including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases. Now negotiations are narrowing in on the specifics of how to prevent and control these diseases, and achieving agreement on some commitments, including those related to medicine availability, could prove more challenging.

Filed Under: Features, IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, English, Health & IP, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, WHO

Governments Weigh Options On New Top-Level Domains At ICANN

23/10/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

Governments have been considering their options with regard to intervening against applications for new generic top level domains, which are currently being processed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, IP Policies, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, English, ITU/ICANN, Information and Communications Technology/ Broadcasting, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

Horticultural Breeders Call For Stronger Protection Of Innovations

23/10/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

The protection of intellectual property for plant innovation was at the heart of a recent conference on patents and modern plant breeders rights in horticultural breeding.

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Biodiversity/Genetic Resources/Biotech, Enforcement, English, Lobbying, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, United Nations - other

Greens Call For ‘Social Contract For Digital Age’; Lessig Calls US Hopeless On Copyright Reform

22/10/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

BERLIN–The United States is hopeless when it comes to a copyright reform for the internet, US Law Professor Lawrence Lessig told the German Green Party’s congress on internet politics on Saturday. Europe, Lessig said, could take the lead with regard to that reform, which is needed but blocked in the US by vested interests.

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, English, Europe, Lobbying, North America

Peace, Love, and Private Practice: Film Industry Lawyer Ted Shapiro To Depart MPA

22/10/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments

Ted Shapiro, a long-time copyright industry advocate in the European legal trenches for the Motion Picture Association, will leave at year’s end for a private law firm in Brussels.

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Copyright Policy, English, Europe, Lobbying, WIPO

UN: Governments To Double Biodiversity Funding, Push Access/Benefit-Sharing

22/10/2012 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

At last week’s high-level meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) governments agreed to double financial flows toward biodiversity by 2015, the CBD has announced. They also came up with strategy to move forward on access and benefit-sharing of biodiversity.

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Biodiversity/Genetic Resources/Biotech, Development, English, Environment, Finance, Health & IP, Human Rights, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Technical Cooperation/ Technology Transfer, United Nations - other

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