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Archives for September 2014

India’s IP Policy On Stage As Modi Heads To US

05/09/2014 by Patralekha Chatterjee for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

Will India’s new government bring in radical changes in the country’s intellectual property rights regime? That question has generated enormous buzz but no definitive answer ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept to power with a decisive mandate in May this year.

[Update: the Indian government has announced that it has begun a process for a comprehensive IPR policy over the next six months, including a government think tank. See report here. The government website is here.]

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Asia/Pacific, Copyright Policy, English, Health & IP, North America, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

Review Of WIPO Programmes, Staff: Lisbon Agreement, Global Challenges, Geographic Diversity

04/09/2014 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

The World Intellectual Property Organization Program and Budget Committee is meeting this week to scrutinise the UN agency’s inner workings. At the meeting, the director general’s report on programme performance gave member countries the occasion to comment on WIPO’s various programmes. They also reviewed the annual human resources report. [Note: article corrected]

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, Copyright Policy, Development, English, Finance, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Technical Cooperation/ Technology Transfer, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, WIPO

IP-Watch Celebrates 10 Years With An Update!

04/09/2014 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

At Intellectual Property Watch, www.ip-watch.org, we’re celebrating our 10th anniversary by innovating to bring you the best independent coverage of international intellectual property policy possible. We are excited to announce our new website design, aimed at making our content easier to read, navigate and organize, with a simpler layout, clear text, more images, and new features like the From the Regions section.

Filed Under: Editorials, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, English, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, United Nations - other

WHO Health Specialists Meeting To Evaluate Potential Ebola Therapies and Vaccines

03/09/2014 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

The World Health Organization this week is holding a consultation on potential Ebola therapies and vaccines.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Biodiversity/Genetic Resources/Biotech, English, Health & IP, Human Rights, Innovation/ R&D, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Technical Cooperation/ Technology Transfer, WHO

WIPO Members Work To Strengthen Oversight Of UN Agency

03/09/2014 by William New and Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments

World Intellectual Property Organization member governments are hard at work this week trying to improve auditing and oversight of the UN agency, coming after a successful year financially but a year of questions about governance and transparency. Proposed changes include a number of measures on conflicts of interest and investigations even at the highest levels of the organization.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Finance, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, United Nations - other, WIPO

WTO: Antigua Has New Idea For Gambling Case; Cuba Rails Against US Trademark

01/09/2014 by Catherine Saez and William New, Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments

In a longstanding World Trade Organization dispute about measures affecting the cross-border supply of gambling and betting services, Antigua and Barbuda has made a new proposal to the United States on a way to solve the issue of the US not complying with a WTO ruling it lost. And in a separate matter at the same WTO meeting last week, Cuba referred to the US failure to change a law barring a rum trademark in the context of railing against US policy of “economic suffocation” of the island nation.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Finance, Human Rights, IP Law, WTO/TRIPS

Group Calls For ITU Constitution Amendment To Protect Right To Privacy

01/09/2014 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

A report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the right to privacy in the digital age has been lauded by a group of civil society organisations who also called states to curtail mass surveillance and for the ITU constitution to be amended.

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

Industry Applauds Marti Nomination As US IP Enforcement Coordinator

01/09/2014 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

The US IP industry is applauding the nomination of trademark attorney Daniel Marti to be the next US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator.

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Lobbying, North America, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

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