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Archives for February 2017

Global Fund Hits Reset On Executive Director Search

28/02/2017 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 4 Comments

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is deliberating on how to start over on its search for a new executive director after questions arose near the end of the process.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Development, English, Finance, Health & IP, Other International Orgs, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Technical Cooperation/ Technology Transfer, WHO

Journalists Surveilled By German Intelligence Agency

28/02/2017 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments

The German Federal Intelligence Agency (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) spied on foreign journalists, according to a report of German magazine “Der Spiegel”. A document obtained by the magazine showed that the BND had taps on at least 50 phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses of journalists from the BBC, Reuters and the New York Times.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Europe, Human Rights, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

ICANN Is Moving Toward Copyright Enforcement, Academic Says

28/02/2017 by Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is on an “ambivalent drift” into online content regulation through its contractual facilitation of a “trusted notifier” copyright enforcement program between the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the registry operators for two new generic top-level domains, University of Idaho College of Law Professor Annemarie Bridy says in a draft article for the Washington & Lee Law Review.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, ITU/ICANN

Many Questions On Potential Multilateral Investment Court System

27/02/2017 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments

The European Commission is pushing ahead with its Multilateral Investment Court (MIC) project, but called requests to eliminate specialised investor protection mechanisms unrealistic during a dedicated meeting with stakeholders in Brussels today.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Themes, Venues, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Europe, IP Law, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

South Centre Paper Sees IP In Free Trade Agreements Interfering With UN SDGs

27/02/2017 by Kim Treanor for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

A new paper from the intergovernmental South Centre argues that intellectual property provisions in recent free trade agreements would impair countries trying to fulfil the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Image Credits: South Centre

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Bilateral/Regional Negotiations, Development, English, Health & IP, Human Rights, Lobbying, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy, Technical Cooperation/ Technology Transfer, United Nations - other

WHO Issues First List Of Potential Deadly Bacteria If No New Antibiotics Are Found

27/02/2017 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

Microbial resistance to antibiotics has been rising and the world is now facing the serious possibility of falling back to the days when infectious diseases were hardly treatable. The World Health Organization today published a list of bacteria for which new antibiotics are most urgently needed, to help with the race against time, as the medical world is running out of treatment options.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, English, Health & IP, Innovation/ R&D, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, WHO

IP Scholars Warn About Stringent Copyright Rules In Asian RCEP Agreement

27/02/2017 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

As negotiations take place this week in Japan for a free trade agreement covering the Asia-Pacific region, a group of intellectual property scholars is calling for the public interest to be clearly considered in the copyright rules of the future agreement.

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Asia/Pacific, Bilateral/Regional Negotiations, Copyright Policy, English, Human Rights, Lobbying, Regional Policy

Will US Follow UK Lead In Case On Copyright And Interoperability?

27/02/2017 by Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

In a case pitting copyright protection against competition, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit must decide whether World Programming Limited (WPL) violated SAS Institute’s copyright by copying software interfaces that enable interoperability. WPL has already won the argument in the UK and in Europe’s highest court. The case has drawn strong support on both sides from the tech sector and a civil liberties group.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Europe, IP Law, North America, Regional Policy

WIPO Committee On Protection Of Folklore: Shall We Dance?

24/02/2017 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments

It is generally held that traditional cultural expressions reflect communities’ cultural and social background and include elements of their heritage. For indigenous and local communities, those expressions of their traditional culture are vital. Next week, World Intellectual Property Organization committee members are expected to advance on a draft treaty text to protect those expressions, and look for ways to agree on basic principles, such as what the treaty should protect, how, and who it should protect.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge, WIPO

More Transparency In Medical Product Prices Discussed At Event

24/02/2017 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments

The lack of access to medical products has spread from being a developing country problem to a global one as prices are now too high even for developed country patients and health systems for some medicines. An event at the Graduate Institute Global Public Health Centre yesterday was an opportunity to explore these issues.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, English, Europe, Finance, Health & IP, Innovation/ R&D, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy, WHO

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