Lets Move Ahead With IP-Watch 2.0: We Need Your Input! 04/10/2019 by Carolyn Deere, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment What’s new in the international policymaking on intellectual property, innovation and information? What’s at stake at this year’s @WIPO Assemblies? This is first year since 2004 that @IP-Watch has not been at the #WIPOGA to bring you the latest news on critical policy deliberations and outcomes, new initiatives and emerging issues. The good news is […]
WIPO Development Agenda: Developing Countries Submit New Proposals 06/04/2005 by Carolyn Deere, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment On the eve of high-level meetings next week on development and intellectual property, the fourteen co-sponsors of the proposal for the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s new Development Agenda today submitted detailed elaborations of their proposals for incorporating development into WIPO’s work. The fourteen so-called Friends of Development asked the WIPO Secretariat to distribute the proposal […]
New Editor-in-Chief Appointed 14/01/2005 by Carolyn Deere, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Intellectual Property Watch is delighted to announce the appointment of William New as its new Editor-in-Chief. William will take up the reins of Intellectual Property Watch on January 17, 2005 – and will have overall responsibility for all Intellectual Property Watch reporting as well as its strategic direction and management. William has been on the […]
WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Discussions End in Controversy, Confusion 22/11/2004 by Carolyn Deere, Intellectual Property Watch 4 Comments Discussions last week in WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights (SCCR) on a proposed treaty that would expand protections for broadcasting organisations ended in heated debate about whether the Chair’s report of the meeting adequately reflected the views of all Member States. The Chair’s departure in the final moments of the meeting from […]
Editorial 04/11/2004 by Carolyn Deere, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Dear Reader, Welcome to the first issue of Intellectual Property Watch! Established in the summer of 2004, Intellectual Property Watch is a journalistic initiative created to report on the interests and ‘behind the scenes’ dynamics which influence the design and implementation of intellectual property policies. The goal of Intellectual Property Watch is straightforward—to promote transparency, […]