A Special Day: WIPO’s Vision Gets A Little Fuzzy01/04/2011 by Martin Frobisher for Intellectual Property Watch 1 CommentIn a surprise and fully uncorroborated development, it appears that World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Francis Gurry has been named a new contributor to an illustrious IP blog. The announcement came at the same time as news that WIPO will likely embark on wishing for an annual crackdown list of global IP blogs deemed to be inadequately living up to the highest levels of intellectual property protection and decorum.
Semicolon Leads To Breakthrough In Long-Stalled Negotiations01/04/2010 by Intellectual Property Watch 3 CommentsApplause burst from the plenary chamber this week as delegates at last found, in a semicolon, the solution to a long-running and at times sharply divided multilateral negotiation.
G20 Envisions World IP Court; WIPO Hopeful Host01/04/2009 by Martin Frobisher for Intellectual Property Watch 16 CommentsLONDON—Leaders of the world’s largest economies struck a closed-door deal late Tuesday to create an international court for intellectual property litigation in a move sources said they deemed a best effort to turn back global economic demise.
