منظمة الجمارك العالمية تنظر في “آلية الحوار” بشأن التقليد والتركيز الصريح على الصحة العامة 23/06/2009 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment ستحاول منظمة الجمارك العالمية هذا الأسبوع التوصل إلى اتفاق بشأن فريق بديل مخفف ضد التقليد والقرصنة من شأنه أن يبدد القلق إزاء التجاوز من قبل موظفي الجمارك. وستنظر المنظمة أيضا في اقتراح يتعلق بإضافة تركيز صريح على الصحة العامة والسلامة إلى أنشطتها المتعلقة بالإنفاذ.
EU, US Consumer Groups Issue Resolution On Enforcement; Demand Role In ACTA 23/06/2009 by Robinson Esalimba for Intellectual Property Watch and William New 15 Comments An international coalition of consumer groups has issued a resolution calling into question global enforcement policy and offering core principles for policymakers to consider in setting new enforcement standards.
WCO Considers New ‘Dialogue Mechanism’ On Counterfeiting, Explicit Focus On Public Health 20/06/2009 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The World Customs Organization this week will try to reach agreement on a softened replacement group against counterfeiting and piracy that may defuse concerns of overreaching by customs officials. It also will consider a proposal to add an explicit focus on public health and safety to its enforcement activities.
Santa Cruz To Head Chilean IP Office; Kappos Named USPTO Director 19/06/2009 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch and William New Leave a Comment A well-liked and influential IP policymaker in Geneva will head Chile’s national IP office, a US lawyer responsible for perhaps the world’s biggest industry patent portfolio will head the US IP office, and a fixture in the Geneva international trade negotiating and lobbying community is heading home to Canada.
WIPO Works Out Plans For Staff Separations, Financial Disclosure 19/06/2009 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment After months of private consultations, it was no surprise that the World Intellectual Property Organization Coordination Committee – the 83-member executive body – easily approved the director general’s new cabinet this week, albeit with a few notes for the future. And a previously prepared plan for financial disclosure by upper staff also sailed through. But the bulk of discussions over the intense two-day meeting were on details of a proposal by the director general to encourage a reduction in staff in the face of the global economic crisis, which members approved after long consideration and some modifications.
WIPO Appoints New Top Officials, Readies Policies On Conflicts Of Interest, Staff Cuts 15/06/2009 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s executive body on Monday approved a set of seven most senior officials at the organisation to join the director general late this year. Monday’s Coordination Committee meeting also will address new policies on financial disclosure and conflicts of interest among top WIPO officials, and voluntary staff departures in the face of smaller budgets.
USTR Revives Focus On ACTA; Talks Set For July 12/06/2009 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The Office of the United States Trade Representative on Friday said it had reviewed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) under negotiation and has decided to move ahead on the treaty. Negotiating countries will meet in Morocco in July, and the targeted completion is still 2010.
GAVI, Gates Deploy Industry-Favoured Incentive For Vaccines To Poor Countries 12/06/2009 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Major public health funders have alighted upon an industry-favoured approach of guaranteeing certain prices to industry to make vaccines available to least-developed country markets.
Heated Debates Over US-Free Internet 10/06/2009 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Warnings about a possible split of the single root zone underlying the global internet have been made by internet governance experts outside the United States following a hearing of the US congressional Subcommittee on Communication Technologies and the Internet on the future of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the internet’s technical […]
Pirate Party To Enter European Parliament 08/06/2009 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The Swedish Pirate Party harvested 7.1 percent of the Swedish vote in preliminary results from the European Parliament elections on Sunday, 7 June, according to official sources. The Party aims to fundamentally reform copyright law, get rid of the patent system and ensure citizens’ right to privacy. According to the Parliament’s provisional seat repartition, the […]