WIPO Delegates Trying To Find Consensus On Technical Assistance And Designs 30/05/2013 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Members of a World Intellectual Property Organization committee working towards a treaty to simplify the international registration of industrial designs are finding it difficult to agree whether the draft treaty text should include articles on technical assistance and capacity building, or whether a resolution should be left to a top-level meeting on the subject.
The Design Community’s Current And Future IP Challenges 30/05/2013 by Tiphaine Nunzia Caulier for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment A panel of professionals working in the design industry this week gave their views on the interaction between intellectual property, innovation and design.
Financial IP Exchange To Launch First Contract Offering In June 29/05/2013 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The Intellectual Property Exchange International Inc. (IPXI), the world’s first financial exchange that facilitates non-exclusive licensing and trading of IP rights, will start offering a licence contract in June.
Civil Society Observer At UPOV Gets A Public Face 29/05/2013 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The Association for Plant Breeding for the Benefit of Society (APBREBES) announced that its website is now online and its first newsletter has been issued.
World Health Assembly: IP Considerations Play Key Role In Final Outcomes 28/05/2013 by Rachel Marusak Hermann and Brittany Ngo for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Wrapping up one day early, the 66th World Health Assembly adopted a range of public health resolutions and decisions, some with key intellectual property implications, including a decision to convene a technical meeting on new public health R&D projects, a compromise on advancing the poor quality medicines mechanism, and resolutions on both neglected tropical diseases and noncommunicable diseases. Importantly, the novel coronavirus situation drew attention to WHO’s progress in pandemic influenza preparedness.
Technical Assistance A Challenge For WIPO Treaty On Industrial Designs 28/05/2013 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Another World Intellectual Property Organization committee opened with the prospect of achieving progress on a potential treaty text this week. The committee is trying to establish an instrument that would simplify the international registration of industrial designs.
World Health Assembly: As Members Approve Health R&D Decisions, US Says Time To “Put Our Money Where Our Mouth Is” 27/05/2013 by Rachel Marusak Hermann, Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments Heading into the 66th World Health Assembly, the prospect of a global treaty to address the health needs of developing countries seemed unlikely and years away at best. In a surprising turn in this highly political conversation, the US challenged member states to prove that it could work. That process will start sooner rather than later as members gavelled the resolution and agreed to convene a meeting on health R&D demonstration projects in the next few months.
World Health Assembly: Pandemic Flu Framework Clears Committee 27/05/2013 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Member states gathered at the annual World Health Assembly took note of a report on its pandemic influenza preparedness (PIP) framework amid encouragement by developed countries that standard agreements for transferring materials be completed, and reminders from some developing countries of the need for fair access and benefit-sharing of the resulting treatments.
Focus On Quality For Patients Saves Billions Of Dollars 27/05/2013 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Daniela Bagozzi writes: Ten years of efforts in treatment for priority diseases has yielded impressive results both in terms of lives and dollars saved. To maintain progress in a volatile and financially tight environment countries and the international community will need to increase pressure on quality and healthy generic competition.
World Health Assembly: Committee Breaks Deadlock On Poor Quality Meds Mechanism 26/05/2013 by Rachel Marusak Hermann, Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments Breaking six months of deadlock, WHA members reached a compromise in committee on the issue of which country should preside over the global mechanism on poor quality medicines by supporting Brazil’s proposal to rotate the steering committee chairmanship. The Assembly will likely approve the decision.