Industry List Of Potential US GIs Released Ahead Of WIPO Meeting 27/04/2013 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment A producers’ group lobbying in favour of geographical indications has issued a preliminary list of candidate GIs in the United States. The list, released just prior to a World Intellectual Property Organization negotiation on a possible instrument on GIs, takes a particular look at American wines.
In “Great Shame,” WIPO Fund For Indigenous Peoples’ Participation Running Dry 26/04/2013 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments The participation of indigenous peoples at the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization has become compromised as the funds allowing the organisation to invite indigenous peoples representatives is running dry. At the outset of this week’s WIPO committee seeking to produce an international instrument providing protection to traditional knowledge, an indigenous panel mapped out international agreements recognising their specific rights.
Anti-Counterfeiters Focus On Organised Crime, Softer Public Message 25/04/2013 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Istanbul – The unsuspecting consumer must above all be protected against counterfeit products, speakers said today at meeting of private sector, intergovernmental and governmental representatives. But increasingly organised crime is dealing the products, and anti-counterfeiting forces need to be as innovative as possible to defeat it. Fortunately, the private sector is ready to step up to help cash-strapped governments, and it is taking the “respect for IP” message to … children.
Global Public-Private Partnerships Against IP Crimes: How Interpol Avoided The Failures Of WCO And WHO 24/04/2013 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Christopher J. Paun writes: Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are often used as a way of increasing public policy options by tapping into private sector resources. This occurs also in the field of intellectual property. There are several examples of Global PPPs against IP crimes – some more successful than others. Some prominent failures received a lot of attention when PPP activities were stopped following controversy about global IP policy.
WIPO Committee Issues Revised Text On Traditional Knowledge Protection 24/04/2013 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment After an intense day of drafting led by member country experts in small groups in closed rooms, the World Intellectual Property Organization secretariat released a new set of draft articles of what could become an international instrument aimed at protecting traditional knowledge.
Protecting Traditional Knowledge: WIPO Members Back To The Drafting Table 22/04/2013 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment World Intellectual Property Organization delegates are meeting once again this week to try to advance a text that could become an international instrument to protect traditional knowledge. Substantial work needs to be done on the draft text, ands developing countries generally favour a legal binding instrument while developed countries would prefer a softer instrument.
Race For WTO Director General Down To Five Candidates 12/04/2013 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The number of candidates seeking to be the next director general of the World Trade Organization has dropped from nine down to five.
Is ICANN Policymaking Around Its Bottom-Up Multistakeholder Process? 12/04/2013 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment This week, registry, registrar and user constituencies at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) complained about what they saw as deviations from the bottom-up multistakeholder process by late additions made to policies or by processes never being laid out to the community for review.
New SMS Tool To Report Non-Tariff Trade Barriers At African Borders 12/04/2013 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Small traders and businesses facing barriers to moving goods across African borders now can send a mobile phone text message alert that could help resolve the problems more quickly.
Debate In Beijing: ICANN As Online Content Regulator? 12/04/2013 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The publication by governments of additional safeguards for new top-level domains at this week‘s 46th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) sparked warnings that the private net management body should avoid becoming a content regulator.