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US IP Stakeholders Seek To Strengthen Public Support For IP, Ensure Future US Competitiveness

04/12/2018 by David Branigan, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

NEW YORK — United States intellectual property stakeholders from academic, business and legal backgrounds gathered recently to discuss how to increase public support to strengthen the intellectual property rights system in the US, in light of China’s steady rise in numbers of patent and trademark filings. US IP stakeholders argued that developing public awareness and understanding of IP is key to building this support, with some holding diverging views on how to go about this.

Filed Under: Features, IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Finance, Innovation/ R&D, Lobbying, North America, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

China Pulling The Cart To Propel Global IP Filings To New Heights, Trademarks Skyrocketing – WIPO

03/12/2018 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

Global intellectual property filing numbers kept rising unabated in 2017, as China continued to pull the numbers upwards. The World Intellectual Property Indicators 2018, published today, also showed what the head of the World Intellectual Property Organization qualified as extraordinary growth in trademark applications. And he remarked on the increasing importance of intellectual property in the contemporary economy.

Filed Under: Features, IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, Development, English, Innovation/ R&D, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Technical Cooperation/ Technology Transfer, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, WIPO

Fight Over .Amazon: ACTO Countries Cancel Meeting With ICANN CEO

29/11/2018 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

The fight over delegating the .amazon top-level domain to Amazon LLC is not over. But the effort of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to cut a deal between the regional Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (ACTO) and online retailer Amazon has failed, according to ICANN CEO Göran Marby. [updated]

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, English, ITU/ICANN, Information and Communications Technology/ Broadcasting, Latin America/Caribbean, North America, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

German Hate Speech Legislation Receives Mixed Review At German Internet Governance Forum

28/11/2018 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

BERLIN — Germany’s controversial hate speech legislation is working well, a representative of the German Ministry of Justice said during a panel today (27 November) at the German national Internet Governance Forum in Berlin.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Copyright Policy, English, Europe, ITU/ICANN, Information and Communications Technology/ Broadcasting, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

Panellists To CBD: Funds Needed To Save Biodiversity, Genetic Resources Not In Nagoya Protocol Should Be Included

27/11/2018 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

SHARM-EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – The access and benefit sharing protocol of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity is based on bilateral agreements between providers and users of genetic resources. There are, however, many cases where genetic resources are dispersed, and difficult to attribute to only one location. The issue is being discussed at the biennial meeting of the CBD member states, in particular the possibility of a global multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism to address those genetic resources not yet covered by the protocol. A side event yesterday explored the possible conditions and needs for establishing such a mechanism, and called for urgent action.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, Biodiversity/Genetic Resources/Biotech, Copyright Policy, English, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge, UPOV / CBD, United Nations - other

US Section 301 Update On China: Systematic Espionage, Plundering Of IP In US, EU, Australia, Japan

20/11/2018 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 4 Comments

The Office of the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) latest update of its “Section 301” investigation of China’s alleged theft and manipulation of US intellectual property rights, technology transfer, and trade secrets released today contains a litany of cases of China’s nefarious behaviour in the US as well as Europe, Japan, Australia and elsewhere.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Themes, Venues, Bilateral/Regional Negotiations, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Finance, North America, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, WTO/TRIPS

Convention On Biological Diversity Biennial Meeting Looks At How New Technologies Will Affect Its Objectives

20/11/2018 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments

Member countries of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity are meeting in Egypt for its biennial conference of the parties, and the conference of the parties of its protocol on access and benefit sharing, until the end of November. New technologies are high on the agenda of the meeting, such as synthetic biology and genetic sequence information of genetic resources, and how they will impact the convention’s objectives. Delegates are also expected to discuss a potential global multilateral benefit-sharing mechanism, and criteria for international specialised instruments of access and benefit-sharing which could substitute the protocol’s obligations in certain cases.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, Biodiversity/Genetic Resources/Biotech, Copyright Policy, Development, English, Environment, Health & IP, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge, UPOV / CBD, United Nations - other

EU High Court Rejection Of Copyrights For Food Tastes Worries Rights Holders

15/11/2018 by Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

A food’s taste cannot be pinned down with enough precision and objectivity to make it copyrightable under EU law, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) said on 13 November. The decision creates a new standard that could be applied to all European copyright works, but would likely be the same under US law, intellectual property lawyers said.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Europe, IP Law, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge

China’s Xi Jinping Signals Higher Focus On IP, Market Opening To Ease US-Sino Tensions, But Global Leadership Friction In Innovation To Persist

15/11/2018 by John Zarocostas for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

SHANGHAI, China — The President of China, Xi Jinping, in a keynote address on 5 November to political and business leaders attending the opening of the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai sent a strong diplomatic signal that Beijing will push ahead with further opening up of the economy to more international competition. In a move to try and ease US-Sino tensions Xi also indicated China will take proactive steps to boost protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs), including harsher penalties against violators – a major grievance for the United States and the pivotal issue in the escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

Filed Under: Features, IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, Asia/Pacific, Bilateral/Regional Negotiations, Copyright Policy, Development, Enforcement, English, Finance, Innovation/ R&D, New Technologies, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, WTO/TRIPS

IP Experts Discuss US Congressional Changes, Prospects For IP Legislation

13/11/2018 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

NEW YORK – Major changes are coming to the makeup of the US Congress from the perspective of intellectual property policy, and while it may translate into more patent-friendly officials, the prospect for legislation is uneven, a panel of IP experts told a private sector conference here last week.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Finance, IP Law, Innovation/ R&D, Lobbying, North America, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

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