Coordination Tops Issues At WIPO Development Agenda Meeting 17/11/2009 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Deciding on a mechanism to ensure the effective implementation of the World Intellectual Property Organization Development Agenda will be the biggest area of discussion at this week’s WIPO meeting on IP and development, sources have said. But discussion also will focus on specific implementation projects.
Brazil Issues Retaliation List Of US Products; IP-Protected Items In Next Round 17/11/2009 by Claudia Jurberg for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Brazil has announced the list of 222 American products that could suffer retaliation with tariff rates of more than 100 percent of the value when imported to Brazil. The list could be followed by another including potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in non-tariff items related to intellectual property rights such as lower-priced patented pharmaceuticals.
Challenge To GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com Loses WIPO Dispute 10/11/2009 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 5 Comments Conservative US radio talk show host Glenn Beck, known for bad-mouthing others on radio and opposition television station Fox News, has lost a case at the World Intellectual Property Organization trying to force the takedown of website parodying him, www.GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com.
Eduardo Pisani Of Bristol-Myers Squibb Is New IFPMA Director General 10/11/2009 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations has appointed a new director general, Eduardo Pisani, to take office 1 January 2010.
EU Telecom Package Agreed With Safeguards But Three-Strikes Still Possible 10/11/2009 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment A compromise was found last week between the European Parliament and European Council on “internet access safeguards” in the last remaining open issue in the European Union telecommunications package, according to the Parliament. But public interest concerns remain that restrictive punishment measures might still be possible.
US Groups Duel Over Access To ACTA Negotiation 09/11/2009 by Robinson Esalimba for Intellectual Property Watch and William New 7 Comments During the most recent negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in Seoul, Korea on 4-6 November, about which no information is available, US industry and public interest groups issued statements taking widely divergent positions on progress of the talks.
Panel Calls For Disclosure Of Industry Methodology Assessing Losses To Piracy 09/11/2009 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Intellectual property rights enforcement has risen on the global trade and IP agenda, but greater transparency in the evaluation of piracy and counterfeiting and assessments of broader social implications may be needed, according to speakers at a side event last week.
IP Rights In Starting Blocks For Copenhagen, But Issue Still Uncertain 06/11/2009 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment BARCELONA – Weeklong climate negotiations came to an end today, and despite the assurance from most delegations that everything is still possible in the Copenhagen climate change conference in December, many issues remain in doubt. Among them are finance, emissions reduction, technology transfer, and the nature of the agreement to be built in Copenhagen.
WTO To Extend Moratorium On Non-Violation Cases, E-Commerce Taxes 06/11/2009 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment World Trade Organization members reached agreement today to recommend extension of a moratorium on customs duties on electronic commerce, and a moratorium on challenging other WTO members under intellectual property rules for actions not in violation of the WTO, according to a WTO official.
IP Rights In A Quiet Tug-Of-War At UN Climate Change Negotiations 06/11/2009 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments BARCELONA – At this week’s global climate talks, efforts are being made to trim references to intellectual property rights in relation to technology transfer from the body of a non-paper and relegate much of it to an appendix. But developing countries have asked that those measures be brought back into the main text. An updated non-paper should be issued on Friday.