Brandowners Warn Against Cybersquatting, User Confusion From New Internet Domains 24/06/2008 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch PARIS – Some think the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers should have moved much faster to introduce new names in the internet to join the likes of .com and .org. Others moan about the widespread trademark infringement they expect to occur when the private internet governance […]
WIPO Patent Committee Names Chair, Begins Focus On Global Status Report 23/06/2008 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Kaitlin Mara The World Intellectual Property Organization committee charged with discussing international patent law kicked off its first formal meeting in three years today with the election of a Chilean chair and the start of work on a WIPO secretariat report on the global patent system that could form the basis for future work. […]
Technical Assistance A Key Point Of Discussion At TRIPS Council 19/06/2008 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment By Kaitlin Mara Uganda this week submitted a plan for addressing its priority needs on trade and intellectual property to the World Trade Organization committee on IP, making the nation the first least-developed country to lay out a detailed strategy for implementing its obligations under WTO rules. Update: Uganda’s document on trade and intellectual property […]
Standing Committee On The Law Of Patents To Reconvene After Two Year Hiatus 19/06/2008 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment By Kaitlin Mara The World Intellectual Property Organization committee charged with coordinating relationships between national patent regimes will meet next week for the first time since an informal session in April 2006. It is the first formal convening since June 2005. The bulk of the meeting will be spent discussing future work for the committee, […]
WTO TRIPS Council To Meet Amid Broader Negotiation Backdrop 13/06/2008 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Kaitlin Mara The World Trade Organization intellectual property committee will meet next week in the midst of a tense round of trade talks where efforts to move closer to consensus are continuing and the inclusion of some IP-related issues remains under debate. The WTO Council for Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which administers the […]
New Stirrings On EU Patent Front In The Name Of Small Business 13/06/2008 by David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By David Cronin for Intellectual Property Watch BRUSSELS – The ‘fragmented’ nature of Europe’s patent application system is harming small firms, a Brussels event has been told amid new efforts to harmonise it. Ever since the early 1970s, the European Community – now Union – has been discussing the possibility of introducing a single patent […]
Music Performers In US Policy Fight For Payment From Broadcasters 12/06/2008 by Liza Porteus Viana, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment [Note: new Commerce Department letter added 16 June] By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC – Performance-rights groups and broadcasters went head-to-head Wednesday as the two sides testified before the United States Congress as to whether conventional radio broadcasters should pay performance musicians if the broadcasters play their music. US lawmakers have […]
Opponents Say Inclusion Of IP Issues Would Set Back WTO Talks 10/06/2008 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Kaitlin Mara A small group of countries opposing the inclusion of intellectual property-related issues in World Trade Organization negotiations has issued their response to an earlier “non-paper” that had called for IP issues to be integrated with the upcoming horizontal, or all-inclusive, negotiations at the WTO. “We … wish to express our strong opposition […]
Reports On WTO IP Negotiations Released 09/06/2008 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment By Kaitlin Mara The World Trade Organization on Monday released two reports on the state of play in negotiations on a register for geographical indications (GIs) – product names associated with places and characteristics – as well as the possible extension of the stricter protections for wines and spirits GIs to other goods, in tandem […]
Final Text Of World Health Assembly IP And Health Resolution, Strategy Online 06/06/2008 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The World Health Assembly “global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property,” is now online. The document, WHA61.21, has been called “the most important document since [the] Doha” Declaration on IP and public health. Said by World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan to be “a breakthrough that will benefit […]