Panel: More Balance Needed In IP And Trade; Disclosure May Not Be Enough 29/01/2008 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Catherine Saez A more balanced international regime for intellectual property rights and trade is needed to rectify the current system, which too strongly favours developed countries, developing country panellists said at a recent event. But some say that a proposed requirement to disclose the origin of genetic material and associated traditional knowledge in patent […]
La justice s’interroge sur la constitutionnalité du système brésilien de pipeline 29/01/2008 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Par Claudia Jurberg pour Intellectual Property Watch RIO DE JANEIRO – Des institutions de la société civile ont fait part au Procureur général, Antônio Fernando Barros e Silva e Souza, de leurs doutes sur la conformité à la Consititution de l’un des aspects de la loi brésilienne relative à la propriété industrielle connu sous le […]
Challenge Raised To Constitutionality Of Brazilian Pipeline Patents 22/01/2008 by Claudia Jurberg for Intellectual Property Watch 5 Comments By Claudia Jurberg for Intellectual Property Watch RIO DE JANEIRO – Doubt about the constitutionality of an aspect of the Brazilian Industrial Property Law has been raised by civil society institutions to Attorney General Antônio Fernando Barros e Silva e Souza. Articles 230 and 231 of Brazil’s Law 9.279/96 created the mechanism known as the […]
Diferencias en la aplicacion del Acuerdo sobre los ADPIC por parte de países en desarrollo 22/12/2007 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Por Catherine Saez Según los oradores en un reciente evento organizado por el Centro del Sur, existen diferencias significativas en la aplicación por parte de países en desarrollo del Acuerdo sobre los Aspectos de los Derechos de la Propiedad Intelectual relacionados con el Comercio (ADPIC) de la Organización Mundial del Comercio y del uso de […]
WIPO Consults On Protecting Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources 19/12/2007 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments By Catherine Saez How best to protect traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expressions and genetic resources against misappropriation and misuse was the main theme of a recent community consultation in the form of a roundtable organised by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The WIPO event on 10-12 December came in response to “the strong level […]
WTO Members Continue Debate On Geographical Indications Register 17/12/2007 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By William New Members of the World Trade Organization on Friday continued a longstanding debate over the creation of a register for geographical indications (GIs), products whose names derive from places. Debate centred on a recent compromise proposal from European countries driving the effort to establish the register, who received new support from countries seeking […]
China, US Hold High-Level Discussions On IP Issues 17/12/2007 by Liza Porteus Viana, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch China and the United States last week held high-level discussions on a host of topics including intellectual property rights, reaching agreements to cooperate on IP rights protection, stopping counterfeit medicines and devices, reducing copying of patented biotechnology, and sharing innovation. The 18th US-China Joint Commission on China […]
New Push Emerges For An Indian Patent Database 17/12/2007 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments By Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch Two years after India’s implementation of international trade rules on intellectual property rights, a lawyers group is rekindling a decade-old push to organise India’s patent applications into an electronic database. IP law blog (“blawg”) Spicy IP has sent a petition to the India Patent Office (IPO). Citing India’s […]
WHO To Continue High-Priority Revision Of Pandemic Flu System 14/12/2007 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment By William New Members of the World Health Organization worked for days recently under the steady gaze of the WHO director general in an attempt to develop a new framework for the global influenza-sharing system designed as a safeguard against a pandemic.
Members Seek To Raise TRIPs Amendments In WTO Negotiations 05/12/2007 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By William New World Trade Organization members seeking changes to international rules on trade and intellectual property rights moved this week to include the debate on their proposals in an upcoming deadline for the broader trade negotiations at the WTO. But opponents continued to resist moving the issues to negotiation. At issue is a proposal […]