World AIDS Day Brings Calls For Legislative Caution, Reform 01/12/2010 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Canada’s Parliament has the power to save lives of millions afflicted with HIV around the world if they will act to ease intellectual property-related restrictions on their access to medicines, Canadian civil society groups said today.
UN Climate Change Talks Start With Little Faith From Observers 29/11/2010 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Today in Cancun, Mexico, the United Nations climate change conference opened with hopes of finding consensual solutions for the global environmental threat and its consequences. After the disappointing results of last year’s conference in Copenhagen, echoes of uncertainty on the outcome of the Cancun conference are being heard from many sides.
WIPO Development Agenda Coordination Seizes Up; Projects Approved 27/11/2010 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment As the first flurries of snow gave Geneva a foretaste of winter, delegates yesterday ended a week of negotiations in the World Intellectual Property Organization committee overseeing implementation of the WIPO Development Agenda. They agreed on some projects and postponed discussions on others until the next session, but remained frozen without agreement on details of the coordination mechanism for Agenda implementation. Numerous corridor discussions and informal meetings did not help the process.
Friction Arises Over WIPO Development Agenda Coordination 25/11/2010 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization this week are working through details of projects related to boosting the UN agency’s development orientation. But simultaneous closed, informal meetings on a mechanism for coordinating WIPO Development Agenda activities have proven more difficult, as developed countries try to contain the spread of the development committee’s influence – and work through their own differences, according to sources.
WIPO Works On Its Development Agenda Implementation This Week 22/11/2010 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Members of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization this week are in discussions on how to ensure that WIPO activities are development-oriented. A particular focus will be the implementation of a Development Agenda coordination mechanism approved at the last session in May. Also new on the table this week is an agenda item on development-related issues and a proposal for a new project on cooperation between developing countries.
Making The Case For Responsible Science For A Safe Environment 19/11/2010 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Innovation or “jugaad” has always driven the Indian economy. However, the last decade has been witness to an emerging paradigm shift to high-quality value-added innovation, writes industry lawyer Sunita K. Sreedharan.
حكاية لقارئ من ضعاف البصر 11/11/2010 by Inside Views, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment بكل احترام يسعدني أن أضع تجربتي الشخصية , بين يدي كل من يهمه أن يطلع عليه متمنين أن تكون إفهاما متواضعا لأجل الوصول إلى اتفاقية دولية تيسر الاطلاع على المعرفة لذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة. د/ محمد محسن النجار يكتب تجربته
A Tale Of A Visually Impaired Reader 11/11/2010 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment I’d like to introduce myself and put my personal experience in the hands of all concerned parties and people, hoping that this will help to give a better comprehension (explain) about the situation of blind people and to help reach an international treaty that will facilitate access to knowledge for people with visual impairments, writes law professor Mohammed Mohsin Abrahim El Nagaar of Alexandria University.
WIPO Copyright Committee Tackles Visually Impaired Access, Other Exceptions 08/11/2010 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 4 Comments The World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) is meeting this week in an attempt to advance proposals to improve global access to copyrighted works, following a disappointing summer meeting that ended without agreement. This week’s meeting also includes renewed discussions of proposed treaties on broadcasters’ rights and rights over audiovisual performances.
First Committee On WIPO Standards Ends In Vote For Suspension 01/11/2010 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Disagreement over the mandate of a newly-formed World Intellectual Property Organization committee resulted in a vote to suspend the meeting with no conclusions last Friday evening.