10 Years Of TRIPS And Public Health: An Anniversary To Celebrate? 21/11/2011 by Rachel Marusak Hermann, Intellectual Property Watch 4 Comments It has been 10 years since the World Trade Organization adopted the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health. The declaration highlighting the public health aspects of the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreed at the 2001 WTO ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar was considered a milestone in ensuring greater access to medicines for all.
WIPO Development Committee Completes Work; Creates Technical Cooperation Review Group 18/11/2011 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The World Intellectual Property Organization Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) successfully completed its eighth session tonight, making progress on a range of projects and agreeing to set up an ad hoc working group to examine an external report on the UN agency’s global provision of technical assistance.
Debate At WIPO Over Process For Technical Assistance Review 18/11/2011 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Members of the World Intellectual Property Organization this week are slogging through a series of documents related to intellectual property and development. But one document, an external report on WIPO’s provision of technical cooperation assistance, has given way to a substantive discussion about how to fully address the report’s findings of the need for improvement at the UN agency.
WHO Advisory Group On Pandemic Flu To Meet Next Week 17/11/2011 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment An advisory group on the new World Health Organization framework agreement on pandemic influenza preparedness is preparing to meet for the first time from 21-23 November.
WTO Ministers Asked To Send Message On TRIPS Extension For LDCs 17/11/2011 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The smallest countries in the World Trade Organization may get more time to comply with the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) after an agreement today.
WTO, WHO, WIPO To Discuss TRIPS And Health Declaration 17/11/2011 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The heads of three international organizations in Geneva will address a meeting next week on the subject of 10 years after the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health. The 23 November symposium at the Graduate Institute in Geneva involves a range of top officials and experts on the issue.
Least-Developed Nations Propose Extension Of Deadline To Join TRIPS 16/11/2011 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments Least-developed countries at the World Trade Organization have proposed an extension of the deadline they are facing to comply with a WTO agreement on intellectual property rights. But they left open how much more time they would like after the 2013 deadline.
WIPO Development Committee Kicks Off With Compromise 15/11/2011 by Rachel Marusak Hermann, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The eighth session of the World Intellectual Property Organization Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) opened this week with the close of its seventh session. Committee coordinators were still gathered in negotiations as the eighth session was due to begin on 14 November, hammering out a compromise on proposed meetings on South-South cooperation among developing countries.
UNESCO Creates Fund For Budget Shortfall After US Withholds Dues 11/11/2011 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has set up a fund for donations to support core activities after the United States withheld its dues equalling nearly a quarter of UNESCO’s budget. Already the agency has begun cutting programmes in developing countries, it said.
WHO Group Agrees On New Mechanism To Fight Poor-Quality Medicines 01/11/2011 by Rachel Marusak Hermann, Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments The World Health Organization-led working group of member states addressing “substandard/spurious/falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit” (SSFFC) medical products has reached consensus on a new mechanism to prevent and control SSFFC medical products and associated activities. The creation of the new mechanism comes as the future of WHO involvement in an interagency anti-counterfeiting taskforce is in question.