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Interview With Charles Gore, Medicines Patent Pool Executive Director

22/03/2019 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

Charles Gore took over the role of Executive Director at the Medicines Patent Pool in July 2018, just after its board decided to greatly expand its mandate into essential medicines. Nine months into his term, IP-Watch’s William New talked with him about his role and how the expansion is going.

Filed Under: Features, Inside Views, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, English, Health & IP, Other International Orgs, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, WHO

WHO Governance Questioned As It Adds World Health Assembly Agenda Item On Biodiversity

01/02/2019 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments

The World Health Organization today admitted to an unusual procedure to set up a debate on the health implications of a UN treaty on sharing of benefits from genetic resources. The new agenda item proposed by the WHO director general was accepted by the WHO Board today, but with member states questioning the governance of the move.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Biodiversity/Genetic Resources/Biotech, English, Health & IP, Other International Orgs, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, WHO

OECD Report Presents Policies To Balance Innovation With Access To Medicines

05/12/2018 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released a new report that presents policy options for countries to strike a better balance between promoting financial incentives for pharmaceutical innovation and ensuring affordable access to medicines. Finding this balance, the report explains, will be essential for ensuring the sustainability of health systems.

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, English, Finance, Health & IP, Innovation/ R&D, Other International Orgs, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets

Key Hepatitis C Drug Licensed To Medicines Patent Pool, Access Expanded For LMICs

12/11/2018 by David Branigan, Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments

A key drug to treat hepatitis C has been licensed to the Medicines Patent Pool, enabling generic production and expanding affordable access to the drug in low and middle-income countries, excluding the very largest. The agreement between the Pool and AbbVie had been over a year in the making, MPP Executive Director Charles Gore told Intellectual Property Watch.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, English, Finance, Health & IP, Human Rights, Other International Orgs, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, WHO

Report: Is China Gaining The Inside Track On Standards For “Internet Of Things” Technology?

31/10/2018 by David Branigan, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

A new US private sector report asserts that China is gaining the inside track on international standard-setting for “Internet of Things” technology, and offers strategies for the United States to keep competitive in the marketplace by maintaining influence over standard-setting while protecting data security.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, English, Innovation/ R&D, Lobbying, New Technologies, North America, Other International Orgs, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy

Multi-Agency Conference Addresses Positive Aspects Of ‘Respect For IP’

26/10/2018 by Linda Daniels for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Conference delegates at the Respect for IP international conference held in South Africa this week were participants in a series of top-level panel discussions about the conference theme that included views about balancing intellectual property’s economic value with achieving social development goals.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, Africa, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Other International Orgs, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, WIPO, WTO/TRIPS

WEF: US Most Competitive, But Idea Generation, Agility Will Shape Future Growth

17/10/2018 by John Zarocostas for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

The generation of ideas, entrepreneurial culture, openness, and agility – by companies, policymakers, and workers – to adapt quickly and embrace change and not resist it, are factors that will have the greatest impact in driving growth and competitiveness in the years ahead in a world increasingly transformed by new, digital technologies, a report by the World Economic Forum said.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, English, Innovation/ R&D, Other International Orgs, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets

The Global Multilateral Benefit-Sharing Mechanism: Where Will Be The Bretton Woods Of The 21st Century?

05/10/2018 by Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments

Joseph Henry Vogel writes: Bretton Woods is the name of a place and also of a system. Bretton Woods-the-place boasts the Mount Washington Hotel and majestic views of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Bretton Woods-the-system is the set of financial rules drafted during an international conference held at the hotel from 1 to 22 July 1944 [1]. The system created monetary order and allowed postwar recovery. For economists, Bretton Woods signifies the system. Its success illustrates how economic thinking can penetrate the political sphere and make lasting change. John Maynard Keynes, the Darwin of economics, led the British delegation.

Filed Under: Features, Inside Views, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Biodiversity/Genetic Resources/Biotech, Development, English, Environment, Finance, Other International Orgs, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge, UPOV / CBD

Hackers For Good, Gathering Stakeholders To Find Answers To Cyberspace Challenges

18/09/2018 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

For a number of people, the word hacker means bad news. However, if some hackers have malevolent intentions, there are also hackers for good, and their skills were put to the challenge last week as they tried to save a fictitious city fallen into the hands of a group of cyber terrorists. The challenge was part of a two-day event organised by a young Geneva-based non-governmental organisation seeking to raise awareness about digital trust and bring accountability to cyberspace.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, English, ITU/ICANN, Information and Communications Technology/ Broadcasting, New Technologies, Other International Orgs, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

Interpol Leads Widespread Operation Against Counterfeit Goods

12/07/2018 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

The international police agency Interpol today announced that it coordinated a massive sweep of arrests and seizures of tons of fake goods across four continents in recent months.

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Other International Orgs, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

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