Anti-Counterfeiting Initiative Aimed At Protecting African Medical Industries 08/08/2008 by Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch West African people should establish a medical anti-counterfeiting task force to promote local herbal medicines by protecting indigenous knowledge and genetic property and establishing benefit-sharing systems in addition to tackling the spread of cheap, fake medicines that are causing an unnecessary loss of life, according to the communiqué […]
International Seed Treaty’s Goals Of Biodiversity, Food Security Tough To Implement 07/08/2008 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Catherine Saez As the world struggles with a global food crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) is working to support biodiversity as a way to contribute to food security. To that end, the FAO has launched an initiative to ensure that this global genetic diversity is accessible, in the […]
New US Voucher Prize System For Neglected Diseases Launches Amid Doubts 06/08/2008 by Tatum Anderson for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Tatum Anderson for Intellectual Property Watch As a novel prize system to encourage the development of treatments for diseases that disproportionately affect patients in developing countries launches in the United States next month, concerns are already being voiced as to whether it will provide the right incentives for desperately-needed drugs. Under system, drug developers […]
Global Patent Filings Continue Rise But May Level Off; Smaller Nations Slipping 05/08/2008 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By William New Patent filings continue to rise globally, especially in a few nations, as do problems of high-volume application processing and quality assurance. But more attention is needed to bring smaller economies into the patent system, and patenting may slow down with tough economic times, officials at the World Intellectual Property Organization said last week.
Renouvellement du mandat de la CNUCED et renforcement de la collaboration dans le domaine de la propriété intellectuelle 04/08/2008 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Par Catherine Saez Les questions liées à la propriété intellectuelle apparaissent comme un objectif clé des politiques mises en oeuvre par la Conférence des Nations Unies pour le commerce et le développement (CNUCED) au regard de la décision prise lors de la 12ème Conférence quadriennale, qui a eu lieu en avril, de renouveler son mandat […]
Aumentan las actividades de PI de la UNCTAD gracias al mandato renovado; mayor colaboración 04/08/2008 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Por Catherine Saez Las cuestiones relacionadas con la propiedad intelectual (PI) parecen ser un claro enfoque de políticas de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo (UNCTAD), ya que la 12.va conferencia cuatrienal de la UNCTAD celebrada en abril reconfirmó el mandato sobre PI; la organización fue nombrada por otros dos organismos […]
ACTA: Negotiations Advance ‘Behind The Curtain’; Many Concerns 02/08/2008 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Representatives of industry and the public as well as intellectual property law experts are puzzled by the ongoing secrecy under which negotiations on the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) are being held. The ACTA negotiations, which could result in widely applicable escalated rules on piracy and counterfeiting, appeared […]
US: We Will Not Give Up Oversight Of Internet Domain Name Root Zone 31/07/2008 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch The Bush administration has no intention of giving up United States oversight role of the management of the central root zone of the internet domain name system (DNS), the essential database storing information on how to reach domain names on the global internet. In a letter to the […]
Abrupt End To Ministerial Leaves Questions On Future Of IP Issues At WTO 31/07/2008 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments By William New The World Trade Organization Doha Round is over, and bitterly, at least for now, but negotiators left town with the general consensus that hard-earned work to date should not be lost and that there might be resumption of talks sometime in the future. The fate of intellectual property issues at the WTO […]
Nokia-Qualcomm Settlement Boosts Sharing, Ends Costly Patent War 31/07/2008 by Tatum Anderson for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment By Tatum Anderson for Intellectual Property Watch Nokia and Qualcomm, the two mobile phone equipment manufacturers engaged in a costly patent war that spanned three years and three continents settled their differences last week. However, questions still remain over the principles they fought about in courts around the world. The companies agreed a new intellectual […]