IP Critical As Rocky US-Andean Trade Talks Resume 17/10/2005 by Martin Vaughan for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Martin Vaughan for Intellectual Property Watch Washington, DC—With negotiators set to resume work this week, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador are resisting demands by the United States for patent protections that go beyond those enshrined in international trade law in talks toward a U.S.-Andean free trade agreement continuing this fall. At the international level, trade-related […]
Interview With WIPO Deputy Director General Rita Hayes 10/10/2005 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Member governments of the UN World Intellectual Property Organisation at their 26 September to 5 October General Assemblies agreed on a way to proceed with negotiations for a treaty on broadcasters’ rights. They will prepare a “basic proposal,” or draft negotiating text, during 2006 with an eye toward holding a high-level negotiation, known as a […]
Open Source Agreed In UN Information Society Summit Preparations 10/10/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment tradução em português (IP-Watch is not responsible for the accuracy of this translation) Encouragement for the use of free and open source software and open standards for science and technology has quietly worked its way into the draft texts being prepared for the November second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). […] Pages: 1 2
New Committee For WIPO Development Agenda; Patents Reinvigorated 03/10/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment Member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organisation tonight overcame a flare-up in tensions to reach agreement on the future of a proposed WIPO development agenda and the future work of a key patent committee. The final texts of both, which represent the last two sticking points for the 10-day WIPO General Assembly, will be […]
WIPO Negotiators Agree On Way Forward For Broadcasting Treaty 03/10/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The member governments of the World Intellectual Property Organisation today agreed on a plan to negotiate a treaty on the rights of broadcasters by 2007 after two more committee meetings. The proposal before the WIPO General Assembly, meeting from 26 September to 5 October, was whether and when to schedule a diplomatic conference (a high-level […]
WIPO General Assembly Calls For Action On Financial, Personnel Concerns 02/10/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment The member states of the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organisation on Friday called on the organisation to act on independent recommendations to clean up its financial and personnel management practices. The recommendations were made earlier this year by the independent U.N. inspection team whose investigation in late 2004 found fault with WIPO’s practices. The WIPO […]
WIPO Negotiators Seek Final Agreement On Key Issues At General Assembly 01/10/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment Government negotiators at the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organisation General Assemblies continued their work into the weekend to try to reach agreement on key outstanding issues. All discussions of these issues have reverted to closed, informal meetings, in contrast to the weeklong formal meetings open to accredited non-governmental observers. Since the assemblies began on 26 […]
US Holds Out On Extension Of High-Level Meeting On Development Agenda 30/09/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment After a week of meetings at the World Intellectual Property Organisation General Assembly, the United States is possibly alone in firmly objecting to the continuation of a high-level meeting on a proposal for a WIPO development agenda. The proposal for cross-cutting reform of WIPO toward developing country concerns was first introduced at the General Assemblies […]
U.S. Patent Reform Effort Narrowed in Congress; Could Resurface In Supreme Court 29/09/2005 by Sarah Stirland for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment By Sarah Lai Stirland for Intellectual Property Watch A wall of opposition from the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and independent inventor communities this year gutted some of the most controversial provisions from an ambitious patent reform bill introduced in July in the U.S. House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the U.S. Congress. But one of the […]
WIPO’s Future Work, Past Credibility On Table At General Assemblies 26/09/2005 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The top officials of the World Intellectual Property Organisation member states this week gather for their annual meeting facing an unusual number of critical issues for the U.N. body, several of which involve the credibility of the organisation itself. The issues before the WIPO General Assemblies, which range from global patent harmonisation sought by its […]