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EU Committees Amend SPC Manufacturing Waiver, Push Access To Generics, Biosimilars

14/12/2018 by David Branigan, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

The European Parliamentary Committees on Health and Trade have each voted in recent weeks to adopt amendments to the proposed Special Protection Certificate (SPC) manufacturing waiver, an intellectual property exception for the EU generic and biosimilar industry. The amendments include provisions that push the waiver toward increasing EU generic and biosimilar industry competitiveness in EU markets, and improving access for EU patients to affordable medicines. The waiver and amendments still have several hurdles to go, including a vote by the Legal Affairs Committee planned for January.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, English, Europe, Finance, Health & IP, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy

Four Million EU Voters Sign Call Against Upload Filters, Protection Of ‘Snippets’

13/12/2018 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

Ahead of the 5th trilogue meeting on the future copyright regulation between the rapporteurs of the European Parliament, member states and the European Commission on 13 December in Strasbourg, France, copyright activists collected over 4 million signatories to a petition to amend the draft legislation. Meanwhile, a court decision in Germany today puts use of its auxiliary copyright law for press publishers in question.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, English, Europe, Human Rights, ITU/ICANN, Information and Communications Technology/ Broadcasting, Lobbying, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

Experts Call For Global Accountability Mechanism For Access To Essential Medicines

10/12/2018 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

Global health experts, including senior officials at the World Health Organization, are calling for a global accountability mechanism for access to essential medicines, noting that a the lack of data on medicines affordability and national pharmaceutical expenditures has hindered this process, according a recent article published in UK medical journal The Lancet.

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, English, Europe, Health & IP, New Technologies, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy, Technical Cooperation/ Technology Transfer, WHO

European Council Committee Agrees On Higher Protection For Spirit Drinks, Takes GIs Beyond TRIPS

10/12/2018 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

An agriculture committee of the European Council today adopted an agreement on labelling of spirit drinks, giving them higher protection by adding seven years to the World Trade Organization minimum intellectual property standard.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, Biodiversity/Genetic Resources/Biotech, Enforcement, English, Europe, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge, WTO/TRIPS

European Commission Introduces Its Inaugural IP “Watch List”

09/12/2018 by Emmanuel Legrand for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

Echoing the United States’ Special 301 Report on alleged inadequacy of trading partners’ protection of US intellectual property rights, the European Commission has released its first ever Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List, which exposes rogue cyberlockers, stream-ripping sites as well as peer-to-peer and BitTorrent indexing sites among the threats to the EU’s legitimate intellectual property-driven businesses.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Europe, Information and Communications Technology/ Broadcasting, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

The Future Of The Ideas Business – The Rise Of Data-Driven Invention

07/12/2018 by Intellectual Property Watch, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

New ideas are getting harder to find, and with less ideas there is a decline in organisational productivity and economic growth. This isn’t new, nor is the fact that to counterbalance the decline in idea generation, research and development have received and continue to require heavy investment. But with daily news of innovation centres opening up across the globe, the question remains whether initiatives like open innovation, crowdsourcing, or simply putting more scientific brains together will do this investment justice.

Last month, leading representatives of the IP, R&D and technology arenas met in Switzerland to discuss a technology-based alternative to human only idea generation. Hosted by data-driven invention company Iprova, the 2nd Data-Driven Invention Forum saw attendees from companies, such as Panasonic, Philips and DuPont as well as many other global organisations explore the future of innovation and the role data-driven invention plays in it. Here are some of the conclusions of the conference.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Contributors, English, Europe, Innovation/ R&D, New Technologies, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy

EU Members Push For Private Censorship Of Terrorist Content On The Internet

06/12/2018 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 3 Comments

Big platform providers and small hosters alike shall be obliged to censor, according to a draft regulation presented by the European Commission in mid-September and accepted by EU member states at their Council meeting today.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Europe, Human Rights, Information and Communications Technology/ Broadcasting, Lobbying, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

Google, YouTube Accused Of Disinformation, Scaremongering By European Authors

05/12/2018 by Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

European creators are alleging a scaremongering campaign by YouTube, and more than 30 entities representing creators in France say Google and YouTube are leading a massive fake information campaign against the European copyright directive currently under discussion in order to protect their commercial interests.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Europe, ITU/ICANN, Information and Communications Technology/ Broadcasting, Lobbying, North America, Regional Policy, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

Health Advocacy Groups Appeal EPO Decision To Uphold Gilead Hepatitis C Patent

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

Six organisations, including Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors Without Borders), today appealed a European Patent Office decision to uphold Gilead Science’s patent on hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir.

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, English, Europe, Health & IP, Human Rights, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy

As Blockchain Inventions Explode, EPO Says It’s Ready To Meet Patent Demand

05/12/2018 by Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS — The number of blockchain inventions is mushrooming, and the European Patent Office wants to ensure it handles the increasing patent applications consistently, officials said at a 4 December conference that brought together around 350 patent examiners and practitioners.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, Subscribers, Themes, Venues, English, Europe, Innovation/ R&D, New Technologies, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Regional Policy

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