Interpol Leads Widespread Operation Against Counterfeit Goods
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.
View ArticleHackers For Good, Gathering Stakeholders To Find Answers To Cyberspace...
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...
View ArticleInside Views: The Global Multilateral Benefit-Sharing Mechanism: Where Will...
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...
View ArticleWEF: US Most Competitive, But Idea Generation, Agility Will Shape Future Growth
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...
View ArticleMulti-Agency Conference Addresses Positive Aspects Of ‘Respect For IP’
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...
View ArticleReport: Is China Gaining The Inside Track On Standards For “Internet Of...
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...
View ArticleKey Hepatitis C Drug Licensed To Medicines Patent Pool, Access Expanded For...
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...
View ArticleOECD Report Presents Policies To Balance Innovation With Access To Medicines
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...
View ArticleWHO Governance Questioned As It Adds World Health Assembly Agenda Item On...
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...
View ArticleInside Views: Interview With Charles Gore, Medicines Patent Pool Executive...
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...
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