Plant Treaty Budget, Work Programme Approved; Farmers Concerned
The treaty on plant genetic resources held its governing body meeting earlier this month with new initiatives to bring financial sustainability to the treaty, in particular to study the possibility of...
View ArticleNew WIPO Group B Coordinator; MPP Adds Members To Board
October saw a flurry of changes in law offices in the United States. In Geneva, the coordination for Group B developed countries at the World Intellectual Property Organization changed hands, and the...
View ArticleNew Internet Domain Reservations: There Can Only Be One – Or Not?
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), standardisation body for the internet protocol and related specifications, is concerned about stepping on the toes of the Internet Corporation for Assigned...
View ArticleNew Industry Coalition To Promote Fair Standards In Licensing
A group of companies launched the Fair Standards Alliance this week in Brussels, aimed at ensuring licensing of standard-essential patents is done on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND)...
View ArticleMedicines Patent Pool Partners with Liverpool University On HIV Nanomedicines
The Medicines Patent Pool has signed a collaborative agreement with the University of Liverpool to develop HIV nanomedicines.
View ArticleEuropean Court Of Human Rights Finds Turkey Violated Freedom Of Expression In...
Ten sites allegedly disrespectful to Kemal Attaturk, founder of modern Turkey, were enough for the courts in Turkey to ban a whole platform - YouTube - from 2008 until the end of 2010. But a ruling of...
View ArticleReport: FAO To The Rescue In Global Agriculture And Trade Discussions
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization yesterday launched a report aiming at helping the current divide on the issue of trade and food security.
View ArticlePlant Treaty In 2016: Sustainability Solutions, Farmers’ Rights, Global...
The International Plant Treaty, which established a global system to make available genetic materials for main agricultural crops for farmers, plant breeders and scientists, and in exchange provide a...
View ArticleClimate Change Panel Seeks To Improve Communication, Open Doors To Private...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change seeks to improve its communication to promote its reports, its chair said at a briefing yesterday. Working on its next assessment report expected to be...
View ArticleIEEE Patent Policy Changes Seek To Put Brakes On Surging Litigation
Intense debate, reignited by a 2012 International Telecommunication Union roundtable on rampant patent litigation and the “innovation-stifling” use of intellectual property, together with the growing...
View ArticleAlleged R&D Costs: Not A Transparent Driver Of Drug Prices
Whether laws enforcing transparency on costs would help curb extortionate drug prices in today’s world is hardly predictable now that pharma companies and their allies are lobbying governments to...
View ArticleG7, In Japan, Put Their Heads Together Over Crises
Eight ministerial meetings have prepared a fat stack of paper, the “sherpas” have nearly concluded their work, and civil society once more has passed its own resolution on how they propose to tackle...
View ArticleGlobal Health In The Glare In G7 Final Resolutions; Trade Deals Promised For...
Reform of the WHO, support for the Contingency Fund for Emergency to enable swift initial responses by the WHO, and a special R&D and innovation chapter in the G7 Ise-Shima Vision for Global Health...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Eyes Update Of EU Standards-Setting Policy
As standardisation increasingly takes place at the global level, Europe needs a speedier, more streamlined way to set the technical specifications that define requirements for products, production...
View ArticleGenerics, Biosimilars Makers Join Global Medical Harmonisation Body
Doors to a global medical harmonisation organisation opened to the generic and biosimilar industry, which described it as an historical moment for them. The industry will now be able to sit on the...
View ArticleAs OECD Gathers, Call For New Internet Social Compact – With Some Open Questions
On the eve of the third internet-related Ministerial Meeting of the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) starting on 22 June in Cancun, Mexico, the Global Commission on Internet...
View ArticleOECD Ministerial On Internet: Trust, But Whom?
Beware “digital protectionism.” That was one of the key messages of United States Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, speaking at the official opening of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...
View ArticleSouth Centre Steps Up Activity On IP, Medicines Access, Trade, Investment And...
The intergovernmental South Centre has raised the level of its activity on issues of relevance to the intellectual property community in recent weeks.
View ArticleOECD Ministerial On Internet Wraps Up: Openness A Concern
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) should not wait 8 or 10 years before its next Internet Ministerial, said OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria at the closing session in...
View ArticleFor UNCTAD Ministerial, NGOs Call For Development Focus, Not Trade Rules...
Days before a major meeting of the governing body of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), over 100 non-governmental organisations worldwide are calling for the organisation...
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