Top IP-Watch Stories Of 2016 Reflect Cutting Edge Issues, Lingering Concerns
Hundreds of thousands of people visited articles on Intellectual Property Watch last year, and we published nearly 1,000 original articles. The year’s most-visited articles reflected a mix of new ideas...
View ArticleWEF Davos: Responsible Leadership, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Social...
Days away from the opening of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, the founder of the forum described the main themes of the upcoming event, and underlined the role of social responsibility for...
View ArticleWEF Davos: Who Will Own The Knowledge Produced From “Our” Data By Machines?
Artificial intelligence has succeeded the Internet of Things or the earlier cloud mania as buzzword number one at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum that started today (17 January) in...
View ArticleWorld Economic Forum Hears Hopes And Fears: Too Early To Predict Trade War
It is too early to push the panic button with regard to the rise of protectionism under new US President Donald Trump, David Cote, CEO of US multinational Honeywell, said on a panel discussion at the...
View ArticlePharma Joins Atomic Energy Agency On Cancer Treatment Training In Poor Countries
Seeking to address the growing issue of cancer, and in particular the lack of access to diagnosis and treatment in low and middle-income countries, the International Federation of Pharmaceutical...
View ArticleGovernment-Financed R&D Declining; Private Sector, Tax Incentives Rise, OECD...
A new set of science and technology indicators shows that the business sector is expected to remain the driving force behind research and development growth, according to the Organisation for Economic...
View ArticleGeneva Health Campus: New Home For Global Fund, GAVI, UNITAID By 2018
The construction of a new building to host the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and other key players in the area of global health is well under way in Geneva. The “Campus Santé”...
View ArticleNew WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement Seen Benefiting Developing Nations,...
Multilateral institutions have received a lift with the realization of the World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement that is expected to provide a boost to sluggish international commerce...
View ArticleGlobal Fund Hits Reset On Executive Director Search
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is deliberating on how to start over on its search for a new executive director after questions arose near the end of the process.
View ArticleGlobal Fund Names Interim Executive Director Starting In June
The Board of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has named Marijke Wijnroks of the Netherlands as interim executive director starting on 1 June until a new director can be selected. The...
View ArticleA Review Of ‘Standard Essential Patents Within Global Networks – An Emerging...
Dieter Ernst’s study is one of the few, if not the only one, to thoroughly examine the role, function and effects of Standard Essential Patents from a developing country’s perspective. As such, the...
View ArticleEPO Sees Highest Patent Filings Ever; Chinese Applications Still Rising
The European Patent Office published its 2016 annual report today, showing an “unprecedented level of patent filings,” and underlining the growing number of patent applications from China. The top...
View ArticleWorld Bank Now Relying On Capital Markets, Focuses On Fragile Countries
After the announcement in December of a record US$75 billion commitment to its International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank Group said today that this commitment was both historic in...
View ArticleLarge Amount Of Consumer Tech Is Counterfeit, OECD Report Finds
Nearly 20 percent of mobile phones and 25 percent of video game consoles sold internationally are counterfeit, and the numbers are rising, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic...
View ArticleRevocation Of Broadband Rules Ossifying Poor Privacy Practices, Experts Say
CHICAGO, Illinois - US President Trump Monday signed the repeal of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broadband privacy rules passed by both houses of Congress in March. The decision by...
View ArticleThe Deepening Debate Over Vaccines And Antimicrobial Resistance Involves IP
With the looming threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), there is growing pressure to use vaccines because they obviate the need to prescribe antibiotics in the first place.
View ArticleGermany Brings Health Issues To G20; First Health Ministers Meeting In May
Global health matters are entering into the Group of Twenty (G20) agenda under the German presidency of the group, which started in December 2016. The first-ever G20 Health Ministers' meeting is...
View ArticleAfrican Civil Society, Farmers Demand ARIPO Lift Blackout On Protocol...
Civil society and farmers allege communication blackout from by the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) about a protocol protecting new plant varieties. The 2015 protocol was...
View ArticleNew Open Source Project Enlists Students To Find Cures For Neglected Diseases
The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) has launched a collaborative project with five universities in India, United Kingdom, and the United States to help with the research on a...
View ArticleG20 Health Ministers Receive Flurry Of Requests Ahead Of Their First-Ever...
Civil society organisations and the Business 20 Dialogue all put their positions on the table before the opening of the first-ever meeting of G20 Health Ministers tomorrow in Berlin, Germany taking...
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