Heads Of State At Davos’ Door: Trump, Modi, Macron, May
The World Economic Forum is meeting next week in Davos, with Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi opening the forum, and US President Donald Trump closing it. One of the focuses of the annual meeting...
View ArticleAntimicrobial Benchmark For Industry Launched In Davos
Across the Alps from this week's World Health Organization Executive Board meeting, the first ever antimicrobial resistance benchmark was launched today at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in...
View ArticleNew Open Source Drug Discovery Initiative Takes Aim At “Devastating” Disease
A consortium including the Drugs for Neglected Disease initiative has launched a groundbreaking open source drug discovery project as way to find new drugs to treat mycetoma, a "devastating disease for...
View ArticleLeadership And Change: An Interview With Medicines Patent Pool Board Chair...
The unexpected announcement in December of the resignation of the Medicines Patent Pool executive director left the Pool searching for its new head. Marie-Paule Kieny, former World Health Organization...
View ArticleUS 2019 Budget Proposal Shows Stable Funding For WIPO, WTO, WHO, ITU
While the Trump administration has taken aim overall at US contributions to international organisations since taking office last year, the budget proposal it put forward last week would roughly...
View ArticleRising Patent Applications – And Challenges – For New Technologies,...
The steady increase in innovations relating to new digital technologies, in particular technologies using artificial intelligence, is matched by an upward patenting trend. The European Patent Office...
View ArticleBetter Cyber Security Problematic, Says US Financial Industry: Power Struggle...
A decision to keep third party listeners out of communications on the internet taken by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) at their recent meeting in London elicited an alarmist message from...
View ArticleCarlos Correa Named Head Of Intergovernmental South Centre
Prof. Carlos Correa of Argentina, an influential academic whose analyses of patents and medicines access have informed debates and challenged the status quo for decades, has been named the next...
View ArticleInterpol Highlights Takedown Of Deadly Global Fake Food And Drink Operations
Weevil-infested flour, deadly methanol added to alcohol, borax to make products seem fresher, pesticide-laced shrimp, fake medicines. Global police organisation Interpol today detailed a multi-agency...
View ArticleChina, Russia Are Most Restricted Countries For Digital Trade, Index Says
A new European index measuring the extent to which 64 countries restrict digital trade found China at the top of the list, while New Zealand was the most open.
View ArticleOECD Issues Paper On Blockchain And Competition Policy
The disruptive blockchain technology has been making waves, especially with Bitcoin and smart contracts taking centre stage. For some, it calls for a wide range of regulatory issues to be addressed,...
View ArticleMPP Board Gives Green Light To Expansion, Now Has To Identify Candidates
The Medicines Patent Pool announced this week that its Board agreed on the extension of the MPP mandate to patented medicines on the World Health Organization Essential Medicines List. The decision...
View ArticleIP, AI, Health Commitments Mere Footnotes In Quarrel Between G6 And Trump?
Leaders at the G7 Summit tried to mitigate tensions by taking on some US favourites in their final communiqué like “forced technology transfers,” a topic brought up only recently by the United States...
View ArticleInterpol 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...
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