Intellectual Property Watch was an independent newspaper that covered international IP policy from 2005-2019
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Lets Move Ahead With IP-Watch 2.0: We Need Your Input!
What’s new in the international policymaking on intellectual property, innovation and information? What’s at stake at this year’s @WIPO Assemblies? This is first year since 2004 that @IP-Watch has not…
Transition At IP-Watch: A New Path Forward
Dear Readers, After 15 years of original, independent, thoughtful, and timely reporting on global policymaking from the inside, Intellectual Property Watch (IP-Watch) is announcing today a pause on reporting services…
Health Policy Watch – Continuing The IP-Watch Tradition Of Vibrant Health Reporting
Following today’s announcement of a one-year pause on IP-Watch reporting, we invite all IP-Watch readers to sign up here for free daily, weekly or monthly news bulletins from our sister publication,…
Everything Is Obvious
Ryan Abbott writes: For more than sixty years, “obviousness” has set the bar for patentability. Under this standard, if a hypothetical “person having ordinary skill in the art” would find…
Interview With Charles Gore, Medicines Patent Pool Executive Director
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.…
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Lets Move Ahead With IP-Watch 2.0: We Need Your Input!
What’s new in the international policymaking on intellectual property, innovation and information? What’s at stake at this year’s @WIPO Assemblies? This is first year since 2004 that @IP-Watch has not…
Read More
Transition At IP-Watch: A New Path Forward
Dear Readers, After 15 years of original, independent, thoughtful, and timely reporting on global policymaking from the inside, Intellectual Property Watch (IP-Watch) is announcing today a pause on re…
Read More
Health Policy Watch – Continuing The IP-Watch Tradition Of Vibrant Health Reporting
Following today’s announcement of a one-year pause on IP-Watch reporting, we invite all IP-Watch readers to sign up here for free daily, weekly or monthly news bulletins from our sister publication, H…
Read More
Everything Is Obvious
Ryan Abbott writes: For more than sixty years, “obviousness” has set the bar for patentability. Under this standard, if a hypothetical “person having ordinary skill in the art” would find an inventio…
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Interview With Charles Gore, Medicines Patent Pool Executive Director
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 h…
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South Africa Moves Forward With Creator Rights Agenda
Prof. Sean Flynn writes: The South Africa National Council of Provinces has cleared the Copyright Amendment Bill for a final vote. The bill would adopt an innovative fair use right as well as new righ…
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