The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group VI [security interests] is meeting in Vienna this week to work on the draft annex to the Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions, which focuses on intellectual property rights.
Working Group VI is working closely with the World Intellectual Property Organization on the contractual guide on intellectual property licensing. The legislative guide aims to modernise countries’ financing laws to spur investment, while the annex’s goal is to recommend how to use intellectual property in secured finance transaction so that it does not interfere with IP laws.
Link to UNCITRAL Working Group VI Vienna agenda here.
Past Intellectual Property Watch stories on the topic here, and here.