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By Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen While the music industry said it is a “big disappointment” that the United Kingdom will not extend copyright protection to sound recordings beyond its current 50 years as stated in a leaked section of a…
By Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen At a Tokyo meeting last week of the developed countries of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the issue of patent harmonisation was kept alive though no specific decisions were reached, a source said. Kenichiro…
Par Martin Vaughan pour Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON DC – La nouvelle majorité démocrate à la Chambre des représentants et au Sénat des États-Unis pose de nouveaux obstacles aux accords commerciaux de l’administration Bush. Toutefois, les observateurs et les responsables…
Por Martin Vaughan para Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC – Las nuevas mayorías demócratas del Senado y la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos constituyen nuevos obstáculos frente a las iniciativas comerciales de la Administración Bush. Pero, según encargados…
By Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen The biotechnology industry has proposed to change the international generic naming of medicine ingredients, which at the moment are public property, into unique names for each medicine, making it harder to substitute them with cheaper…
By Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen and William New Le rapport d’une réunion du groupe des pays développé de l’Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI) qui s’est tenue en septembre dévoile la stratégie cachée du groupe sur des thématiques telles…
By Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen Submissions to the World Health Organization (WHO) online public consultation on the intergovernmental working group on public health, innovation and intellectual property show that the debate is quite polarised, and that the group is therefore…
Por Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen En la reunión de octubre del consejo de la Organización Mundial del Comercio encargado de los derechos de propiedad intelectual surgió un desacuerdo en cuanto a la manera de abordar la cuestión de la observancia.…
By Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen A World Health Organization (WHO) director has taken the unusual step of writing a memorandum directly to the head of the WHO, seeking clarity on the organisation’s handling of a United States complaint involving WHO…
Packing their bags in Geneva: a key architect of the WIPO Development Agenda, a likeable South Korean IP negotiator, and the author of a controversial WHO report on TRIPS flexibilities and access to medicines. But staying in town is the new WHO director general. Read these and other comings and goings in the Intellectual Property Watch People column.