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The United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) today released an annual report on information and communications technologies that prompted it to push governments to support continued investment in network rollouts and technology upgrades while pursuing regulations that support still-growing demand…
United States Senate Judiciary Committee bipartisan leaders today released details of much-anticipated compromise legislation aimed at reform of US patent laws. The new bill ostensibly makes significant steps toward resolving longstanding differences in legislative efforts to modernise US law for patent quality and efficiency, and make it more compatible with international laws.
The Administrative Council of the Munich-based European Patent Organisation on 1 March elected Benoît Battistelli of France as next president of the European Patent Office (EPO), starting on 1 July. Battistelli is director general of the French National Institute of…
The United States’ largest industry association today laid out an aggressive legislative agenda on intellectual property, calling for a dramatic increase in enforcement activities including pumped up customs and border authority.
CAIRO - The launch this week on the new campus of American University in Cairo of a new centre and a new book on access to knowledge in Egypt offered a view on the complexities of the issues and the challenges developing countries face to ensure global intellectual property rights are incorporated into their legal systems in the most locally productive ways possible.
Un accord prévoyant l’échange d’informations sur les virus et le partage des avantages liés à la gestion des droits de propriété intellectuelle qui en découlent devrait être conclu dans le cadre d’une nouvelle négociation intergouvernementale organisée sous les auspices de la directrice générale de l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé.
يُؤمل أن تُوضع اللمسات الأخيرة على اتفاق بشأن المواد المتعلقة بتبادل الفيروسات والفوائد وإدارة حقوق الملكية الفكرية المرتبطة بها من خلال دورة من المفاوضات الحكومية الدولية التي تيسّرها المديرة العامة لمنظمة الصحة العالمية.
通过世界卫生组织干事长的协调而进行的一个新的政府间谈判，将有望达成一项有关共享病毒材料及其收益与管理相关知识产权的协议。
Se espera que una nueva negociación intergubernamental facilitada por la directora general de la Organización Mundial de la Salud permita lograr un acuerdo sobre intercambio de materiales relacionados con los virus, compartición de beneficios y gestión de los derechos de propiedad intelectual conexos.
The United States Department of Justice yesterday told the US District Court for the Southern District of New York that progress had been made on its concerns in the settlement allowing internet search giant Google to scan millions of books into a database. But the government lawyers continue to have doubts on copyright, class certification and antitrust issues, they said.