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NAIROBI, Kenya - As start-up and innovation centres spring up across Africa, Kenya - which birthed the continent’s tech movement - is emerging as one of its leading innovation nuclei. But concerns are intensifying here that young inventors are losing their innovations to conglomerates, in what is alleged as intellectual property theft or abuse.
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya could disband its infant innovation agency and have its functions taken up by the state’s science, technology and innovation body, if changes suggested by the government to reform the science, technology and innovation (ST&I) sector are carried through.
The United States Commerce Department National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today it found the proposal developed by the global internet multistakeholder community to fully privatise oversight over the central root zone of the internet domain name system (DNS) satisfactory.
Some 800 registered participants gathered for the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) in Brussels today to talk about internet privacy, security and access. Besides the topical issues, the opening sessions speakers came back time and again to the discrepancy of theory and practice of the much-belaboured “multi-stakeholder principle.”
The European Union presenting its new Trademark Directive during this week’s meeting of the World Trade Organization intellectual property council heard concerns of possible seizures of generic medicines transiting through Europe. Meanwhile, the new Council chair's attempts at revitalising discussions between member states received general approval. And a new agenda item on e-commerce was launched.
Panellists at a side event this week at the World Trade Organization reminded delegates of the view that patents and a strong innovative environment are key to innovation, and in particular to green technology. A Swiss start-up company developing a…
The United States Copyright Office is examining how provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the 1976 Copyright Act are working and whether any changes, legislative or otherwise, are needed. Not surprisingly, there are broad differences of opinion among rights owners, public interest groups, users of copyrighted works and the high-tech community on both questions.
NEW YORK -- An estimated one million people may already die each year because they are resistant to all known antibiotics, and the number could reach 10 million per year and devastate the world economy by 2050 unless key steps are taken, experts from the United Kingdom and South Africa told a press briefing on antimicrobial resistance at United Nations headquarters today.
Cultural mindset plays a key role in determining how entrepreneurial a region will be and how effectively its intellectual property will be used, Ludovit Garzik, managing director of the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development and Innovation Orbit said at an 11 May Oxfirst webinar. The goal is for different cultures to understand how each innovates, leading to global IP, Garzik said.
Tomando como referencia el trabajo del Grupo de Alto Nivel de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Acceso a los Medicamentos, esta serie de artículos patrocinados invita a expertos en la materia a expresar sus puntos de vista sobre las políticas que respaldan con mayor eficacia la formulación de soluciones que respondan a los principales desafíos de las sociedades, y sobre cómo los entornos propicios para la implantación de políticas, incluidas las relativas a los sistemas de propiedad intelectual, influyen en el desarrollo y el caudal de nuevas tecnologías y servicios en diferentes sectores, campos tecnológicos y territorios. Las opiniones expresadas en los artículos son las de los autores. A continuación se presenta una entrevista a la Dra. Kristina M. Lybecker, profesora asociada de Economía del Colorado College, en Colorado Springs.
Tomando como referencia el trabajo del Grupo de Alto Nivel de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Acceso a los Medicamentos, esta serie de artículos patrocinados invita a expertos en la materia a expresar sus puntos de vista sobre las políticas que respaldan con mayor eficacia la formulación de soluciones que respondan a los principales desafíos de las sociedades, y sobre cómo los entornos propicios para la implantación de políticas, incluidas las relativas a los sistemas de propiedad intelectual, influyen en el desarrollo y el caudal de nuevas tecnologías y servicios en diferentes sectores, campos tecnológicos y territorios. Las opiniones expresadas en los artículos son las de los autores. A continuación, presentamos la entrevista a Tim Wilsdon, vicepresidente de CRA.
World Intellectual Property Organization members negotiating for an instrument to protect against theft of genetic resources last week agreed on a new text with more options on legal terms, effectively moving the talks forward. In this round of talks, the African Group showed signs of moving off its position of revoking patents for violators, while the United States came out strongly against disclosure of origin at the expense of amiable relations with key allies.