Category Development

US, Brazil Duel On WIPO Development Agenda

At the start of day two of a meeting on reform of the UN World Intellectual Property Organization toward developing country concerns, the United States put a political stake in the ground, calling for the meeting to recommend moving development…

William New
July 21, 2005
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Development Groups Gather Support For WIPO Reform Agenda

Just days before the final round of a debate over a proposed development agenda for the World Intellectual Property Organisation, non-profit groups from all corners of the world are signing on to a call for support of WIPO reform. The…

William New
July 18, 2005
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WIPO Negotiators Tackle Proposals On Reform For Development

Negotiators at a 20-22 June meeting to discuss possible reform of the World Intellectual Property Organisation to better address developing country needs began on the second day tackling the details of various proposals put forth by member governments. Officials arrived…

William New
June 23, 2005
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WIPO Development Agenda Meeting Opens With New, Modified Proposals

The 20-22 June World Intellectual Property Organisation meeting to discuss the possible establishment of an agenda for development opened with, among other things, a proposal on how to discuss the proposals. Negotiators at the start of the second Inter-sessional Intergovernmental…

William New
June 21, 2005

Reform Debate Trips Up WIPO Development Aid Meeting

Members of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on Friday failed to agree on the proper role for a permanent committee on technical cooperation that could impact larger efforts by some to reform WIPO toward development issues. Debate focused on…

William New
April 15, 2005

WIPO Development Agenda Talks Move Ahead

World Intellectual Property Organisation members late Wednesday night agreed to continue discussing a proposal to more deeply infuse developing country needs into the mission of the UN body. After three full days of closed-door meetings – much of them in…

William New
April 13, 2005

India Joins Opposition To Casablanca Patent Meeting Outcome

India, a critical player in policy debates at the World Intellectual Property Organisation, has announced its opposition to a recommendation on global patent harmonisation backed by a select group of countries in a February consultation with WIPO Director General Kamil…

William New
April 10, 2005
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WIPO Development Agenda: Developing Countries Submit New Proposals

On the eve of high-level meetings next week on development and intellectual property, the fourteen co-sponsors of the proposal for the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s new Development Agenda today submitted detailed elaborations of their proposals for incorporating development into WIPO’s…

Carolyn Deere
April 6, 2005

Debate Heats Up Over WIPO Development Agenda

Negotiators attending closed meetings at a UN body in Geneva in mid-April could shape the policy agenda for development and intellectual property for years to come, participants and observers say. It is not clear how the consecutive meetings at the…

William New
April 1, 2005

“Deliverables” For Developing Nations Discussed By Hand-Picked WIPO Members

A group of nations hand-picked by the head of the World Intellectual Property Organisation on Thursday concluded informal consultations on ways to move the harmonisation of national patent regimes forward while addressing development concerns of some countries seen as delaying…

William New
February 17, 2005