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Par Catherine Saez Alors que le monde est confronté à une crise alimentaire, l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’agriculture et l’alimentation (FAO) tente de défendre la biodiversité afin de contribuer à la sécurité alimentaire. À cette fin, elle a lancé…
Por William New A escala mundial, en particular en algunas naciones, la presentación de solicitudes de patente sigue creciendo, a medida que aumentan los problemas de procesamiento de solicitudes de gran volumen y de aseguramiento de calidad. Sin embargo, debe…
By Claudia Jurberg for Intellectual Property Watch RIO DE JANEIRO – An investigation was conducted recently by the civil police in Sao Paulo State, Brazil, against multinational pharmaceutical companies, in which the prosecution affirmed that laboratories pay lawyers to get…
By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch West African people should establish a medical anti-counterfeiting task force to promote local herbal medicines by protecting indigenous knowledge and genetic property and establishing benefit-sharing systems in addition to tackling the spread of…
By Catherine Saez As the world struggles with a global food crisis, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) is working to support biodiversity as a way to contribute to food security. To that end, the FAO…
By Tatum Anderson for Intellectual Property Watch As a novel prize system to encourage the development of treatments for diseases that disproportionately affect patients in developing countries launches in the United States next month, concerns are already being voiced as…
By William New
Patent filings continue to rise globally, especially in a few nations, as do problems of high-volume application processing and quality assurance. But more attention is needed to bring smaller economies into the patent system, and patenting may slow down with tough economic times, officials at the World Intellectual Property Organization said last week.
Par Catherine Saez Les questions liées à la propriété intellectuelle apparaissent comme un objectif clé des politiques mises en oeuvre par la Conférence des Nations Unies pour le commerce et le développement (CNUCED) au regard de la décision prise lors…
By Kaitlin Mara
It's summertime, and that means many changing faces at the missions and the international organisations in Geneva. Read the latest on the comings and goings of some key IP policymakers.
Por Catherine Saez Las cuestiones relacionadas con la propiedad intelectual (PI) parecen ser un claro enfoque de políticas de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo (UNCTAD), ya que la 12.va conferencia cuatrienal de la UNCTAD celebrada…