US, Indian HIV/AIDS Drug Rulings Could Reverberate In Brazil

By Tatum Anderson for Intellectual Property Watch Indian generic manufacturers may be allowed to export a cheaper HIV/AIDS treatment to middle-income countries if US pharmaceutical company Gilead fails to win a patent for the drug in India. And a turnaround…

European Interoperability Framework Nears Final Stage Of Revision

By Juliette Ancelle and William New A unit of the European Commission has presented a new version of a proposed European framework on interoperability which it hopes will encourage member governments to further enable information sharing, such as through the…

Work Remains For ICANN’s New Top Level Internet Domains

By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch PARIS – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the “biggest extension of the DNS [domain name system] in 40 years” after its decision last week to finish implementation of…

OECD Talks Convergence, Creativity, Confidence – Answers Welcome!

By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Regulating convergence, finding solutions to foster creativity and answering consumer fears about identity theft, fraud and the invasion of their privacy were central questions at the recent Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development…

A New Business Model For The Music Industry Explained

By Bennett Lincoff The music industry has been in a decade-long death-spiral. This predicament results primarily from insistence by those who benefited most from how the industry operated before the internet arose that the established relationships upon which their past…

Green Intellectual Property Scheme: An Innovation Today For Innovations Tomorrow

By Itaru Nitta, Green Intellectual Property Project, Geneva, Switzerland Since the current IP framework has been shaped in wealthy societies of the North, accompanied by fertile markets, the North is required to rebuild the framework if they attempt to expand…