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Roche Seeks Deals On Bird Flu Drug As Compulsory Licenses Loom
Roche, the Swiss-based company with rights to a medicine believed to be the most effective in the event of an avian influenza pandemic, has expressed openness to discussing arrangements with…
IP Charter With ‘Public Interest Checklist’ For Governments Launched
A high-level group of legal scholars, artists, scientists and experts has launched an initiative urging governments to change the global intellectual property scheme which they argue has shifted too much…
October Edition Of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Available
A note to our readers: The October edition of Intellectual Property Watch’s Monthly Reporter is available on our website. The monthly publication, available online and in hard copy every month,…
US ‘Pulls Out All Stops’ As UNESCO Backs Culture Treaty
Paris—The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) today approved a treaty for the protection of cultural diversity despite an all-out drive by the United States to get governments to…
Business Leaders Cite IP Protection In Urging Progress In WTO Negotiations
An ad hoc, high-level global business leaders’ group that was in Geneva last week to push World Trade Organization negotiators to move forward on free-trade talks highlighted the importance of…
US, Japanese Calls For Cultural Treaty Change Meet With Resistance
PARIS — Attempts by the United States and Japan to reopen negotiations on a UN draft treaty on cultural diversity today are meeting with firm resistance from developed and developing…