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WIPO Working Group To Reconsider Rules On Appellations Of Origin
By Kaitlin Mara World Intellectual Property Organization members last Friday set up a working group to consider improvements to an international agreement on appellations of origin – names of products…
Global Access To Medicines Not Improved By TRIPS Waiver, Some Say
A much-heralded 2003 waiver to World Trade Organization intellectual property rules aimed at helping poor countries receive needed medicines they cannot produce themselves has brought little if any help five…
Both Sides Claim Victory In US Music Industry File-Sharing Litigation
By Bruce Gain for Intellectual Property Watch Five years and over 30,000 lawsuits later, both sides in the music industry’s legal battle against illegal file-sharing in the United States claim…
US Congress Hastens Through Flurry Of IP Legislation Before Departure
By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch In the waning days of this congressional session in the United States, US lawmakers are passing a flurry of intellectual property-related bills.…
Internal EU Documents On WIPO Gap Analysis
The Council of the European Union has prepared a confidential draft contribution to the World Intellectual Property Organization gap analyses on traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, which will be…