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WIPO Working Toward Agreement To Finish Broadcasting Treaty This Week
The World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee is meeting this week with a top agenda item of sending a longstanding treaty on copyright for broadcasters to its final conclusion. Dozens…
Gene Editing: Fears Lead To Call For Moratorium At CBD, Discussions Ongoing
Gene editing techniques have opened the way to a new world of innovations. One of them is the potential eradication of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. What appears as a very attractive way…
UN Committee Adopts ‘Landmark’ Declaration Reinforcing Peasants’ Rights To Seeds
The social, humanitarian and cultural committee of the United Nations meeting this month adopted a UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas. The…
African Civil Society Outcry Over ARIPO’s Closed Decision-Making On Health And IP
As the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) Administrative Council meets this week, more than 60 civil society groups are calling for greater inclusion and more transparency on access to…
US Section 301 Update On China: Systematic Espionage, Plundering Of IP In US, EU, Australia, Japan
The Office of the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) latest update of its “Section 301” investigation of China’s alleged theft and manipulation of US intellectual property rights, technology transfer, and…
Convention On Biological Diversity Biennial Meeting Looks At How New Technologies Will Affect Its Objectives
Member countries of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity are meeting in Egypt for its biennial conference of the parties, and the conference of the parties of its protocol on…