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Intellectual Property Watch provides independent news, features and analysis on international intellectual policymaking such as trade, health, digital rights, biodiversity and access to knowledge.

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  1. Support Mixed For US Orphan Works Bill As Issue Catches Global Attention

    http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1028

    Inside Views [disclaimer] Contribute your views! Submit an Inside Views idea on any relevant topic to info@ip-watch.ch, or leave a comment within any piece such as below: Linkages Between The WIPO Development Agenda And The TRIPS Council Ahmed Abdel Latif writes: This week's TRIPS Council …

    9 days ago
  2. WHO IP And Health Group Concludes With Progress; Tough Issues Remain For Assembly

    http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1027

    Inside Views [disclaimer] Contribute your views! Submit an Inside Views idea on any relevant topic to info@ip-watch.ch, or leave a comment within any piece such as below: Linkages Between The WIPO Development Agenda And The TRIPS Council Ahmed Abdel Latif writes: This week's TRIPS Council …

    10 days ago
  3. WHO Members Inch Toward Consensus On IP, Innovation And Public Health

    http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1024

    Inside Views [disclaimer] Contribute your views! Submit an Inside Views idea on any relevant topic to info@ip-watch.ch, or leave a comment within any piece such as below: Linkages Between The WIPO Development Agenda And The TRIPS Council Ahmed Abdel Latif writes: This week's TRIPS Council …

    14 days ago
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    UN Events Map Efforts To Narrow Digital Divide, Increase Information Access

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    Bush Administration Presses On For Patent Reform Bill This Year

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    Intellectual Property Watch: By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch Despite an apparent stalemate on patent reform in the United States Congress, the Bush administration is still pushing for a bill to be completed this congressional session.

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    Korakora Proyekto | Art, Technology, Society

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    UN Events Map Efforts To Narrow Digital Divide, Increase Information Access Bush Administration Presses On For Patent Reform Bill This Year IP Rights Arise In UN Debate On The Right To Participate In Cultural Life High US Court Reconsiders Policy Of Patenting Business Methods

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    Patent bill update

    http://www.athenaalliance.org/weblog/archives/2008/05/patent...

    Bush Administration Presses On For Patent Reform Bill This Year

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    technology-transfer: Intellectual Property Watch - UN Events Map Efforts To Narrow…

    http://cit2.ukini.org/?p=2417

    …the 13 to 30 May culminates in the eleventh session of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development, to be held 26… read full story

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    High US Court Reconsiders Policy Of Patenting Business Methods

    http://lawbites.com/high-us-court-reconsiders-policy-of-pate...

    Intellectual Property Watch: By Drew Clark for Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC - The chief US appeals court that rules on patent disputes has squarely reconsidered whether the United States’ 1998 decision to allow greater berth for business method patents was the

    1 day ago in Law Bites · Authority: 24
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    IP Rights Arise In UN Debate On The Right To Participate In Cultural Life

    http://lawbites.com/ip-rights-arise-in-un-debate-on-the-righ...

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    WIPO Director General

    http://inventandinvest.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/15/wipo-di...

    This was an extremely close contest. I don’t want to go through too many similar experiences in my life,” Gurry told members in what amounted to a victory speech that sought to stress inclusiveness. Link to the article: http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1043

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    FFII: in need of attention or just plain incompetent?

    http://www.innovationpartners.dk/?p=457

    McCreevy wants to legalise Software Patents via a US-EU patent treaty. In this press release FFII tries to induce fear of american standards in European patent law, in the area of computer-implemented inventions. The source of the distress is a draft treaty from the so called B+ group. The FFII is citing article 12 of the draft as the source of a software patent backdoor it says: (3) [Inventive Step/Non-Obviousness] A claimed invention shall involve an inventive step. It shall be considered to involve an

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    CTO Blog (FeedSnap Test)

    http://mesh.cg-gmc-ssc-ds.com/2008/05/ceo-blog-feedsnap-test...

    since an overwhelming majority of the assigned technical committee had voted against it. There is obviously a lot at stake in the world of standards for ‘office’ documents. But personally, I fail to see why an established organisation like ISO would approve a standard which overlaps considerably with an already in 2006 approved open standard (ODF, the Open Document Format). The very point of standards is that they bring simplicity and unification. Approving multiple, incompatible standards destroys these qualities.

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