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WIPO patent committee solicits comments on proposals on quality of patents (including opposition systems) and patents and health
Submitted by thiru on 8. July 2011 - 2:24On 28 June 2011, Francis Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), sent out Circular note 7998 requesting Member States and Observers to the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) to submit comments on the the proposal by Canada and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on Quality of Patents, including Opposition Systems and the proposal by South Africa on behalf of the African Group and the Development Group on
USTR New Exclusive Right for Copyright Holders: Importation Provision in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)
Submitted by alberto.cerda on 5. July 2011 - 22:00At the recently completed Vietnam round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), once again, no official text of negotiation was released. Therefore, we still need to speculate about its status, relying in part on a three-month-ago leaked version of the intellectual property chapter proposed by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR).
WIPO SCP16: Joint proposal of the African Group and the Development Agenda Group on a work program on Patents and Health
Submitted by thiru on 18. May 2011 - 4:20Update: The proposal has now been formally published on the WIPO web site as SCP/16/7.
