On 28 October 2014, India delivered the following intervention at the WTO TRIPS Council’s annual review of the Paragraph 6 system (designed to facilitate compulsory licensing for export of pharmaceuticals).
In particular, India noted that
On Friday, 24 October 2014, India’s Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) announced the creation of an IPR Think Tank to Draft National Intellectual Property Rights Policy.
The composition of the think tank follows:
Justice Prabha Sridevan, Chairperson, IPR Think Tank;
Ms. Pratibha Singh, Advocate, Singh & Singh Associates, Member;
Ms. Punita Bhargava, Advocate, Inventure IP, Member;
Dr. Unnat Pandit, Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited, Member;
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UPDATE: On 17 October 2014, the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) circulated an updated WTO airgram WTO/AIR/4358 REV. 1 to its Members following a request by Ukraine. Ukraine requested the addition of an item on “Concerns with Respect to Measures Related to Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products and their Compatibility with the TRIPS Agreement.” This will be discussed under agenda item 13. Continue Reading
During intense plenary discussions regarding WIPO’s future work program on the protection of broadcasting organizations and copyright limitations and exceptions, Brazil made the following proposal to reproduce language from the General Assembly decision of 2013. Brazil proposed,
On 30 September 2014, the WIPO secretariat handed the following text relating to the “Consideration of the Convening of a Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of a Design Law Treaty (DLT).”
Consideration of the Convening of a Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of a Design Law Treaty (DLT)
Agenda item 14 Decision Paragraph
The WIPO General Assembly:
Will at its session in September 2015 decide on whether to convene a diplomatic conference for the adoption of a Design Law Treaty as soon as practicable.”
On 30 September 2014, the WIPO secretariat handed the following draft decision relating to the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC).
GA 2014
Draft decision on item 16
The WIPO General Assembly:
(1)) took note of the information contained in document WO/GA/46/6;
(2) took note of the statements made by delegations at the Forty-Sixth Session of the WIPO General Assembly in 2014; and
On Tuesday, 30 September 2014, the Secretariat handed out the following text:
Matters relating to the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) Agenda item 15 Decision Paragraph
The WIPO General Assembly
(i) took note of the information contained in document WO/GA/46/5; and
(ii) took note of the statements made by delegations at the 46th session of the WIPO General Assembly in 2014.
On Thursday, 25 September 2014, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered this statement on agenda item 17(i), Reports on other WIPO Committees, (i) Standing on the Law of Patents (SCP).
WIPO General Assembly 2014
17. Reports on other WIPO Committees
(i) Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP);Statement of Knowledge Ecology International
On Thursday, 25 September 2014, South Africa delivered the following intervention on agenda item 17(i) on the Report of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) at the Fifty-Fourth Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO.
South Africa Intervention on the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP)
On Wednesday, 24 September 2014, Knowledge Ecology International delivered this intervention on agenda item 15, Matters Relating to the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
WIPO General Assembly 2014
15. Matters Relating to the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
Statement of Knowledge Ecology International