28 February 2012: Intervention delivered by Ecuador @ WTO TRIPS Council raising concerns with ACTA
According to informed sources, the delegation of Ecuador delivered the following statement to the WTO Council for TRIPS on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 raising concerns that the damages section found under Article 9 of ACTA could potentially chill the flexibilities found under Article 44 of the TRIPS Agreement which sets out the WTO rules on injunctions.
CONSEJO DE LOS ADPIC
28-29 DE FEBRERO DE 2012
PUNTO N. DE LA AGENDA
INTERVENCIÓN DEL ECUADORSeñor Presidente,
28 Feb 2012: Intervention delivered by India at WTO TRIPS Council on IP Enforcement Trends noting concerns with ACTA and TPPA
This intervention was delivered by India at today’s WTO Council for TRIPS during discussions of agenda item “N” on IP Enforcement Trends. The statement raises India’s concerns with plurilateral agreements like ACTA and TPPA and their potential impacts on public health, international exhaustion, border measures and digital goods and internet freedom.
28 February 2012: WTO TRIPS Council discussions on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
As reported previously, Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States have requested the WTO TRIPS Council to hold a discussion on IP Enforcement Trends (ie, ACTA). Continue Reading
Agenda of TRIPS Council meeting (28-29 February 2012): Review of ACTA and Australia’s tobacco plain packaging bill 2011
The following WTO airgram WTO/AIR/3892/REV.1 contains the agenda for the upcoming WTO Council for TRIPS meeting to be held in Geneva from Tuesday, 28 February 2012 to Wednesday, 29 February 2012. Paragraph 2 and agenda items D, E, F, J, M and N will be of interest to readers. It should be noted that in the original document, the text is capitalized.
The Dominican Republic made a written request to the WTO secretariat that an additional agenda item be added (“M) on “Australia: Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill 2011 and its compatibility with the TRIPS Agreement”.
KEI’s comments on WIPO’s Development Agenda Project on Open Collaborative Development Models
Written comments of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) regarding the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Taxonomy Analytical Study for the Project on Open Collaborative Projects and IP-Based Models (CDIP/8/INF/7)
21 February 2012
IGC20: Statement by the Holy See on patenting of life forms
Statement by the Permanent Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)- Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC)
Geneva, 17 February 2012
UPDATE: WIPO intergovernmental committee debates patents on life in relation to IP and genetic resources
18 January 2012
Chair of IGC 20, Ambassador Wayne McCook, Jamaica, and Wend Wendland, WIPO
Courtesy of Marc PerlmanUS, France, Japan, South Africa, WIPO, ICC-BASCAP, Lilly, Microsoft and Pfizer co-sponsor Africa IP Forum in Cape Town
The United States Department of Commerce’s Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) is the lead agency of a concerted effort involving the governments of France, Japan, South Africa and the United States, alongside the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI), and the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) to organize the inaugural “Africa Intellectual Property Forum: Intellectual Property, Regional Integration and Economic Gr Continue Reading
EB130: CMC Churches’ Action for Health intervention on the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development (CEWG)
This was the statement delivered by CMC Churches’ Action for Health intervention on 21 January 2012 on the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination at the 130th WHO Executive Board meeting.
CMC Churches’ Action for Health intervention on the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research
and Development: Financing and Coordination at the 130th WHO Executive Board meetingWHO 130th Executive Board Agenda Item 6.14
Intervention by James Love, CMC Churches’ Action for Health
WHO reform efforts to consider new modalities for engagement with NGOs, foundations, partnerships and for-profit-organizations
WHO reform is among the hot topics for consideration at the 130th session of the WHO Executive Board which meets from 16 January 2012 to 23 January 2012. One paper in particular, EB130/5 Add.4, entitled, “Governance: Promoting engagement with other stakeholders and involvement with and oversight of partnerships” describes how WHO may re-assess its relationship with non-governmental organizations including,