Year: 2014

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 →

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KEI was asked to make a presentation on Hepatitis C, on September 30, 2014, at a lunch seminar at UNITAID. I am attaching a PDF of the slides I used, as well as an eight page memo that takes a look at the recent Gilead license. The memo on the license was last edited on September 30, 2014, and is presented as a draft that may be revised in the future.

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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.”

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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

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