[Catherine Saez, IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] A resolution on access to medicines proposed by a number of developing countries was adopted today by the United Nations Human Rights Council, as well as a resolution on enhancing capacity-building in public health.…
The WTO’s Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Council discussed the topic of e-commerce last week for the first time since 2003, sources said, during a 7-8 June meeting in Geneva. Other topics on the meeting’s agenda included…
I am speaking on behalf of the American University Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. And I speak as an educator myself and also on behalf of a larger network that I coordinate called the Global Expert Network on…
EIFL campaign to mark UNESCO World Book & Copyright Day and WIPO World Intellectual Property Day 2016 [Teresa Hackett, Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] In the digital environment, librarians deal with questions of copyright every day. But restrictive copyright…
Presented by the Colombian civil society organizations: Ifarma Foundation, Misión Salud and CIMUN Dear Mr. Bhanu Pratap Sharma, Chairman. We would like to transmit to you and all assistants our best wishes for the success of this session, where governments,…
[World Health Organization, Link] Summary: Intellectual property plays an important role both for the researching pharmaceutical industry, which relies heavily on intellectual property to protect its products, and for generic companies, which produce copies of existing medicines once patent protection…
Joint Submission by Sean Flynn, Cynthia Ho, David Levine, Gabriel Levitt, Heesob Nam, Alina Ng, and Andrew Rens This statement calls on the High-Level Panel to promote policy coherence in the international intellectual property, human rights and global health system…
[IP Watch, Link (CC-BY)] Today, United States President Barack Obama sent two signed multilateral copyright treaties negotiated at the World Intellectual Property Organization to the US Senate for ratification. The treaties are the 2012 Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances and…
Four companies to help speed access to curative direct-acting antiviral in 112 low- and middle-income countries [MPP Press release, Link, (CC-BY-NC-ND)] Geneva, 20 January 2016 – The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced its first round of sub-licences for the generic…
[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] The 31st session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR), that met in Geneva from 7 to 11 December 2015, had a full agenda that included discussion on the protection of…
The United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines is calling for contributions by interested stakeholders that address the misalignment between the rights of inventors, international human rights law, trade rules and public health where it impedes the innovation…
Document presented by the Group of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (GRULAC) to the 31 Session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Full Document (PDF) Introduction: GRULAC presents a proposal of discussion on questions regarding the update…