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property law serves the public interest.
[Sean Flynn, Christophe Geiger and João Pedro Quintais] Last year, before the onset of a global pandemic highlighted the critical and urgent need for technology-enabled scientific research, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) launched an inquiry into issues at the intersection of intellectual property (IP) and artificial intelligence (AI). We and other members of the Global Expert Network on Copyright
[Brigitte Vézina] This change in leadership opens the way for bold new perspectives and a sharpened focus on much needed global copyright policy reform that has been urged for decades. With Tang at the helm, WIPO and its member states will have a unique opportunity to recalibrate an outdated, unbalanced copyright system, embrace on equal terms the views and opinions
[Viviana Muñoz Tellez] The ongoing rapid spread of COVID-19 is challenging the capacity of governments and of the World Health Organization (WHO) to timely put in place a global coordinated response to the pandemic. Developing countries and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in particular in Africa are especially vulnerable to the unfolding effects of the public health crisis. A priority area
[Sean Flynn, Jorge Contreras and Meredith Jacob] PIJIP is a founding partner of the Open COVID Pledge, https://opencovidpledge.org/, and is providing institutional support for the project. This note explains our history with the project, how the pledge works, and why we think it will be helpful. At the end of this note is a link for organizations that want to
Patent pools are private arrangements that enable participants to operate under one another others’ patent rights, to manage and administer the pooled rights on a centralized basis, and often to grant licenses of the pooled patents to third parties, with the proceeds split among the pool members according to an agreed formula. Patent pools have been around for a century
Israel’s top spy agency has been using secretly collected cellphone data to retrace the movements of those who tested positive for the coronavirus. The Polish government launched the “Home Quarantine” app so that people in quarantine can upload geo-located photos proving they’re at home. The South Korean government is using a combination of mobile phone data, credit card information and
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