In my earlier writings on World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) work on patents (e.g., in the paper in 2003 on TRIPS-plus at WIPO with Graham Dutfield and a 2005 paper on Rethinking Innovation and Development)  I characterised WIPO’s Patent Agenda as one driven by a partisan Secretariat (the International Bureau), in industry and ideology-dominated processes and lacking in socio-economic analysis.  Since then, thanks to, among other things, the development agenda process in WIPO and enlightened leadership, a lot has changed.  Read the rest of this entry »