Pedro Paranagua – Brazil’s Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), a higher education institution comprised of four Schools (Economic, Business, Law, and Social Science), placed amongst the world’s top-5 “policy-maker think-tank” according to the US magazine Foreign Policy has launched three new books (in Brazilian Portuguese) on intellectual property -related fields.
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Three books on IP launched in Brazil
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Stuck in the First Gear: Moving Forward the Discussion on International Transfer of Technology – Part I
Saturday, February 6th, 2010Robinson Esalimba – Notwithstanding the high regard one might have for a computer software engineer, it would be outrageous to consider commissioning one to design a drug for malaria, or even still, that the drug should be produced in a car manufacturing plant. Yet, it is precisely in this manner that most discussions on transfer of technology have carried on; as if what is good for the car is good enough for the drug. The proposed World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Development Agenda project on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer (CDIP/4/7), which is up for discussion at the fifth session of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) in April 2010, has the opportunity to change this thinking, but only if it redefines the problem that it seeks to solve. In this post and in Part II, I propose how this can be done.
WIPO General Assemblies 2009: Reflections on the Report of the Director General
Sunday, September 27th, 2009Sisule F. Musungu – Dr. Francis Gurry’s Report to the Members States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) at the opening of the 2009 General Assemblies can be summed up as a call to rethinking and reshaping culture, systems, governance, norms and strategy. How WIPO’s culture evolves, how the global intellectual property (IP) system is governed and reshaped for the 21st Century, the balance in the norms that are generated by the organization and the strategy for engagement and dialogue will determine the contribution of WIPO to addressing today’s pressing global challenges; from development through to tackling climate change. In this post, I offer some reflections on where WIPO is one year into the new administration and on the DG’s thoughts on the challenges going forward.
ACTA Revealed: The danger signs become clearer
Sunday, April 12th, 2009The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) “represents a case of ‘counterfeit global policy-making’. This is because: (1) Its justifications, considering the existence of TRIPS, are dubious if not fraudulent; (2) it seeks confrontation, particularly with developing countries as opposed to cooperation and ignores the efforts by the latter group of countries to implement TRIPS in resource-poor settings; (3) it circumvents legitimate multilateral forums such as WTO and WIPO to avoid global accountability adopting the discredited “you are with us or against us” attitude; and (4) it is burdened with a huge democratic deficit in the countries where the idea has originated.”
