IQsensato – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has announced the provisional dates for its Committee and Assembly meetings for 2012. In a communication to WIPO Member States and observers, the Director General, Francis Gurry indicates that there will be at least 16 Committee and Assembly meetings in 2012 starting in February. Most of the meetings, as is the practice, are slated to take at least one week. The dates of the various meetings are as follows:
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WIPO Announces the Dates for 2012 Meetings
Thursday, December 1st, 2011WIPO to Launch New Annual Report
Sunday, November 13th, 2011Sisule Musungu – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will, on 14 November 2011, be launching a new annual report - The World Intellectual Property Report. The 2011 edition will focus on the “Changing Face of Innovation” and will be describing key rends in the innovation landscape, including how the innovation process has become more open, collaborative and international.
Why WIPO Must Rethink its Committee Procedures and the Meaning of its Programme & Budget
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Sisule F. Musungu – There was anticipation, hope and a sense that multilateralism was experiencing one of those good moments. That was last week at the 20th Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The anticipation and hope, by many, was that the Committee meeting would end with a definite work programme towards a legal instrument to improve access to copyright material for those who are blind or with visual impairment or with print disability. Finally, the world of intellectual property (IP) was going to act decisively to end “the Book Famine”.
Three books on IP launched in Brazil
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Pedro 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.
Stuck in the First Gear: Moving Forward the Discussion on International Transfer of Technology – Part II
Saturday, February 6th, 2010Robinson Esalimba – One of the renowned American inventors from the last century and former head of research at General Motors, Charles Kettering, was famous for his snazzy quotes and sound bites. One of my favourites is; “A problem well stated, is a problem half solved.” I couldn’t agree more. In the first part of my post on Stuck in the First Gear, I suggested that the draft WIPO proposal 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) from April 26 to 30, 2010; is unlikely, as currently framed, to move forward the discussion on transfer of technology. This is because the problem has not been well stated.
