Sisule 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.
28 July 2011 @ 15:15
by Sisule F. Musungu MSF Launches an Ideas Contest on Revising TRIPS
Sisule F. Musungu – Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Access to Medicines Campaign has launched an Ideas Contest on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary (November 2011) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health. The main question being asked is whether the TRIPS Agreement can be reformed to meet public health needs. An interesting question. Looking forward to seeing the winning entries.
3 February 2011 @ 0:00
by Daniele Dionisio Access to medicines: possible boost from a new balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region
Daniele Dionisio - New to IQsensato’s Guest Papers section is a short paper entitled Access to medicines: possible boost from a new balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region contributed by myself (Member, European Parliament Working Group on Innovation, Access to Medicines and Poverty-Related Diseases).
26 November 2010 @ 14:14
by IQsensato Intellectual Property Dynamics in Africa’s Informal Economies
Dick Kawooya and Sisule Musungu – Recommendation 34 of the WIPO Development Agenda calls upon WIPO to “conduct a study on contraints to intellectual property prtotection in the informal economy, including the tangible costs and benefits of intellectual property protection in particular in relation to generation of employment”. This Recommendation was formulated based on an original proposal by the African Group at WIPO. Consequently, while the Recommendation is relevant to all developing countries, it is of particular interest to Africa. The WIPO Secretariat has now prepared a Discussion Paper as a basis for the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) to decide on the way forward in implementing the Recommendation. In essence, however, the Discussion Paper mainly seeks to frame the questions that ought to be asked as opposed to providing substantive suggestions.
30 June 2010 @ 15:15
by Sisule F. Musungu Why WIPO Must Rethink its Committee Procedures and the Meaning of its Programme & Budget
Sisule 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”.
