Other intellectual property
Recap on the House vote on Biosimilars
Submitted by James Love on 2. August 2009 - 13:56The rollcall for the biosimilars vote in on the Internet here. Based upon the count released by the committee, voting for the Eshoo Amendment were 26 Democrats and 21 Republicans. Voting against were 1 republican (Deal) and 10 Democrats. One Republican did not vote. I have bolded the Nay votes.
Mexico’s proposed deletion of consumer rights in the IGWG Text
Submitted by James Love on 8. November 2007 - 20:15Tomorrow morning (Friday the 9th), the IGWG finally takes up Element 5, the intellectual property text. These are the deletions to the text being requested by Mexico.
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ELEMENT 3
This would include:
building innovative capacity in science and technology and traditional medicine/genetic resources, in agreement with the legislation existing in the Parties on this issues;
rational health-orientated intellectual property management. (Mexico suggest delete)
The Casting treaty? No, It’s not really dead yet
Submitted by Manon Ress on 22. June 2007 - 10:13Friday June 22 1 pm
The following is circulating right now:
Draft conclusions of the Second Special Session of the SCCR on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations
Prepared by the Chair
SNIP
The Committee made the following recommendation:
SNIP
The Director General
-convenes a session for joint analysis of notions, terms and conceptual basis of the instrument
The General Assembly
-decides that a Third Special Session of the SCCR be convened in November/December 2007
US del clarifies (sort of) position on “by any means”
Submitted by James Love on 21. June 2007 - 7:09This is technical. The United States delegation says
“US did oppose deletion of “by any means” so that simultaneous retransmission of traditional broadcasts on the internet is covered…..but we never spoke on deferred retransmissions last night.”
However, in the texts that have been made public, the “by any means” applies to both cases. The negotiations are now being held in secret.
What can we do about the Casters’ Treaty? Pray?
Submitted by Manon Ress on 20. June 2007 - 18:09Maybe by now you’ve read the Joint NGO Statement?
Joint NGO Statement: Reject the WIPO Broadcast Treaty
We call upon WIPO delegates to reject the proposed WIPO Broadcast
Treaty……
It’s printed on yellow paper and looks like a REAL NGO flyer opposing a treaty that in fact everyone here (except the broadcasters) cannot stand. Delegates come to me to complain that no one likes it but no one seems to dare tell!
Ted Miller on sports and Intellectual property insanity
Submitted by James Love on 17. June 2007 - 7:22Ted Miller writes about sports in the Seattle PI (a paper I delivered door to door a long time ago). This is his column Intellectual property law begets insanity.
WIPO Development Agenda: Language on open collaborative models in
Submitted by thiru on 15. June 2007 - 7:18We have heard that negotiations have finished on Cluster D and E were wrapped up last evening. Cluster C has one issue pending. As of 10 AM Geneva time, only the text of Cluster D was available. Particularly significant is the agreement on the text of having WIPO Member States exchange information on experiences on open collaborative projects such as the Human Genome Project. Also important was the agreement on language on impact assessment studies.
