WIPO GA, September 25, 2009
Semi live blogging, for Friday, at the WIPO 2009 General Assembly
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Author: James Love
Group B opening statement at 2009 WIPO GA
In WIPO, Group B is a club of high income countries. This is the statement Group B delivered in the Agenda item for general statements, at the 2009 WIPO GA.
September 21, 2009
47th Series of Meetings of WIPO
Geneva, September 22 to October 1, 2009
Group B: opening statement
Mr. Chairman
Live blogging WIPO GA, September 24, 2009
WIPO has elected two vice-chairs for the GA, Tunisia and Turkey. Tunisia now chairing.
Chile made a very nice statement on the public domain, copyright L&E, and access to knowledge.
The Tunisia chair just ruled that NGOs cannot speak today, and may only submit written statements. We may have opportunity later this week. The excuse was the “long list” of NGOs, but that not true. There were only about 4 or 5 on the list, including KEI, TWN and the WBU.
U.S. general statement at 2009 WIPO GA
The following is the statement that the United States asked be included in the record for Agenda item 5 (General Statements) of the 2009 WIPO General Assembly.
World Intellectual Property Organization
Assemblies of the Member States
September 22 to October 1, 2009
Assemblies of the Member States
September 22 to October 1, 2009
AGENDA ITEM 5: General Statements
BACKGROUND:
WIPO GA, September 23, 2009
This is a semi-live blog that will be edited during the day.
It’s Wed, September 23rd, and WIPO is winding up a relatively boring two days of a high level Ministerial segment. Many delegates felt this was poorly organized, with notices going out fairly late, and not much preliminary work or focus. Tomorrow begins the more substantive agenda.
2009 WIPO General Assembly begins
Every year at the end of September, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) holds a General Assembly (GA). The GA hears reports from all WIPO committees, approves budgets and top staff appointments, and sets the agenda for the next year. This year’s GA started today, with a large number of patent and copyright office heads, trade negotiators and NGOs in attendance.
The Right to Development Criteria, applied to TDR and the Global Fund
For several years, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has been working on mechanisms to implement a 1986 UN Resolution on the “Right to Development.” To this end, the HRC has created a Working Group on the Right to Development, and a High Level Task Force On The Implementation Of The Right To Development.
Humanitarian Uses of Patented Inventions
This note concerns two areas of policy concerning humanitarian uses of patents. (1), a recommended exception to patent rights for humanitarian uses, and (2), the licensing of patents for humanitarian uses. Both examples focus on access to essential medical technologies.… Continue Reading
Obama Administration role in the regulation of prices for medicine and medical devices in Japan
On July 6, 2009, a report of the the U.S.-Japan Regulatory Reform and Competition Policy Initiative was presented to President Obama and Prime Minister Aso of Japan. The report provides an insight into the degree that the U.S. government tries to influence prices for medicines and medical devices in foreign markets. Here, as in other foreign markets, the U.S. government seeks to raise prices, and to give industry an even greater role in setting the prices for their products.
NYT: PhRMA to support Baucus version of health bill
According to a report by Duff Wilson in the Sunday New York Times, Much of PhRMA’s $150 million in advertising will be spent pushing Senator Baucus’s version of the health “reform” legislation.