Year: 2004

September 2004: TACD’s Future of WIPO Conference

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The TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Conference: The Future of WIPO

September 13-14, 2004
CICG, Geneva

(Registration Information given below)

Monday, September 13, 2004

Welcome

  • Jim Murray — TACD / BEUC
  • US TACD Rep. TBA

Panel 1 — What is the WIPO Mission?

Chair, Benedicte Federspiel, FBR
Panel Members

  • Mr. Philippe PETIT , WIPO, invited
  • Rogier Wezenbeek, European Union
  • Larry Lessig, Stanford

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2004: NGO Letter to USTR Urging a Focus on R&D to Replace Emphasis on Intellectual Property

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This is a letter, dated July 22, 2004, by six consumer groups, asking Robert Zoellick and other members of the Bush Administration, to change US trade policy, so that research and development, rather than intellectual property rights, were the focus.…