Statement of Brazil to the 48th General Assembly of WIPO, September 2010
The Permanent Representative of Brazil, Roberto Azevedo, delivered the following statement to the 48th session of the WIPO General Assembly. The intervention was delivered in Portuguese; below is the English translation.
SEPTEMBER 2010
Statement Delivered by the Permanent Representative of Brazil, Ambassador Roberto Azevedo
Mr. Chairman,
Let me start by congratulating you on the excellent job you have been doing in conducting the work of WIPO’s General Assembly.
Why does the Obama Administration insist on secrecy of the draft Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) text?
Civil law injunctions and damages for infringement are national security hot spots 4% (10 votes) ACTA negotiators don’t want people asking informed questions about the substance of the agreement 69% (191 votes) No one in the Administration cares enough about… Continue Reading
Timeline of privileges regarding the commercialization and use of knowledge. Part 3: 2000 and after
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This is work in progress, and is part of a larger project on timelines. This particular timeline is unfinished, and may contain errors.
Timeline of privileged regarding the commercialization and use of knowledge
The 18 uses of “at least” in the ACTA text
In looking at the scope issues, it might be helpful to examine the 18 places where the August 25, 2010 version of the ACTA text uses the term, “at least.”
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ARTICLE 2.x: GENERAL OBLIGATIONS WITH RESPECT TO ENFORCEMENT
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Gary Locke and Microsoft
The U.S. Department of Commerce has been given a high profile role in intellectual property policies in the Obama Administration. The Department is headed by Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke. Locke is the best known as the former two term governor of the State of Washington. After leaving the government, he has also been a lawyer and consultant, including to Microsoft. Here are a few data points on that relationship.
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WIPO Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain (released May 2010)In May 2010 the WIPO Secretariat published a paper entitled “WIPO Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain” prepared by Professor Séverine Dusollier (Professor, University of Namur, Belgium). This study was produced as an output of the WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property’s (CDIP) thematic project on intellectual property and the public domain which is predicated upon Recommendations 16 and 20 of the Development Agenda. Part 1: Notes on the August 25, 2010 version of the ACTA consolidated textKEI has obtained a copy of the August 25, 2010 version of the ACTA consolidated negotiating text. This is Part 1 of our initial notes on the document. (Part 2 is available here.) (revised September 9, 2010) PreambleThe preamble in the August, 25, 2010 text includes 10 paragraphs, of which only 3 do not have brackets. EB101.R24: 1998 WHO EB proposal for the WHO Revised drug strategy101st Session Revised drug strategyThe Executive Board RECOMMENDS to the Fifty-first World Health Assembly the adoption of the following resolution: The Fifty-first World Health Assembly, Recalling resolutions WHA39.27, WHA41.16, WHA43.20, WHA45.27, WHA47.12, WHA47.13, WHA47.16, WHA47.17, and WHA49.14; Having considered the report of the Director-General on the revised drug strategy[1]; WHA 52.19, the Revised Drug StrategyA pdf copy of the resolution is attached to this page. THE FIFTY-SECOND WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY Agenda Item 13 Revised Drug StrategyThe Fifty-second World Health Assembly, Recalling resolution WHA39.27, WHA41.16, WHA43.20, WHA45.27, WHA47.12, WHA47.13, WHA47.16, WHA47.17, and WHA49.14; Having considered the report of the Director-General on the revised drug strategy[1]; May 27, 1998 Department of State cable: REVISED DRUG STRATEGY AT W.H.O.: ATMOSPHERICS OF THE DEBATE, AND RECOMMENDED PLAN OF ACTIONCONFIDENTIAL RELEASED IN FULL PAGE 01 GENEVA 03470 01 OF 09 271621Z ACTION 10-00 425261 271705Z /38 O 271615Z MAY 98 FM USMISSION GENEVA |