SCCR 29: Public Interest Organizations Statements regarding the Broadcasting Treaty
Also presented during the afternoon plenary, here are 3 statements by public interest organizations, the TACD, EFF and CIS:
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SCCR 29: Statements by European broadcasters and push back by copyright owners (IFPI & FIAP)
SCCR29 At 3pm, the plenary reconvened and the NGOs made their statements regarding the rights, definitions and concepts of the proposed broadcasting treaty discussed during the informal with the help of charts.
On the public interest side we only had KEI, TACD, EFF and CIS. I will post these statements in another blog. Here are 3 statements that are good examples of what the arguments were for the broadcasters (the European Broadcasting Union) followed by the push back by the IFFPI (representing the music industry) and finally the FIAP (film industry also pushing back).
SCCR 29 Morning Session: Is the Broadcasting Treaty crawling back?
The morning session of SCCR 29 (Dec 8-12, 2014) ended with a coffee break which will be followed by informals (that we are not allowed to report on at this point). After the usual decisions this morning i.e, Adoption of the agenda of the twenty ninth session then Accreditation of new non governmental organizations (and yes, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) is in!) we had the Adoption of the Report of the Twenty-Eighth Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. Continue Reading
Patents with government interests, by disease, 2010 to 2013
The attached PDF file provides counts on the number of patents with various search terms in the specification (spec/”search term”), and the number of those patents that declare either government rights in the patents (govt/government), an assignment to the US government (an/”united states of america”), or both. The complete counts are in the PDF file. The queries were done by Claire Cassedy on December 5, 2014.
WIPO patent committee engaged in heated talks on work sharing, limitations & exceptions, client confidentiality
WIPO patent committee (SCP21): Intervention of Pakistan on Patents and Health
On Wednesday, 5 November 2014, Pakistan delivered the following intervention on patents and health.
Agenda 7 Statement on patents and health
1. General statement
Mr. Chair,
I will make this statement in national capacity,
WIPO patent committee (SCP21) to discuss International Nonproprietary Names and Exceptions and Limitations to Patent Rights
In the words of the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) was created,
created in 1998 to serve as a forum to discuss issues, facilitate coordination and provide guidance concerning the progressive international development of patent law.
Some news stories on cancer prices.
U.S.
October 27, 2014. Bill Saporito, “Hospitals Furious at Cancer-Drug Price Hikes,” Time Magazine.
October 26, 2014. John Fauber, “FDA approves cancer drugs without proof they’re extending lives,” Journal Sentinel.
Obama officials seek end of WIPO program on limitations and exceptions to patent rights in developing countries
During the WIPO 2014 General Assembly’s discussions of patents and health in the context of the work of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patent (SCP), the Obama Administration embraced an aggressive position against WIPO technical assistance on the use of patent limitations and exceptions.
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