June 20, 2005
Brazil attempts to take over the agenda
Brazil and their supporters (Friends of
Development) have submitted a proposed agenda to the Chairman. It is a
surprisingly blatant attempt (to me, anyway) to completely dictate the
agenda of the m ...
June 20, 2005
New UK proposal seeks to restrict development discussions to the permanent committee
One of the ironies of this entire development
agenda debate at WIPO has been that there is ALREADY a permanent committee
at WIPO tasked with considering the role of IP in development, the Permanent
...
June 20, 2005
A new proposal by Bahrain
First observation from the 2nd of WIPO's
meetings on the development agenda (henceforth often referred to as IIM/2,
in WIPO's nomenclature), is a proposal from Bahrain, which has been supported
by ...
June 19, 2005
We'll be in the room at WIPO
Beginning Monday morning, we'll be in the
room at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). We'll be blogging
live on developments, not only what's going on in the room, but also what's
...
June 10, 2005
Weakness of Wiki
Travelling on business today, but just
wanted to draw attention to an
excellent posting on the weakness and insufficiency of the wiki model for
disseminating information.
This is something I'v ...
June 8, 2005
In case you didn't agree with my characterization of the WIPO on-line discussion forum . . .
In case you didn't agree with my
earlier posting about the probable uselessness of the WIPO on-line discussion
forum on IP, here's a little
nugget I noticed this afternoon after a little browsing:
...
June 7, 2005
Loonies on parade in Australia
Apparently it's a holiday release for the
loony bins in Australia. That's the only conclusion I can reach after seeing
this
article in the Sidney Morning Herald.
Either that, or apparently anyb ...
June 7, 2005
Piracy on China's "Silk Street"
There's an
excellent article on China's piracy of IP goods
in the June 13th issue of Time. ...
June 6, 2005
Live blogging from WIPO's Development Agenda meetings June 20-22.
Speaking of WIPO, I'll be attending WIPO's
Development Agenda meetings June 20-22 in Geneva, and blogging live from
the meetings.
It's been fun blogging live from WIPO the last two times I've go ...
June 6, 2005
WIPO's on-line discussion forum on IP in the Information Society
WIPO is sponsoring an on-line discussion
forum on IP. Here's
the link.
I honestly don't know why they're doing
it--or rather, I don't know why they're doing it THE WAY they're doing
it.
It's ...
June 6, 2005
Brazil moves toward busting patents
While I was gone on vacation, Brazil's
lower house took a major step toward busting pharmaceutical patents, as
they have been threatening for some time.
Here's
the story. Now, apparently,
it m ...
May 19, 2005
Pirates of Star Wars
As should have been expected by now, thieves
are making the new Star Wars movie available on-line.
Here's
an article quoting MPAA President Dan Glickman.
And
here's a link to the ABC News ...
May 18, 2005
Why I'm an IP kinda guy
I thought it might be interesting to demonstrate
at least part of why I (and IPI) care about IP.
There has been at least an implicit and perhaps explicit accusation that
the only reason I or any ...
May 14, 2005
Counterfeiting is out of control
Here's an article from Friday's International
Herald Tribune on the enormous
scale of the counterfeiting problem. ...
May 12, 2005
U.S. consumers hurt by foreign price controls
Here's an article
by Richard Rahn on how price
controls in other nations are the root cause of their lack of access to
drugs, and why reimportation in the U.S. is such a bad idea. ...
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