Essentially Derived Varieties (EDV) are a very interesting topic in international Plant Variety Rights, a valuable life science IP right. Since its introduction with the UPOV 1991 treaty, EDV formed the object of intense debate within the WIPO-attached agency, trying to find the right…
L’8 Settembre 2017 il Tribunale di Bari, in composizione collegiale, ha rigettato il reclamo proposto dalla Sun World International LLC avverso l’ordinanza emessa dal giudice di prime cure il 3 Luglio 2017 con cui, in accoglimento delle ragioni della Puglia…
Source: IP Watch The number of candidates to be the next director general of the World Health Organization was reduced from five to three tonight, with Ethiopia, Pakistan and the United Kingdom still in the running. But in a race…
Source: IP Watch Copyright, copyright and more copyright tops Europe's intellectual property agenda for 2017. With the EU institutions mulling major reforms to copyright laws, publishers are pushing for a right to bar unauthorised copying or reuse of their content…
Source: IP Watch The Medicines Patent Pool announced today that it has signed a license agreement with Johns Hopkins University for a candidate tuberculosis treatment. Although seen as a major step forward by public health groups, they said the agreement…
Source: IP Watch George Willingmyre writes: The process a Standards Developing Organization (SDO) employs to revise its patent policy is an aspect of the SDO’s competitive posture in the global marketplace. A dearth of research exists on the processes SDOs…
Source: IP Watch BANGKOK – So-called disruptive innovation - currently referring to the technologies of Internet of Things, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and big data – are changing the way people live their life and affecting existing traditional industries, but…
Source: IP Watch More than a decade after World Trade Organization member states approved the first-ever legal amendment to a WTO agreement, the change to the international intellectual property agreement has entered into effect. Five more members ratified the amendment…
Source: IP Watch At the opening of the World Health Organization Executive Board meeting today, a call by India for an agenda item on the report of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines was denied. Meanwhile,…
Source: IP Watch Just a day after US President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament passed a recommendation in favour of adopting the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement…