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TWN Info Service on Intellectual Property Issues (2008)
- Health:
North-South fight on IP, Benefit Sharing issues in influenza talks
by Sangeeta Shashikant (20 Dec 08)
- Key
issues unresolved at WHO meeting on influenza virus sharing by Sangeeta
Shashikant (19 Dec 08)
- Divergence
over IPR issues in technology transfer by Meena Raman (19 Dec 08)
- South
countries upset that new WIPO budget downplays development by Sangeeta
Shashikant (09 Dec 08)
- WCO
secretariat for disbanding SECURE Working Group by Sangeeta Shashikant
(02 Dec 08)
- US
military flu virus collection parallels WHO virus system by Edward
Hammond (28 Nov 08)
- Counterfeiting
activities resisted by Generic manufacturers, SMEs, NGOs (25 Nov 08)
- Chinese
premier urges global mechanism to transfer technology by Martin Khor
(17 Nov 08)
- Customs
Organisation meeting ends in some disarray by Sangeeta Shashikant
(17 Nov 08)
- NGOs
criticize Customs Organisation's TRIPS-Plus initiative by Riaz K.
Tayob (17 Nov 08)
- Beijing
conference urges overcoming of technology barriers by Martin Khor
(17 Nov 08)
- "Exceptions
and limitations" in copyright vital for South countries by Teresa
Hackett (04 Nov 08)
- Positions
unchanged on GI register/extension, TRIPS disclosure by Kanaga Raja
(04 Nov 08)
- No
Agreement For WIPO Committee On Traditional Knowledge And Folklore
by Kaitlin Mara (24 Oct 08)
- IP:
US agency claims another patent over bird flu virus materials by Edward
Hammond (22 Oct 08)
- Health:
Experts call on WHO to implement Health/IP Global Strategy by Sangeeta
Shashikant (09 Oct 08)
- EU's
EPAs can spread conditions for finance crisis to South countries by
Sanya Smith (09 Oct 08)
- Climate:
New G77-China proposal to UNFCCC on technology mechanism by Matthew
Stilwell (07 Oct 08)
- Countries
call on World Customs Organisation to be member-driven, transparent
by Sangeeta Shashikant (06 Oct 08)
- Massive
patent claims on antibodies and genes of bird flu survivors by Edward
Hammond (06 Oct 08)
- WIPO:
Assemblies went smoothly, tensions over future work remain by Sangeeta
Shashikant (06 Oct 08)
- Patenting
of climate-ready GM crops seen as biopiracy by Rajesh Chhabara (03
Oct 08)
- WIPO:
Gurry appointed new DG by WIPO Assembly by Sangeeta Shashikant (23
Sept 08)
- WIPO:
General Assembly to discuss Development Agenda work-plan by Sangeeta
Shashikant (22 Sept 08)
- WIPO:
GRULAC's proposal for Enforcement Committee calls for balance by Sangeeta
Shashikant (22 Sept 08)
- WHO-linked
centre lays patent claim related to bird flu virus by Edward Hammond
(19 Aug 08)
- WHO:
Concerns over Chair's text on sharing of flu viruses and benefits
by Sangeeta Shashikant (19 Aug 08)
- Counterfeit
issue stirs debate among WHO member states by Sangeeta Shashikant
& Riaz K Tayob (12 Aug 08)
- Controversy
on proposed IP rules at World Customs Organisation by Sangeeta Shashikant
(12 Aug 08)
- Development:
UN postal agency being roped in to enforce IPR agenda by Sangeeta
Shashikant & Riaz K Tayob (08 Aug 08)
- TWN
and South Centre analyses of SSM text (28 July 08)
- TWN's
brief analysis of 'Lamy draft' of 25 July 2008 (28 July 08)
- Different
views as WIPO strives to implement Development Agenda by Riaz K. Tayob
& K. M. Gopakumar (21 July 08)
- WIPO:
Meeting adopts report on Development Agenda activities by Riaz K.
Tayob & K. M. Gopakumar (21 July 08)
- WIPO:
Patent committee agrees on issues to re-start discussions by Riaz
K. Tayob & Sangeeta Shashikant (01 July 08)
- WIPO:
Patents committee begins work with usual North-South differences by
Sangeeta Shashikant (01 July 08)
- The
politics of polio by Pushpa M. Bhargava (01 July 08)
- Trade:
US academic exposes IP maximalists' TRIPS-Plus-Plus agenda by Sangeeta
Shashikant (24 June 08)
- WIPO:
Meeting on patent law, as Secretariat issues report by Sangeeta Shashikant
(23 June 08)
- Indian
patent office rejects aids drug patent application (23 June 08)
- Limited
Impact of FDI on Economic Growth In Latin America by Kanaga Raja (17
June 08)
- Biopiracy'
thwarted as US revokes bean patent by Arturo Barba (17 June 08)
- Brazil/U.S.
cotton case and its ramifications on trademark and patents (17 June
08)
- Trade:
WTO Director-General issues report on GI extension, TRIPS/CBD talks
by Kanaga Raja (17 June 08)
- Trade:
TRIPS Chair issues report on GI register talks by Kanaga Raja (17
June 08)
- Agreed
roadmap to complete access/benefit sharing regime by TWN (05 June
08)
- WHO:
WHA strengthens WHO's mandate on IP and Health by Sangeeta Shashikant
(04 June 08)
- WHO:
Secretariat's publications policy questioned at Board meeting by Sangeeta
Shashikant (04 June 08)
- WHA
discusses avian flu, smallpox virus stocks by Sangeeta Shashikant
(02 June 08)
- NGO
Letters to Member States & WHO DG on Publications Policy (17 May 08)
- Tough
negotiations on IP and health to continue at WHA by Sangeeta Shashikant
(17 May 08)
- Australia's
Gurry to be WIPO Director-General by Kanaga Raja & Sangeeta Shashikant
(17 May 08)
- News
on Election of new WIPO Director General (09 May 08)
- Webcast
of Civil Society Meeting with WIPO DG Candidates (09 May 08)
- Health:
Recent Thai compulsory licenses and the aftermath by Sangeeta Shashikant
(01 Apr 08)
- WHO:
Slow progress in talks on IPRs and innovation by Riaz K. Tayob (01
Apr 08)
- TRIPS
disclosure proposal supported by majority by Martin Khor (19 Mar 08)
- WIPO:
Copyright meeting ends, retains 3 items on its agenda by Riaz K. Tayob
(15 Mar 08)
- WIPO:
Work plan on "limitations and exceptions" proposed at copyright meet
by Riaz K. Tayob (15 Mar 08)
- WIPO:
Traditional knowledge group concludes meeting by Sangeeta Shashikant
(15 Mar 08)
- Action
needed to expand Copyright Exceptions and Limitations by Gwen Hinze
(13 Mar 08)
- Development
Agenda meeting ends, slow progress on implementation by Sangeeta Shashikant
(12 Mar 08)
- WIPO:
Discussion begins on implementing the Development Agenda by Riaz K.
Tayob (06 Mar 08)
- Compulsory
Licensing for Cancer drugs in Thailand by Bangkok Post (25 Feb 08)
- CBD
group makes some progress on access-benefit talks by Lim Li Lin (12
Feb 08)
- NGOs
calls for legally-binding ABS regime by Kanaga Raja (12 Feb 08)
- WHO
publications will come under committee review by Riaz K. Tayob (30
Jan 08)
- WHO
Executive Board discusses avian flu issues by Sangeeta Shashikant
& Riaz K. Tayob (30 Jan 08)
- WHO
Board debates "global health security", climate, IPRs by Riaz K. Tayob
(30 Jan 08)
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