Title: Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health: An Effective Solution?
Date: 8 November 2016, 13:00-15:00
Venue: Room S2, WTO Building, Rue de Lausanne 154, CH-1211 Geneva 21
Organizer: The South Centre, co-sponsored by Brazil, China, India, South Africa, MSF (more…)
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of September 2016. (more…)
Title: South Centre-DNDi MoU Signing
Date: 6 October 2016
Venue: Geneva
Organizer: The South Centre, DNDi
South Centre Statement to the WIPO Assemblies 2016
The statement highlights that the greatest challenge for developing countries and LDCs in the area of intellectual property (IP) is the proliferation of regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements that impose IP obligations, together with the coercive external political and economic pressure to restrain from making use of the flexibilities in the IP system.
Title: Panel Discussion on “Designing Sui Generis Plant Variety Protection System in Developing
Countries and the Role of WIPO”
Date: 7 October 2016, 13:00-15:00
Venue: WIPO New Building, Room 0.107
Organizer: The South Centre, The Third World Network (TWN) and and the Association for Plant
Breeding for Benefit of Society (APBREBES)
Title: The Future WIPO Development Agenda
Date: 4 October 2016, 13:00-15:00
Venue: WIPO, Room 13.1
Organizer: South Centre
Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Challenges for Developing Countries
On 21 September 2016, a High Level Meeting was held on antimicrobial resistance at the sides of the United Nations General Assembly. It was followed by the adoption of a political declaration. This declaration paves the way for new coordinated actions on antimicrobial resistance backed by higher political commitment, on the basis of the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (GAP) of the World Health Organization (WHO). (more…)
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of August 2016. (more…)
This update provides a snapshot of the activities of the Development, Innovation and Intellectual Property Programme during the month of July 2016. (more…)
Innovation and the Global Expansion of Intellectual Property Rights: Unfulfilled Promises
The incorporation of intellectual property into trade agreements has not proven to bring about the promised benefits. The premises that have underpinned the global strengthening and expansion of intellectual property through such agreements – namely that the same standards of protection are suitable for countries with different levels of development and that innovation will be boosted – do not match the reality. (more…)
The IP Negotiations Monitor summarizes the latest developments in multilateral and regional fora where intellectual property negotiations are taking place, and informs on upcoming meetings and events.
(Covering period: April-June 2016) (more…)
Intellectual Property and Access to Science
The boundaries between scientific and technological knowledge are nebulous in some technical fields, such as the biological sciences and their applications. This has led to the appropriation under patents of knowledge (such as on specific genes) of scientific nature, which may not only have negative effects for the further development of science and new technological contributions, but also encroach on the fundamental right of access to science. (more…)
