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1 day ago · Lokesh Vyas; Luca Schirru; Sean Flynn Members of the research team from the Program of Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP)’ Geneva Center published a “Documentary History of the Broadcast Treaty in the SCCR” (2025).

May 27, 2024 · As described in “Article 6 of the WIPO IGC Treaty: Restraining Revocation,” many laws in developing countries explicitly authorize revocation of granted patents for non-compliance with genetic resource disclosure requirements that may have to be changed if the Treaty is ratified by them.[9]. A Victory for WIPO and Brazil. The conclusion of the treaty was a victory for the leadership of ...

Jun 21, 2022 · Communia Association, Link (CC-0) See also: Blog announcing the release of these recommendations. This page lists the 20 policy recommendations launched in May 2022. These supersede the 14 policy recommendations that we published in 2011 and that we evaluated in 2021.The policy recommendations have been developed though a consultation process that gathered input from more than 60 academics ...

Dec 19, 2024 · By Andres Izquierdo and Katie McGee. The 49th session of WIPO’s Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) concluded with strong debates and unresolved issues dominating the discussions related to the draft texts on traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCEs). Despite efforts to reconcile diverging views, the session highlighted deep-seated challenges in achieving consensus ...

Sep 24, 2024 · A lawsuit filed against six major academic publishers alleges that restrictive practices that maximize profits at the expense of scholars and the public violate U.S. antirust laws (see Reuters).The publishers named as defendants in the suit include Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wolters Kluwer.

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Allan Rocha de Souza [1] and Luca Schirru [2] On November 18 and 19, the G20 highest representatives met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when they issued the 2024 conclusive document of the Brazilian Presidency, the Leaders of the...

A White Paper on Proposed Revisions by the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), S. 2140, published by Joshua D. Sarnoff and Charles Duan, critiques the 2023 legislation which seeks to revise the doctrine of subject matter eligibility in U.S. patent law.. The paper argues that the proposed changes are poorly conceived, ignoring centuries of legal history and …