Proposal for a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Public goods
On December 1, 2009, I presented a proposal for a WTO agreement on the supply of global public goods, at a joint KEI/IQSensato side event at the Geneva WTO ministerial meeting. The text of the proposal...
View ArticleSeventh WTO Ministerial will take decision on IPR 'non-violation' violations...
The Seventh WTO Ministerial Conference is taking place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 30, 2009 to December 2, 2009. Unlike previous Ministerial Conferences in Seattle (1999), Doha (2001), Cancun...
View ArticleRethinking compulsory licensing for export: WTO members hold informal...
Friday, 12 February 2010 Around 100 Members of the World Trade Organization attended informal consultations today in Room E (a mainstay of the green room consultations) to discuss the implementation of...
View ArticleWTO responds to concerns of the European Parliament on ACTA
In a letter dated 4 May 2010, the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Pascal Lamy has responded to questions and concerns of the European Parliament regarding the Anti...
View ArticleWTO TRIPS Council (June 8-9) to deliberate on Paragraph 6 implementation and...
The upcoming WTO Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Council) meets on 8-9 June 2010 (next Tuesday and Wednesday); Martin Glass (Hong Kong) is the current chair of...
View ArticleProgram for WTO TRIPS Council (June 8-9) including discussion on Paragraph 6...
The following WTO aerogram contains the agenda for the upcoming WTO Council for TRIPS meeting to be held in Geneva from 8 June 2010 to 9 June 2010. Paragraph 2 and agenda items l and m will be of...
View ArticleChina describes TRIPS Council proposal on ACTA and other plurilateral...
At a June 28, 2010 Geneva workshop on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Dr. Zhao Hong, from the Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the World Trade Organization, distributed a...
View ArticleThe July 23, 1990 Draft WTO text on TRADE IN COUNTERFEIT AND PIRATED GOODS
The July 23, 1990 draft of the TRIPS Agreement contained the following proposal to deal with trade in counterfeit and pirated goods. PART IX: TRADE IN COUNTERFEIT AND PIRATED GOODS 1. Preamble...
View ArticleUSTR positions in China WTO TRIPS dispute at odds with talking points on ACTA...
Use of Article 1.1 of the TRIPS in the US/China WTO dispute over the enforcement of intellectual property rights USTR claims that Article 1.2.1 of ACTA provides the flexibility to overlook...
View ArticleIntervention of Brazil to the WTO TRIPS Council (March 2011) providing...
On Tuesday, 1 March 2011, Brazil made the following intervention at the WTO Council for TRIPS during discussions of the paragraph 6 system. Mr. Chairman, Brazil welcomes the opportunity for this...
View ArticleKEI/South Centre panel on Doha+10: The State of Implementation, 14 November 2011
Doha +10 On 14 November 2001, at its Ministerial in Doha, Qatar, the World Trade Organization (WTO) adopted the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and public health. Exactly 10 years to the date,...
View ArticleUSG cable on WTO TRIPS Council meeting of October 25-26 2005, discussion on...
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2005/11/05GENEVA2798.html Cable subject: Wto Trips Council October 25-26 2005 Cable written Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:17 UTC TRANSITION PERIOD FOR LEAST-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES-REQUEST...
View ArticleKEI/IQsensato panel at WTO Public Forum: Proposal for a WTO Agreement on the...
WTO PUBLIC FORUM 2011 TITLE: Proposal for a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Knowledge as a Public Good DATE: Wednesday, 21 September 2011 TIME: 16:15-18:15 VENUE: Room E (located on 3rd floor), World...
View ArticleWhat the 2001 Doha Declaration Changed
As the UN meets to discuss non-communicable diseases, one area of controversy is the effort by White House trade officials and the European Commissioner for Trade to block any mention in a Political...
View ArticleAmbassador Shameem Ahsan (Bangladesh) remarks on UN HLP - Opportunities to...
On 1 March 2017, Bangladesh, Brazil, India and South Africa, the Secretariat of the United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines and the South Centre convened a side event...
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