South Centre & CIEL Intellectual Property Quarterly Update

Intellectual Property &Sustainable Development

Overview of Developments in Multilateral, Plurilateral, and Bilateral Fora

The South Centre and CIEL IP Quarterly Update is intended to facilitate a broader perspective of international intellectual property negotiations by providing a summary of relevant developments in multilateral, plurilateral, and bilateral fora. Moreover, each IP Quarterly Update focuses on a significant topic in the intellectual property and development discussions to demonstrate the importance of following developments in different fora and the risks of lack of coordination between the various negotiations.

The CIEL IP Quarterly update is now published directly online, in a new blog format which allows for near real-time information sharing. Below are previous editions of the South Centre and CIEL IP Quarterly Update, which are also available on the IP and Sustainable Development Blog (here). Additional intellectual property-related documents are located on the CIEL Trade & Sustainable Development Publications Page and blog.

• CIEL Worldview Blog - Intellectual Property (2011- Present)
  
  
  

• South Center & CIEL IP Quarterly Update - Blog (2009-2010)
  

• Third Quarter 2009: An International Legal Framework to Protect Traditional Knowledge and Folklore -- More Talk at WIPO or Negotiations Finally Underway?

• Second Quarter 2009: The Roadmap for Patent Cooperation Treaty Reforms: Procedural Streamlining for Substantive Harmonization?

• First Quarter 2009: Counterfeit Medical Products: Need for Caution Against Co-Opting Public HealthConcerns for IP Protection and Enforcement

• Fourth Quarter 2008: The Technology Transfer Debate in the UNFCCC: Politics, Patents, and Confusion

• Third Quarter 2008: The International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT): Is the WHO on the Right Track?

• Second Quarter 2008: The Dangers of Including Patent Infringments in ACTA: some implications for Access to Medicines

• First Quareter 2008 The World Customs Organization and Border Measures for Enforcement of IP Rights: Setting New Standards of Intellectual Property Enforcement through the Back Door?

• Fourth Quarter 2007 - What is the Real Relationship between the CBD Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing and WIPO and the WTO?

• Third Quarter 2007 - Rwanda and Canada: Leading the Implementation of the August 2003 Decision for Import/Export of Pharmaceuticals Produced Under Compulsory License

• Second Quarter 2007 - The Proposed WIPO Framework on Tradional Knowledge: Does It Meet Indigenous Peoples' Demands?

• First Quarter 2007 - Access to Knowledge: Open Access Models for Increased Access to Educational Resources and Research

• Fourth Quarter 2006 - Intellectual Property in European Partnership Agreements with the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of Counties

• Third Quarter 2006 - Innovation, Essential Health Research and IPRS: The WHO Working Group

• Second Quarter 2006 - [Available soon]

• First Quarter 2006 - Extension of the Transitional Period for LCDs: Flexibility to Create a Viable Technological Base or Simply (a Little) More Time?

• Fourth Quarter 2005 - The 6 December 2005 TRIPS Amendment and Public Health at the WTO

• Third Quarter 2005 - The Relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and the CBD: The Case for Disclosure Requirements

• Second Quarter 2005 - Moving Forward the WIPO Development Agenda Process: Proposals for Consideration at the Third Session of the IIM

• First Quarter 2005 - Limiting Access to Knowledge: Copyright Provisions in Bilateral Trade Agreements

• Fourth Quarter 2004 - The TRIPS Agreement at a Crossroads: Intellectual Property and Development Concerns in the Lead Up to the Hong Kong Ministerial

• Third Quarter 2004 - Access and Benefit Sharing under the FAO ITPGFRA - Intellectual Property Considerations

• Second Quarter 2004 - WIPO General Assembly: Discussion to be (and not to be) Made

• First Quarter 2004 - Non-violation Complaints in Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements: Making the WTO Process Irrelevant