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Innovation Patent

Patent Statistics: A Clue towards the Underlying ‘Momentum’ and ‘Acceleration’

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Many may have followed the press release by the WIPO earlier this month declaring that in 2019 China had surpassed the United States to become the largest filer of international patent applications for the first time. That is, number of the PCT applications originating from China is the largest in the world as on 2019. PCT applications originating from China were 58,990, which represents a 11% growth from the previous year and almost 2400% increase from 2005. The number of…


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Geographical Indication

Should India Join the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement, 2015?

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WIPO’s Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications (“the Geneva Act”) was adopted on May 20, 2015. On February 26, the Geneva Act officially entered into force after the European Union acceded to the same. Currently, the Geneva Act is effective in 31 countries (Albania, Cambodia, North Korea, Samoa and 27 EU member countries). How is the Geneva Act different from the Lisbon Agreement? The enactment of the Geneva Act was a result of…


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Singapore’s Daren Tang Elected as Director General of WIPO amidst a Bitter US-China Face-off – What’s in Store for the Global South and the Development Agenda?

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We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Sachin Sathyarajan on the recent election of Singapore’s Daren Tang as the Director General of WIPO. Sachin is a specialist in international law and policy. He is currently engaged as a Senior Research Associate at Jindal Global Law School in India. He also serves as a consultant to the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. He had previously worked with international organizations in Geneva including the World Intellectual Property Organization…


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Overlaps in IP

WIPO Public Consultation on AI and Intellectual Property

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The World Intellectual Property Organisation has called for public comments as part of its process to develop a policy on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Rights. The call is available here. The call is concurrent with the release of WIPO’s issues paper where it has outlined the following core issues concerning the relationships between AI and IP: (a) Patents (b) Copyright (c) Data (d) Designs (e) Technology Gap and Capacity Building and; (f) Accountability for IP Administrative Decisions. Submissions are…


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Copyright

World Intellectual Property Organisation Wants to Create an Opaque, Private and Global ‘Piracy Blacklist’

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The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) was created in 1967 as an international, multi-stakeholder body to ‘encourage creativity and protect intellectual property throughout the world.’ It’s a matter of concern, therefore, when a body ostensibly meant to represent diverse interests in matters of intellectual property development chooses to develop a private, arbitrary and non-transparent ‘blacklist’ meant to target advertisement funding of websites. WIPO’s latest proposal, known as the “Building Respect For Intellectual Property Database Project”, is described as – “a…


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SpicyIP Events: 2019 WIPO-UNIGE Summer School in Geneva in June! [June 24-July 5]

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We’re pleased to inform you that the 2019 WIPO-UNIGE Summer School will be conducted in Geneva from June 24 to July 5, 2019. The deadline for applications is May 15, 2019. For further details, please read the announcement below. 2019 WIPO-UNIGE Summer School in Geneva in June! Interested in spanning the IP Globe in 2019? Join the WIPO-UNIGE Summer School in Geneva! The Summer School, this year in its 9th edition, gathers each year participants from around the world with…


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Notes from the WIPO-WTO colloquium for Teachers of Intellectual Property from Developing Countries and Countries in Transition

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Last month, I had the opportunity to attend the colloquium for IP teachers from developing countries that is organized jointly by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The event brings IP teachers from almost 30 different developing countries to Geneva, Switzerland, at the expense of WIPO-WTO for a rigorous and fun, 10 days event. The colloquium is a rare opportunity to meet IP academics from developing countries and hear about their national experiences in the…


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Copyright

Huge Win for Copyright Owners: India Signs up to Internet Copyright Treaties!

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On July 4, 2018, the Union Cabinet approved the proposal to accede to the WIPO Copyright Treaty, 1996 (‘WCT’) and the WIPO Performance and Phonograms Treaty, 1996 (‘WPPT’). These treaties are part of a series of international instruments created by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (‘WIPO’) to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world. They are commonly referred to as the ‘WIPO Internet Treaties’ due to their emphasis on protection of rights in a digital environment. While India…


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People Tree v. Dior: IP Infringement, Cultural Appropriation or Both?

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Last week, Indian media was abuzz with the news of High Fashion brand, Christian Dior having allegedly plagiarised certain designs from a small, Indian art collective and store known as ‘People Tree’. According to reports – which carried allegations raised by the collective – Dior’s Cruise 2018 collection contained a dress that contained exact reproductions of the Block Printing designs created, and sold by ‘People Tree’ in India. This would have gone wholly unnoticed if not for the January Issue…


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Patent

IPO Takes Steps to Improve Access and Enhance Data Sharing

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Over the past month, I’ve written about efforts by the Copyright Office to improve access, stakeholder participation and democratize the copyright filing system (see here and here). It appears the office of the CGPDTM (hereinafter, Indian Patent Office or IPO) has also been making efforts to improve access and streamline data sharing. Weekly Release of FER Data BananaIP reports that the IPO will now be publishing in its weekly journal, a list of applications against which FERs have been issued…


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