News Archive 2008

Dec 16, 2008

Program of strategic change launched - assemblies approve nine key goals.

Dec 9, 2008

SCT concludes - focus on non-traditional marks, trademark opposition and industrial designs.

Nov 27, 2008

Conference on the challenges facing collective management - enhanced WIPO support sought.

Nov 19, 2008

UN Secretary-General visits WIPO - climate change and MDGs top the agenda.

Nov 12, 2008

Member States review key copyright issues - enhancing access to works for the visually impaired under debate.

Nov 10, 2008

Lisbon Agreement – 50th anniversary - ceremony follows a two-day Forum in Lisbon.

Oct 22, 2008

IGC consultations to continue on future work program - WIPO Director General and IGC Chairman to pursue efforts to move forward international negotiations on traditional knowledge and related issues, prior to Committee's next session.

Oct 17, 2008

WIPO expands its Distance Learning Program - Five new multilingual courses have been added to the distance learning program of the WIPO Worldwide Academy. They cover Arbitration and Mediation Procedure; Patents; Patent Information Search; Basics of Patent Drafting; and Trademarks.

Oct 1, 2008

WIPO Assemblies Conclude. Topped by the appointment of Mr. Francis Gurry as Director General, the WIPO Assemblies concluded a day ahead of schedule following a review of the Organization's activities and future work plan.

Sep 23, 2008

WIPO General Assembly opens. At the opening session on September 22, Member States paid tribute to outgoing Director General, Dr. Kamil Idris, for his 25-year long career at WIPO.

Sep 23, 2008

WIPO's new Director General outlines challenges and priorities - text of Mr. Francis Gurry's acceptance speech to the WIPO Assemblies on September 22. Watch the video.

Sep 22, 2008

Francis Gurry is appointed Director General of WIPO. Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization unanimously appointed Francis Gurry as the Organization's new Director General.

Jul 31, 2008

SCT Examines Non-Traditional Marks, Trademark Opposition Procedures and Industrial Designs. Non-traditional marks, such as holograms and scent marks, trademark opposition procedures, and questions relating to the registration of industrial designs topped the agenda of the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (SCT), which met from July 21 to 25.

Jul 31, 2008

2008 World Patent Report Confirms Increasing Internationalization of Innovative Activity. Increased patent filings in North East Asian countries (mainly China and the Republic of Korea) and in the US drove growth in worldwide filing of patent applications, which topped 1.76 million in 2006, representing a 4.9% increase over 2005, according to the 2008 edition of the WIPO World Patent Report.

Jul 15, 2008

Development Agenda - Report of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP). At its second meeting from July 7-11, the CDIP took forward its discussions of a work program for implementation of the recommendations approved by the General Assembly.

Jun 18, 2008

OAPI Accedes to International Industrial Designs Treaty. Following the accession on June 16 of the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement, users will be able to file a single application for the registration of their industrial designs in all 16 OAPI countries as well as in all the other member countries of the Geneva Act.

May 21, 2008

WIPO to Launch Pilot Training Program for Indigenous Communities. The pilot program, to be launched in September, will assist indigenous communities to document and digitize their own cultural traditions, archive this heritage for future generations, and safeguard their interests in authorizing the use of their recordings and traditions by third parties.

May 14, 2008

Next WIPO Director General is nominated. Mr. Francis Gurry, a national of Australia, was nominated by the WIPO Coordination Committee on May 13 to become the next Director General of WIPO. The candidate will have to be appointed by the WIPO General Assembly at its next meeting from September 22 to 30.

May 9, 2008

WIPO Signs Intellectual Property Development Plan with the Republic of Ghana WIPO Director General Kamil Idris said the Development Plan, signed on May 7, offered a comprehensive and coherent approach to establishing a robust IP framework that would support Ghana’s development objectives.

Apr 29, 2008

WIPO Magazine - April Edition This month's issue includes: IP strategies of an SME in the textile industry; environmental technology transfer in Nigeria; green branding; pursuing the P2P pirates; a day in the life of an IP blogger; marine genetic resources and more.

 

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