Intellectual property
Australia - Certain Measures Concerning Trademarks, Geographical Indications and Other Plain Packaging Requirements Applicable to Tobacco Products and Packaging
Jun 2020
Dispute Reports
On 9 June 2020 the Appellate Body issued its reports in the cases brought by Honduras and the Dominican Republic in “Australia — Certain Measures Concerning Trademarks Geographical Indications and Other Plain Packaging Requirements Applicable to Tobacco Products and Packaging” (DS435 and DS441).
Estados Unidos - Artículo 110(5) de la Ley de Derecho de Autor de los Estados Unidos
Jun 2000
Dispute Reports
El 15 de junio de 2000 la OMC hizo público el informe del Grupo especial sobre el caso “Estados Unidos - Artículo 110(5) de la Ley derecho de Autor de los Estados Unidos”.
États-Unis - Article 211 de la Loi générale de 1998 portant ouverture de crédits
Jan 2002
Dispute Reports
Le 02 janvier 2002 l’Organe d’appel a publié son rapport sur l’affaire “États-Unis - Article 211 de la Loi générale de 1998 portant ouverture de crédits”.
Australia - Determinadas medidas relativas a las marcas de fábrica o de comercio, indicaciones geográficas y otras prescripciones de empaquetado genérico aplicables a los productos de tabaco y al empaquetado de esos productos
Jun 2020
Dispute Reports
El 9 de junio de 2020 el Órgano de Apelación emitió sus informes en los asuntos planteados por Honduras y la República Dominicana en “Australia — Determinadas medidas relativas a las marcas de fábrica o de comercio indicaciones geográficas y otras prescripciones de empaquetado genérico aplicables a los productos de tabaco y al empaquetado de esos productos” (DS435 y DS441).
Estados Unidos - Artículo 211 de la Ley Omnibus de Asignaciones de 1998
Aug 2001
Dispute Reports
El 06 de agosto de 2001 la OMC hizo público el informe del Grupo especial sobre el caso “Estados Unidos - Artículo 211 de la Ley Omnibus de Asignaciones de 1998”.
Estados Unidos - Artículo 211 de la Ley Omnibus de Asignaciones de 1998
Jan 2002
Dispute Reports
El 02 de enero de 2002 el Órgano de Apelación hizo público el informe sobre el caso “Estados Unidos - Artículo 211 de la Ley Omnibus de Asignaciones de 1998”.
Arabie saoudite, Royaume de - Mesures concernant la protection des droits de propriété intellectuelle
Jun 2020
Dispute Reports
Le 16 juin 2020 l’OMC a distribué le rapport du Groupe spécial chargé d’examiner l’affaire introduite par le Qatar “Arabie saoudite — Mesures concernant la protection des droits de propriété intellectuelle” (DS567).
India - Patent Protection for Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Chemical Products
Sept 1997
Dispute Reports
On 7 April 1997 the US requested consultations with Japan in respect of the latter’s prohibition under quarantine measures of imports of certain agricultural products. The US alleged that Japan prohibits the importation of each variety of a product requiring quarantine treatment until the quarantine treatment has been tested for that variety even if the treatment has proved to be effective for other varieties of the same product. The US alleged violations of Read More
Communautés européennes - Protection des marques et des indications géographiques pour les produits agricoles et les denrées alimentaires
Mar 2005
Dispute Reports
Le 15 mars 2005 l’OMC a publié le rapport du Groupe spécial dans l’affaire “Communautés européennes - Protection des marques et des indications géographiques pour les produits agricoles et les denrées alimentaires”.
India - Protección mediante patente de los productos farmacéuticos y los productos químicos para la agricultura
Sept 1997
Dispute Reports
El 05 de septiembre de 1997 la OMC hizo público el informe del Grupo especial sobre el caso “India - Protección mediante patente de los productos farmacéuticos y los productos químicos para la agricultura”.
Canadá - Período de protección mediante patente
May 2000
Dispute Reports
El 05 de mayo de 2000 la OMC hizo público el informe del Grupo especial sobre el caso “Canadá - Período de protección mediante patente”.
Canada - Protection conférée par un brevet pour les produits pharmaceutiques
Mar 2000
Dispute Reports
Le 17 mars 2000 l’OMC a publié le rapport du Groupe spécial dans l’affaire “Canada - Protection conférée par un brevet pour les produits pharmaceutiques”.
Australia - Certain Measures Concerning Trademarks, Geographical Indications and Other Plain Packaging Requirements Applicable to Tobacco Products and Packaging
Jun 2018
Dispute Reports
On 28 June 2018 the WTO circulated the panel report in the cases brought by Honduras the Dominican Republic Cuba and Indonesia in “Australia — Certain Measures Concerning Trademarks Geographical Indications and Other Plain Packaging Requirements Applicable to Tobacco Products and Packaging.
Australia - Determinadas medidas relativas a las marcas de fábrica o de comercio, indicaciones geográficas y otras prescripciones de empaquetado genérico aplicables a los productos de tabaco y al empaquetado de esos productos
Jun 2018
Dispute Reports
El 28 de junio de 2014 la OMC distribuyó el informe del Grupo Especial en los asuntos planteados por Honduras la República Dominicana Cuba e Indonesia “Australia — determinadas medidas relativas a las marcas de fábrica o de comercio indicaciones geográficas y otras prescripciones de empaquetado genérico aplicables a los productos de tabaco y al empaquetado de esos productos” (DS435 DS441 DS458 y DS467)
États-Unis - Article 211 de la Loi générale de 1998 portant ouverture de crédits
Aug 2001
Dispute Reports
Le 06 août 2001 l’OMC a publié le rapport du Groupe spécial dans l’affaire “États-Unis - Article 211 de la Loi générale de 1998 portant ouverture de crédits”.
Product Patents and Access to Innovative Medicines in a Post-TRIPS era
Apr 2019
Working Paper
This WTO working paper studies availability and affordability of new and innovative pharmaceuticals in a post-TRIPS era. The WTO’s TRIPS Agreement (TRIPS) makes it obligatory for WTO members– except least-developed country members (LDCs) - to provide pharmaceutical product patents with a 20-year protection term. Developing country members other than LDCs were meant to be compliant with this provision of TRIPS by 2005.
Intellectual Property and Digital Trade Mapping International Regulatory Responses to Emerging Issues
Feb 2021
Working Paper
This paper explores how regulatory responses to emerging IP issues in digital trade may develop at the international level and in particular how existing mechanisms might influence the chances of developing internationally agreed rules in this regard. The primacy of state sovereignty in intellectual property up to the late 19th century gave way to the important WIPO treaties which still retained some independence of member states and based internat Read More
Patent-Related Actions taken in WTO Members in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Oct 2020
Working Paper
COVID-19 caused by SARS-Cov-2 was declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. Since then the issue of the relationship between patent protection and the development of and access to medical treatments and technologies – a longstanding and enduringly important public policy issue – has become central to the debate on the linkages between IP innovation access and public health between stakeholders with diverge Read More
WIPO-WTO colloquium papers 2010
Aug 2010
Working Paper
The WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization each year since 2010. Providing a uniquely representative and diverse showcase for emerging IP scholarship from across the globe the journal aims to stimulate analysis and debate on intellectual property (IP) issues particularly of interest to developing countries. And it offers an avenue fo Read More
WIPO-WTO colloquium papers 2015
Aug 2015
Working Paper
The WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization each year since 2010. Providing a uniquely representative and diverse showcase for emerging IP scholarship from across the globe the journal aims to stimulate analysis and debate on intellectual property (IP) issues particularly of interest to developing countries. And it offers an avenue fo Read More
WIPO-WTO colloquium papers 2014
Aug 2014
Working Paper
The WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization each year since 2010. Providing a uniquely representative and diverse showcase for emerging IP scholarship from across the globe the journal aims to stimulate analysis and debate on intellectual property (IP) issues particularly of interest to developing countries. And it offers an avenue fo Read More
WIPO-WTO colloquium papers 2016
Aug 2016
Working Paper
The WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization each year since 2010. Providing a uniquely representative and diverse showcase for emerging IP scholarship from across the globe the journal aims to stimulate analysis and debate on intellectual property (IP) issues particularly of interest to developing countries. And it offers an avenue fo Read More
Interplay Between Patents and Standards in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Sector and its Relevance to the Implementation of the WTO Agreements
Apr 2017
Working Paper
The interplay between patents and standards in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector has been intensively debated at international regional and national levels over the past decades. In essence the debate is firstly about the extent and impact of patent holdup and holdout in the ICT sector and then about how to eliminate or reduce these practices.
WIPO-WTO colloquium papers 2012
Aug 2012
Working Paper
The WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization each year since 2010. Providing a uniquely representative and diverse showcase for emerging IP scholarship from across the globe the journal aims to stimulate analysis and debate on intellectual property (IP) issues particularly of interest to developing countries. And it offers an avenue fo Read More
WIPO-WTO colloquium papers 2013
Aug 2013
Working Paper
The WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization each year since 2010. Providing a uniquely representative and diverse showcase for emerging IP scholarship from across the globe the journal aims to stimulate analysis and debate on intellectual property (IP) issues particularly of interest to developing countries. And it offers an avenue fo Read More
Intellectual Property Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements
Oct 2012
Working Paper
This paper assembles detailed information about the intellectual property (IP) provisions contained in 194 active regional trade agreements (RTAs) that had been notified to the WTO by November 2010. IP provisions in RTAs have been the subject of much study and commentary. However much of this work has focused on a relatively limited number of RTAs with a concentration on parties with narrow geographical and economic profiles. The goal of the cu Read More
The Application of Competition Policy Vis-À-Vis Intellectual Property Rights
Sept 2017
Working Paper
This paper examines the evolution of national competition (antitrust) policies and enforcement approaches vis-à-vis intellectual property rights (IPRs) and associated anti-competitive practices in major jurisdictions over the past several decades. It focuses especially on the underlying process of economic learning that has the authors suggest driven relevant policy changes.
Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Export Diversification
Oct 2014
Working Paper
We examine in this paper the impact of the tightening of IPRs notably patents rights and the adoption of utility model laws on export diversification. To perform our analysis we used panel data covering 89 developing and developed countries (of which 55 developing countries) over the period 1975 – 2003 and Lewbel (-2012-)'s instrumental variable technique. Our results lead us to conclude that for developing countries legal protection for minor and Read More
WIPO-WTO colloquium papers 2018
Aug 2018
Working Paper
The WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization each year since 2010. Providing a uniquely representative and diverse showcase for emerging IP scholarship from across the globe the journal aims to stimulate analysis and debate on intellectual property (IP) issues particularly of interest to developing countries. And it offers an avenue fo Read More
The Shifting Contours of Trade in Knowledge
Dec 2020
Working Paper
This paper charts the evolution and diversification of trade in knowledge that has taken place in the quarter-century since the WTO TRIPS Agreement came into force. Entirely new markets have come into being potentially redefining the very character of 'trade'.
WIPO-WTO colloquium papers 2019
Aug 2019
Working Paper
The WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization each year since 2010. Providing a uniquely representative and diverse showcase for emerging IP scholarship from across the globe the journal aims to stimulate analysis and debate on intellectual property (IP) issues particularly of interest to developing countries. And it offers an avenue fo Read More
The TRIPS Agreement and COVID-19
Oct 2020
Working Paper
The WTO Secretariat has published a new information note about how the global intellectual property (IP) system relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and potential contributions it could make to efforts to address it. The note provides an overview of IP-related measures taken by WTO members and other stakeholders since the start of the crisis.
Intellectual Property Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements
Sept 2014
Working Paper
This is a revision and update of "Intellectual Property Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements" by Valdés and Runyowa (2012). This paper adjusts the methodology applied to assess the intellectual property (IP) provisions contained in regional trade agreements (RTAs) and the aggregation of such provisions into groups; it also updates the RTAs surveyed from 194 in November 2010 to 245 in February 2014. New information contained in this revision rel Read More
Least-Developed Countries, Transfer of Technology and the Trips Agreement
Feb 2018
Working Paper
This paper examines the background of Article 66.2 of the TRIPS Agreement the nature of this obligation on developed country Members that pertains to the promotion of technology transfer to LDC Members and how it is being implemented and how such implementation is being monitored in the TRIPS Council.
WIPO-WTO colloquium papers 2017
Aug 2017
Working Paper
The WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization each year since 2010. Providing a uniquely representative and diverse showcase for emerging IP scholarship from across the globe the journal aims to stimulate analysis and debate on intellectual property (IP) issues particularly of interest to developing countries. And it offers an avenue fo Read More
WIPO-WTO colloquium papers 2011
Aug 2011
Working Paper
The WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization each year since 2010. Providing a uniquely representative and diverse showcase for emerging IP scholarship from across the globe the journal aims to stimulate analysis and debate on intellectual property (IP) issues particularly of interest to developing countries. And it offers an avenue fo Read More
Competition Agency Guidelines and Policy Initiatives Regarding the Application of Competition Law Vis-À-Vis Intellectual Property
Mar 2018
Working Paper
Competition agency guidelines policy statements and related advocacy are an important vehicle for policy expression and the guidance of firms across the full spectrum of anti-competitive practices and market conduct.
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