The WHO World Health Assembly agenda is ambitious: Delegates hope that the decisions they make this week will save 29 million lives by 2023. It’s in everyone’s best interest to improve global health outcomes. Unfortunately, the best strategies to accomplish this shared goal aren’t as easily agreed upon. The WHO... [READ MORE]

Groundhog Day has arrived early this year. And from the looks of what appears to be taking shape at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Executive Board (EB) discussions later this month, winter just doesn’t want to end. One could have hoped that incoming WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus... [READ MORE]

IP drives medicines and machinery and music and movies. IP delivers the technology behind the phones we use, the cars we drive, even the clothes we wear.  In short, IP is everywhere. And this week, IP is in Geneva. GIPC is in Geneva, Switzerland for the World Intellectual Property Organization’s... [READ MORE]

Ahead of next month’s nomination, the GIPC asked each of the candidates three questions from the private sector which address critical issues in WIPO. In the coming weeks, we will post the responses from the candidates as they are received. Up first is Geoffrey Onyeama, who has worked in a variety of capacities at WIPO since 1985 before becoming WIPO deputy director general for development.

The benefits of IP deliver far beyond U.S. borders. Recently, the EU revealed the results of a similar study, finding similar contributions by IP-intensive industries to the EU’s economy. Commissioned by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), the report found that IP-intensive industries create 77 million jobs and generate 40% of the total economic activity throughout the EU – roughly 4.7 trillion euro annually.

How many times have you purchased your must-have item on the Internet because you found a better price or didn't feel like going to the store? You wouldn't be alone; an increasing number of consumers are using the Internet to buy everything from clothes to pet food. According to the Partnership at Drugfree.org, one in six consumers are also purchasing their prescription drugs online. In most cases, consumers assume they can detect an authentic website, and they will be getting the product they see on the screen.

On Tuesday, April 23, the GIPC hosted an event on the sidelines of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) meeting on the need for greater legal certainty for IP in order to further innovative research and development in the future. The panelists presented the delegates with their experiences on the ways in which a disclosure requirement had been implemented in their respective countries. They further elaborated on how such a requirement affected scientific research in their respective countries.