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	World Intellectual Property Organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The headquarters of WIPO are in Geneva, Switzerland.
		The predecessor to WIPO was the BIRPI (Bureaux Internationaux Réunis pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle, French acronym for United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property), which had been set up in 1893 to administer the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
		WIPO was formally created by the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization (Signed at Stockholm on July 14, 1967 and as amended on September 28, 1979).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization (685 words)

	ALA \| WIPO
		WIPO implements international copyright laws that implicate member nations such as the U.S. For example, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (The Berne Convention) established international standards for copyright protection that relates to libraries.
		WIPO is currently concerned with the application and development of international law to protect traditional knowledge, cultural expressions and folklore.
		WIPO has thus far inadequately protected and promoted the balance between users and owners that is fundamental to effective intellectual property regimes.
	www.ala.org /ala/washoff/WOissues/copyrightb/intlcopyright/wipo.htm (952 words)

	II. PATENT LAW STANDARD SETTING IN WIPO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		WIPO, which was preceded by the International Bureau that administered the Paris and Berne Conventions, came into being in 1970 when the 1967 Stockholm WIPO Convention came into force.
		An obvious advantage of GATT vis-à-vis WIPO was the possibility of applying trade sanctions to countries found as non-compliant under the settlement of disputes mechanism and, equally important, the possibility of negotiating higher standards of IPRs protection in exchange for concessions in other trade areas, such as textiles and agriculture.
		Developing countries' views are generally represented in WIPO through their industrial property offices, whose officials lack a global perspective on the economic and social implications of IPRs, and often share the same objectives about the patent system that inspire developed countries' representatives.
	www.southcentre.org /publications/wipopatent/wipopatent-05.htm (1339 words)

	Developing countries present comprehensive plan to reform WIPO
		WIPO has focused on the diffusion of standardized approaches to IP policies that uncritically assume that development follows suit as IPR protection is strengthened.
		WIPO must, as a matter of course, examine and address all features of existing intellectual property rights, including the economic and social costs that IP protection may impose on developing countries on consumers of knowledge and technology in both the North and the South.
		WIPO should operate as a Member-driven institution, where the role of the Secretariat is limited to facilitating the work of the Members and to implementing decisions and instructions received from Members.
	www.cptech.org /ip/wipo/khor04112005.html (2049 words)

	WIPO: PATENT HARMONISATION AND DISPUTE SETTLEMENT WORK TO GO FORWARD
		However, the WIPO governing bodies were unable to move forward on the decade-old efforts at revision of the Paris conventions on industrial property protection, an area where further work has been blocked by the U.S. and other industrial countries.
		WIPO is the UN specialised agency dealing with industrial and intellectual property issues, and administers a score of programme and registration union, all set up by treaties.
		The international bureau of WIPO is the common secretariat which services all these activities - dealing primarily with governments and servicing their needs in respect of the programme unions, and servicing (for a fee) private parties who make use of its information and facilities in the registration unions.
	www.sunsonline.org /trade/areas/intellec/10100089.htm (1343 words)

	World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Case Study \| Managing the Digital Enterprise
		The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the use and protection of works of the human spirit.
		Through its work, WIPO plays an important role in enhancing the quality and enjoyment of life, as well as creating real wealth for nations.
		With headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, WIPO is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations system of organizations.
	digitalenterprise.org /cases/wipo.html (170 words)

	WIPO History
		WIPO has, since January 1, 1996, an Agreement with the World Trade Organization (WTO), which is not a member of the United Nations system of organizations.
		The Agreement provides for cooperation between the International Bureau of WIPO and the Secretariat of the WTO in respect of assistance to developing countries, in respect of the notification and collection of the intellectual property laws and regulations of WTO Members, and in respect of the notification of emblems of States and international organizations.
		WIPO has three governing bodies, that is, organs established by the WIPO Convention, the members of which are States.
	www.american.edu /initeb/qj8944a/wipo.htm (641 words)

	ICANN \| Letter from Francis Gurry, WIPO, to Vint Cerf and Stuart Lynn
		The Member States of WIPO recommended that two such identifiers should be protected against abusive registration as domain names, namely, the names and acronyms of IGOs and country names (being one particular type of geographical identifier).
		The SCT met for this purpose in November 2002 and adopted a decision that the short and long names of States, as set out in the United Nations Terminology Bulletin, should be protected against identical and misleadingly similar registrations as domain names by persons unconnected with the constitutional authorities of the States concerned.
		Full details of the decisions of the WIPO General Assembly and of the subsequent discussions in the SCT are contained in the supporting documentation which is referred to below, and which is attached to the original of this letter.
	www.icann.org /correspondence/gurry-letter-to-cerf-lynn-21feb03.htm (1402 words)

	Sidley Austin Brown & Wood \| CyberLaw \| Treatment of WIPO Decisions in U.S. Federal Court
		Losing a WIPO proceeding does not pose a hurdle to bringing — and winning — a federal action; the federal action is brought as a new complaint, not as an appeal from the WIPO decision.
		The WIPO decision is not binding authority, and the federal action is to be treated as a de novo adjudication.
		The limited number of cases that have addressed WIPO proceedings have likewise stated that domain name claims presented in court should be treated as new complaints, not as some form of an appeal from an administrative decision.
	www.sidley.com /cyberlaw/features/wipo.asp (1326 words)

	IP Justice: WIPO Documents and Treaties
		WIPO rules do not allow a single delegate to act as SCCRR Chairman in back-to-back sessions, yet the Finnish delegate had served as the Chairman for the 7th session in a row, completely controlling the substance of the treaty drafts and excluding certain proposals.
		WIPO also announced the cancellation of all coffee breaks during the three day meetings, which had previously provided civil society representatives with an opportunity to speak one-on-one with Member State Delegates about the treaty's harmful provisions.
		When civil society representatives informed WIPO of the theft and requested assistance, WIPO Deputy Director General Rita Hayes (US) said she could not provide security or assistance since she was unhappy about the Internet publication of daily reports from civil society representatives on the substance of the debate during the meetings.
	www.ipjustice.org /WIPO/release20041122.shtml (1031 words)

	GRAIN \| Briefings \| 2003 \| One global patent system? WIPO
		In Cambodia, WIPO somehow failed to inform the government that, as an LDC, it was not obliged to grant patents on pharmaceuticals before 2016.
		WIPO's closest allies are what are known as the 'user groups', the representatives of corporations and the patent trade who are traditionally the only NGO observers in WIPO meetings.
		WIPO went so far as to refuse to put the first amendments into the draft treaty at all, in total disregard of established practice.
	www.grain.org /publications/wipo-splt-2003-en.cfm (5582 words)

	Wired News: WIPO Launches 'Squat Fight' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		WIPO last year helped put in place a Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy which has been the basis for settling conflicts about trademarks on the Internet since December 1999.
		WIPO will have to address the protection of everyday personal names, corner-shop trade names, and a multitude of geographic indications -- the names of places that have a product associated with them, such as Roquefort for cheese or Bordeaux for wine.
		WIPO has already helped actress Julia Roberts win back her name from a cybersquatter, because the arbitration panel ruled she had common law trademark rights to her name.
	www.wired.com /news/print/0,1294,37471,00.html (523 words)

	Wipology: Studying the Elusive WIPO Troll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We are dedicated to the science of wipology: the study of the elusive WIPO Troll, the prototypical Slashdot crapflooder.
		Taco-Snotting is Dying: A parody of the *BSD Troll.
		Free WIPO: Citizens for a free WIPO Troll.
	wipo.50megs.com (310 words)

	Choike - WIPO Development Agenda
		Their formal proposal was presented at the to the 40th Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO and to the 31st Session of the WIPO General Assembly.
		This proposal was welcomed by the WIPO Assembly on 4th October and it was decided to convene meetings to discuss it.
		The inter-sessional intergovernmental meeting (IIM) on a Development Agenda (DA) for WIPO (Geneva, 11-13 April 2005) was mandated by the WIPO General Assembly in October 2004 as a result of an initiative for a DA launched by the 14 members of the Group of Friends of Development (FOD).
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/2313.html (1919 words)

	GENERAL ASSEMBLY BYPASSED IN INFORMAL WIPO TALKS ON PATENT HARMONISATION
		They noted that Brazil was the only country among the 14 proponents of a 'WIPO Development Agenda' (see BRIDGES Weekly, 8 September 2004) invited to the event, suggesting that this may have been an attempt to make support for the development agenda appear to be an isolated point of view.
		The other Southern representatives in attendance were from countries that have been passive in WIPO debates on the development agenda, or from states that are already committed by bilateral or regional trade agreements to intellectual property standards that go beyond those required by the WTO, such as Chile and Morocco.
		Although the last meeting of the WIPO General Assembly gave the Director-General the mandate to hold informal consultations on patent harmonisation, several developing country officials argue that the nature and process of the Casablanca consultations may have exceeded the mandate's original purpose.
	www.ictsd.org /weekly/05-02-23/story5.htm (526 words)

	[Ip-health] Notes from first day of WIPO General Assembly (September 27, 2004)
		To mitigate this, WIPO seeks to rein in its expenditures.
		WIPO should continue to exploit its core competencies to build a better understanding of intellectual property, to develop the IP system, and to enhance the efficiency of the Secretariat and the services it provides.
		WIPO has a challenging task as a specialized agency of the UN.
	lists.essential.org /pipermail/ip-health/2004-September/006974.html (1314 words)

	ALAC \| ALAC Statement on WIPO Recommendations Regarding IGOs and Country Names \| 29 April 2003
		Both ICANN and WIPO have followed this principle relatively successfully in the past, when establishing the UDRP as an inexpensive method to address the bad faith registration of others' trademarks as domain names, while deferring to the courts in situations in which several parties may have legitimate claims to a domain name.
		In the case of the WIPO recommendations on IGOs, paragraph 138 of the WIPO Report describes the limited nature of rights of IGOs in their names and abbreviations under Article 6ter of the Paris Convention.
		It would be for States to determine the appropriate basis for such an extension of law, either in the form of a resolution of a competent treaty organ, a memorandum of understanding duly accepted by national authorities or a treaty.
	alac.icann.org /drafts/draft-wipo-29apr03.htm (1488 words)

	Demys \| Domain name news service \| WIPO cases hit the mark as 5000th dispute received (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The WIPO Arbitration Center states that it receives an average of 3 new UDRP cases each day, a rate which indicates that trade mark/domain name issues continue to be of importance.
		WIPO also reported statistics on the language of cases and geographical distribution of the parties.
		The most unusual statistic of all released by WIPO is that the majority of disputed domain names focus on food, alcohol and restaurants; fashion; entertainment; Internet and information technology; and media and publishing.
	www.demys.net /news/2003/05/23_wi.htm (434 words)

	Union for the Public Domain \|
		Among its six points listed, is one which requires the WIPO to 'immediately initiate a process to consider measures designed to improve the participation of civil society and public interest NGOs in WIPO activities'.
		IP-Watch reports that the U.S. is opposing a proposal by Brazil for WIPO to negotiate an access to knowledge treaty.
		As a result, WIPO delegates from 182 nations will discuss these issues without hearing from many of the world's best-qualified experts." Union for the Public Domain has applied for accreditation to attend these meetings and is waiting for a response.
	www.public-domain.org (1331 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Wipo
		He was chaplain to Emperor Konrad II, whose biography he wrote in chronicle form, "Gesta Chuonradi II imperatoris", and presented to Konrad's son, Henry III, in 1046 not long after the latter was crowned.
		Wipo fully understands his subject, is fresh and animated, and, though affectionate, not a mere eulogist or a flatterer, for he sees Konrad's failings clearly.
		But he does not fully grasp the general conditions of the age, especially the emperor's manifold relations to the ruling princes and the Church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15660a.htm (253 words)

	EFF: WIPO
		This bill is in response to European Union cases, and attempts to undermine the court rulings to advance the purposes of HR3531 and the WIPO intellectual property treaty 3531 would enable.
		Without HR2674, fear intellectual proeperty-holding mega-corporations, the WIPO treaty is not iron clad enough against fair use rights and anti-trust law that protects the public interest from monopolistic practices these companies wish to engage in.
		This is the implementing legislation for the WIPO copyright and database protection treaty, submitted to the last Congress.
	www.eff.org /IP/WIPO (548 words)

	Text: U.S. Statement On WIPO Building
		The WIPO decision "is a victory for U.N. reform.
		WIPO members at the September 11 joint meeting of the Budget and Premises Committees decided unanimously to delay by six months their decision on a new building pending completion of a study based on information from independent experts.
		WIPO and Swiss authorities said that such a competition would help provide a more accurate assessment of the costs of this proposed option.
	www.usembassy-israel.org.il /publish/press/whouse/archive/septmbr/wh4_9-12.htm (688 words)

	Arguments for Recalling WIPO RFC3 and Proposal for DNS/TM Resolution
		In response to NTIA, WIPO has produced the document RFC3 [3], which is one of the subjects of this essay.
		But, already, WIPO is using their proposed RFC3 to provide a justification for WIPO's own commercial activities in domain name arbitration for the.io domain [4].
		The unfortunate ethics and the conjunction of legislative and judicial powers jointly performed by WIPO under the practical model they have set forth in RFC3 and related documents is also a subject of discussion in this paper, compounded by the fact that the executive power is tied in under WIPO by the respective domain registrar.
	firstmonday.org /issues/issue4_4/gerck (5920 words)

	LinuxElectrons™: WIPO Announces Plans to Support Public Domain, Open Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the past, WIPO has been roundly resistant to attempts to balance the interests of copyright holders, who make up the majority of WIPO participants, and the public, which had never been represented at the meetings.
		The effort to get WIPO to officially acknowledge its stated mission of promoting creativity and "technology transfer" to the developing world was led by the Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech), with drafting assistance and support from Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and several other like-minded organizations.
		Today WIPO supported an entirely different approach, which emphasized open source software, public domain goods like the human genome, patent exceptions for access to medicine, the control of anticompetitive practices, and other measures that have been ignored by WIPO for years.
	www.linuxelectrons.com /article.php/20041004215722422/print (422 words)

	CNN.com - International music piracy treaty ready to roll - February 22, 2002
		The treaty, dubbed the WIPO Phonograms and Performances Treaty (WTTP), finally attained its needed number of ratifications with the addition of Honduras on Wednesday, and is now ready to go into full force on May 20.
		It is meant to work in conjunction with its sister treaty, the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WTO), which provides the same sort of protection for companies in the culture and information industries.
		Both treaties were adopted in 1996, WIPO said, but have just received the required number of signatories.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/TECH/internet/02/22/music.piracy.idg (334 words)

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