Monday, August 01, 2005

WIPO development meeting fails

The third WIPO Development Agenda meeting has ended without agreement. There are concerns noted here by the EFF that the US and Japan have undermined a useful process by insisting that the work of the committee tasked with "providing the WIPO General Assembly with specific recommendations for reform" should be transferred to another "moribund advisory committee called the Permanent Committee for Cooperation Related to Intellectual Property (PCIPD)."

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