From the FT:

"Five hundred scientists, academics, legal experts and consumer advocates, including two Nobel laureates, called yesterday for a change of course at the World Intellectual Property Organisation to put development concerns ahead of stronger intellectual property rights."

You may recall my mention last week of the Geneva Declaration on the Future of WIPO. Well the WIPO General Assembly debate on the matter has been happening today. I hope there has been some progress.

John Sulston, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for medicine for his work on the genome project, is one of the signatories of the declaration.