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Global IP Perspective
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Patent Pools to Help Widen Access to Vital Medicines
by IPFrontline.com - Unitaid is working on creating patent pools as potential IP weapon against life-threatening diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in 93 countries
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Google Liberalises Adword Policy in Europe
by Lee Curtis - As of the 14th September 2010, Google will allow the purchase of one trader’s trade mark as a keyword to trigger advertisements for a competitor’s advertisement across all European countries
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New Ground in Traditional Cultural Expression Talks
by WIPO - Work focused on Traditional Cultural Eexpressions - covered by the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore
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Laws, Treaties and Policy
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Guidelines on Trademarking a State Name
by Kenny K. S. Wong and Benjamin P. K. Choi - The Guidelines, effective from 28 July 2010, serve to standardise examination practice of trade marks bearing reference to "中國" (China) or "國" (State)
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UK Told to Get Tougher on Data Protection Law
by Kenneth Mullen - Comparing current regulator, the Information Commissioner (ICO), to 'a guard dog tied up in the basement' the EU's Justice Commissioner said that the UK Data Protection Act (DPA) must be amended 'swiftly' to enable the ICO to perform its enforcement duties with absolute certainty
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Count Reform Fails to Decrease RCE's
by Harold C. Wegner - "... in FY 10, 114,183 RCE applications have been filed through July 12, 2010. This represents 31.2 % of total … filings. When compared with 110,183 filings over the same period in FY09 and 138,459 filings for all of FY09, it is apparent that the average RCE filing rate has remained fairly constant."
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