[Ecommerce] Graham Dutfield on WIPO Strategy

[Manon Ress]

This is regarding the development agenda.
Sorry for crossposting this but G.D.'s description of WIPO strategy is
interesting.
Manon

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Ip-health] Graham Dutfield on Casablanca Patent harmonization
meeting
To: Ip-health <ip-health@lists.essential.org>

This was Graham Dutfield's reaction to the ip-watch story on the
Casablanca meeting.  jl

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Ip-health] IP-Watch  on Casablanca Patent harmonization meeting
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:40:26 -0000
From: Graham Dutfield <g.m.dutfield@qmul.ac.uk>
To: <james.love@cptech.org>

Dear Jamie

Strategically this is brilliant. WIPO, the US and Europe need to
separate Brazil and India. So what do they do? They bring both Brazil
and India into the meeting, leave out Egypt, and get Mashelkar to chair
the event. He of course brings India into the fold and leaves Brazil
isolated and made to look obstructionist. Appalled as I am I'm also
impressed by how clever this is. Clearly WIPO is currently under
enormous pressure to deliver on patent law harmonisation but I think we
all need to expose this tactic of the trilateral group to divide and
rule while co-opting WIPO into taking a supporting role that I suspect
goes beyond its mandate as a UN specialised agency.

Regards

Graham Dutfield


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