[Ecommerce] IP-Watch: US Backs Keplinger For WIPO Job; Reacts To Patent Harmonisation Stalemate

[Manon Ress]

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From: Intellectual Property Watch <info@ip-watch.ch>
Date: April 13, 2006 5:53:57 PM EDT
To: manon.ress@cptech.org
Subject: IP-Watch: US Backs Keplinger For WIPO Job; Reacts To Patent
Harmonisation Stalemate
Reply-To: info@ip-watch.ch


A new entry has been posted to the Intellectual Property Watch website.

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April 13, 2006: US Backs Keplinger For WIPO Job; Reacts To Patent
Harmonisation Stalemate

The United States government today confirmed it has put forward a
senior Commerce Department official=B4s name for a top spot at the
World Intellectual Property Organization. It also vowed to keep
pushing for global patent system harmonisation within and outside
WIPO, a day after an effort to set a work programme on the patent
issue broke down for the year.

Link to the complete article: http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/
index_test.php?p=3D270





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