[Ecommerce] REMINDER: tomorrow brown bag re WIPO Development agenda 12:30

[Manon Ress]

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REMINDER: Tomorrow Brown bag regarding the WIPO Developement Agenda.

Friday February 9, 2007 from  12:30 to 2:30 pm
KEI (CPTech)
1621 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 2009
202 332 2670

contact:  manon.ress@keionline.org
(Buzz CPTech between the two doors and bring your own lunch, we'll
have sodas and coffee)

The Third Session of the Provisional Committee on Proposals related
to a WIPO Development Agenda (PCDA) will be held in Geneva (February
19-23, 2007).

Background: in 2004, a group of 14 countries requested the WIPO
General Assembly to consider a proposal that would include the
following:

evaluation of norm setting activities of WIPO
examination of the mandate and goververnance of WIPO
faciliation of technology transfer
promotion of appropriate measures for technical assistance

Following this, more than a hundred proposals were put on the table
by member states.  At the 2d Session of the PCDA there was no
consensus and at the General Assembly, in September-October 2006, the
Kyrgyz Republic tabled a proposal containing 40 recommendations (Doc
PCDA/2/3) [identical to Chair's conclusions that were rejected at the
2d session].

We have now 6 clusters under labels such as technical assistance and
capacity building, norm setting, flexibilities, public and public
domain, technology transfer, information and communication technology
(ICT) and access to knowledge, institutional matters incuding mandate
and governance and other issues. These are described as "low hanging
fruits" or non controversial and will be discussed at the 3rd
Session.  The "tough issues", at the core of the Friends of
Development request, will be discussed at the 4th session in June.

See: http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/html.jsp?url=http://www.wipo.int/
edocs/mdocs/mdocs/en/pcda_2/pcda_2_3.doc

Note: Appendix A is on the table for the 3rd session February 19-23,
2007.

We invited the following experts to inform us about the context and
substance of the discussions:

Confirmed discussants:  Paul Salmon (USPTO), David Carson (Copyright
Office), Marla Poor (Copyright Office), Robert M. Watts (State
Depart.) Suzanne Stoll (WIPO), Thiru Balasubramaniam (KEI), James
Love (KEI)
Invited: Neil Graham (LOC) and Michael Shapiro (USPTO)

And let me know if you would like to call in.


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Manon Anne Ress
manon.ress@keionline.org,
www.cptech.org

Consumer Project on Technology
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Tel.:  +1.202.332.2670, Ext 16 Fax: +1.202.332.2673

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Tel: +41 22 791 6727

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Tel: +44(0)207 226 6663 ex 252 Fax: +44(0)207 354 0607