[Ip-health] Comments from UK on the topics proposed for discussion at the 2009 WIPO SCP meeting

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

Please consult the url below for the full text of the comments from
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the WIPO
Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP)  on the following topics:

1) dissemination of patent information, including the issue of a
database on search and examination reports;

2) exceptions from patentable subject matter and limitations to the
rights,

3) patents and technical standards

4) client-attorney privilege



http://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/scp/en/meetings/session_13/pdf/uk.pdf

Comments from UK on the topics proposed for discussion
at the 2009 WIPO SCP meeting
1. At a meeting of the Standing Committee on Patents in June 2008 the
Committee endorsed a proposal from the chair that the following topics
would be discussed at the next meeting in 2008 =96

a. Dissemination of patent information, including the issue of a
database on search and examination reports;

b. Exceptions from patentable subject matter and limitations to the
rights, including research exemption and compulsory licences;

c. Patents and technical standards;

d. Client =96 attorney privilege.

The Secretariat invited delegations to submit comments on these items
for inclusion in one or more working documents for the next meeting.

2. The UK=92s comments on each of these topics are set out in the attached
Annexes A, B, C and D,


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Thiru Balasubramaniam
Geneva Representative
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
thiru@keionline.org


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