[Ip-health] SCP 14: Draft text on Future Work

[Thiru Balasubramaniam]

SCP 14: Draft text on Future Work

Around 4:20 PM CET, the following draft text was made available for
for Member States' consideration. Currently, the countries are in
informals considering the following text.

http://keionline.org/node/774

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Agenda 8: Future Work

1. [Following a proposal by the Chair,] the Committee

(a) reaffirmed that the non-exhaustive list of issues identified at
the twelfth session of the SCP held in June 2008, and updated at its
13 session, would remain open for further elaboration and discussion
at its next session(1);

(b) agreed that the preliminary studies submitted at the 13th and 14th
session of the SCP would remain open for further discussion and
comments at the next session of the SCP;

(c) decided that the 15th session of the SCP will:

(i) consider a revised preliminary study on transfer of technology,
focusing on how the patent system supports innovation and technology
transfer;

(ii) discuss the study on exclusions, exceptions and limitations
prepared by external experts;

(iii) revert to the proposal by the Delegation of Brazil on exceptions
and limitations to patent rights contained in contained in document
SCP/14/8, with a view to consider further action on it;

(iv) consider two new preliminary studies in respect of patent
administration as follows:

- a preliminary study on patent quality management systems, and
-an expanded preliminary study on dissemination of, and access to,
complete patent information, including digitization issues;

(v) consider a document compiling the information received by Member
States on how national laws and practices apply the client privilege
or the professional secrecy obligation, respectively, to foreign
patent advisors.

2. The SCP suggested that the Director General consider including, in
the revised Program and Budget for 2011, provision for a Conference on
Patent and [Public Health] [Food Security] to be held in the first
quarter of 2011.

3. Presentations of the studies will be held at the beginning of the
next meeting.

4. The International Bureau informed the SCP that its fifteenth
session was tentatively scheduled to be held from October 11 to 15,
2010 in Geneva.

5. The SCP noted that the present document was a summary established
under the responsibility of the Chair and that the official record
would be contained in the report of the session. The report would
reflect all the interventions made during the meeting, and would be
adopted in accordance with the procedure agreed by the SCP at its
fourth session (see document/4/6, paragraph 11), which provided for
the members of the SCP to comment on the draft report made available
on the SCP Electronic Forum. The Committee would then be invited to
adopt the draft report, including the comments received, at its
following session.
FOOTNOTES

1. See attached revised list.


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


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