[governance] IP-Watch Brief: US, WIPO IP Summit In Africa Postponed

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

*Excellent news.*
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 22:37, ari <sultane at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> February 26, 2012. US, WIPO IP Summit In Africa Postponed
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> A training programme on intellectual property organised by the United
> States with several partners to be held in Africa in April has been
> postponed under pressure to make the programme more transparent and
> representative of all stakeholders.
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> Link to the article:
> http://www.ip-watch.org/?p=19700&utm_source=post&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts
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A rather long but informative article:

http://www.ip-watch.org/2012/02/12/us-wipo-training-programme-on-ip-rights-in-africa-comes-under-fire/

an excerpt ..

Prof. Brook Baker of Northeastern University law school and Health GAP,
said: It is deeply problematic that the Obama administration continues to
pursue efforts to strengthen, widen, and lengthen patent, data, and
copyright monopolies in African countries that desperately need expanded
access to medicines, educational materials, and climate control
technologies and that it simultaneously seeks even stronger enforcement of
IP protections than what is currently required under international law.
Carrying the policy portfolio of Big Pharma and other IP-based
multinationals under the guise of addressing Africa’s needs, the proposed
African IP Summit is a chilling example of US duplicity and conflict of
interest at its worst. However, it is equally problematic if Africa leaders
and policy makers, some of whom are already complicit with the US agenda,
continue to drink the IP KoolAid as they’ve done with proposed
anti-counterfeiting legislation and with their long-lasting lethargy in
amending their IP laws to take full advantage of TRIPS flexibilities and
thereafter to use those flexibilities to access medicines and other
essential technologies.”
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