WIPO Magazine 3/2010 (June)

The WIPO Magazine 3/2010 (June) issue

is now available on the WIPO website.
(http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/)

This WIPO Magazine focuses on:

  • World Intellectual Property Day 2010 – a glimpse of the many events organized around this year’s theme, “Innovation – Linking the World”.
  • Open Innovation – Collective solutions for tomorrow – the emerging innovation model that is helping to jump-start stalled company growth and deliver solutions to global problems.
  • WIPO’S First Open Day – WIPO opens its doors to the public for the first time.
  • The Green Debate: IP Perspectives – an overview of the different perspectives expressed in a public debate on IP and the environment.

Also in this issue:

  • Benefits of Plant Variety Protection – the impact of the UPOV system over the past 50 years.
  • Why Design Now? – how designers are responding to human and environmental problems and why “design thinking” is a must.
  • Chile Breaks New Ground in Regulating IP Liability – a look at one of the most significant copyright developments in Chile in the last 40 years.

And our regular features:

In the Courts:

  • U.S. Bose Decision – Effects on Madrid System Users – the possible implications for users of the Madrid System of recent legal decisions in the United States that redefined standards in determining whether a trademark applicant has committed fraud.
  • The Trademarked City within a City – a landmark trademark case in South Africa and a new form of ‘genericide’.
  • Highlights – developments at the IGC and WIPO’s launch of an on-line forum on access to copyrighted works by the visually impaired.

WIPO Magazine is published bimonthly by the World Intellectual Property Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations.