is now available on the WIPO website.

This WIPO Magazine focuses on:

• Goal-Line Technology – Getting it Right – a close-up of technologies that can support referees in officiating matches.
• A Tribute to the Man behind the Swatch – Mr. Nicolas G. Hayek.
• Rwanda Transforms its IP Landscape – how the country’s new IP law is building support for intellectual property to advance national development goals.

Also in this issue:

• Fostering Future Inventors in Japan – a behind-the scenes at an innovative IP outreach initiative for students.
• Water from Air – A Life-Changing Innovation – Marc Parent explains how his pioneering technology harvests water from the air using wind power.
• Africa University – First Group of IP Graduates awarded Master’s degrees.
• What place for customary law in protecting traditional knowledge? Challenges and opportunities.
• Highlights – Developments in the field of trademarks and designs, access to medicines and protection of traditional cultural expressions (TCEs).

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

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(This photo was taken at Best Denki IMM http://www.bestdenki.com.sg/)

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May Singapore see many prosperity and inventive years ahead.

http://inventorspot.com/articles/british_inventor_creates_first_allpurpose_carbon_neutral_clothes

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.

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You have an idea for a new product or innovative service? A project to start a new business? The Belgian Chamber of Innovation invites you to its free information sessions about the services its members have to offer you!!

During these sessions, experts in different domains (Intellectual Property, Business Angels, Start-up, Coaching, Marketing) answer your questions and show you the way, free of charge, whether you are a young project-bearer, an innovative company or a starter.

These sessions are planned as follows :

• In Leuven, June 23 from 11 am to 2 pm at IVV (Innovatie Vereniging Vlaanderen)
• In Charleroi, June 24 from 11 am to 2 pm at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Charleroi.

The session in Charleroi shall be proceeded by a free training at 9.30 on « Web Information at the service of Innovation ».

Free access but prior registration via contact@brussels-innova.com

Young Inventors Contest – Registration from 1 June !

Are you between 12 and 25 years old? Then enter our contest for young inventors!
Download here the documents to participate

Book your stand at Brussels Innova 2010!

Does your profile match one of the following?

• Ambitious countries send delegations of their best researchers and representatives of
  research centers, companies and public innovation consultants.
• Innovative companies, SME’s and starting entrepreneurs who wish to present or sell
  revolutionary products or ideas.
• Advisers, public and private innovation consultants, patent offices, sectorial organisations, publishers of magazines about technology, science and innovation,…

Then book your stand for the next edition of the Brussels Innova fair which will be held from 18 to 20 November and complete the registration form

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In harsh and inhospitable environments, with hot days and cold nights, this invention creates a temperate and moist earthen nursery for protecting and nurturing seeds into trees with a self replenishing source of drip irrigation. It is a plant incubator that’s designed to cool faster than the night air, creating condensation.

Click here for detail: http://cleantechnica.com/2010/05/29/inventor-uses-biomimicry-to-create-dew/

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