To watch Singapore National Day Parade live on the web, you can goto http://ndp2009.mediacorptv.sg/

In this issue we continue to highlight “Green Innovation”, the theme for World Intellectual Property Day, with:

• Photovoltaic Technology – Sunny side up
• Barefoot College, Teaching Grandmothers to be Solar Engineers
• Reinventing the Automobile:  What it takes to make a clean machine
• The Eco-Patent Commons:  Caring through sharing
• World Intellectual Property Day – April 26, the 2009 activity report

Plus:

• Bicentenary of Louis Braille – The world at our fingertips
• Efficient Alternative Dispute Resolution in Intellectual Property
• Signs of the Times – Article 6ter enters the e-communication era

Our regular features

• In the Courts:  Legal Pioneering at the Online Auction Frontier
• Committee Meeting:   SCP to Intensify Work on Several Patent-Related Issues
• Book Review
• Letters and Comment

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Trading Ideas 2009 aims to continue the tradition of the original Symposium, by facilitating the interaction of influential IP thought leaders from both the private and public sectors.

The Trading Ideas Symposium, which was held in Sydney in January 2007, was a landmark intellectual property (IP) meeting of leading IP professionals, government policy makers and industry leaders. A major event on the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Australia 2007 calendar, it discussed the future of IP in the Asia-Pacific region.

The event this year will focus on IP commercialization for businesses in the APEC region.

Key Highlights and Topics

• Trading Ideas 2009 will provide an interactive and engaging platform for the exchange of ideas through:
• Plenary Sessions discussing key topics such as the impact of the financial crisis on the IP landscape and IP services for the future;
  Concurrent Sessions hosted by stakeholders from industry and government who will discuss international IP trends and issues, and successful IP commercialization strategies in various industry sectors; and
• Networking with participants and speakers from Europe, Asia, Latin America and 21 APEC Economies

• IP and Climate Change Negotiations: From Bali to Copenhagen, Via Pozna?
• Sharing technology to meet a common challenge

And related articles from earlier issues:

• Climate Change – The Technology Challenge
• Towards a Green Stone Age?
• Patenting and Access to Clean Energy Technologies in Developing Countries
• New Rice for Africa – Plant Breeding Technologies Fighting Hunger
• From Cows to Kilowatts – A Case Study in Successful Technology Transfer
• Hot Property – IP Strategies in the Solar Tech Sector
• Green Technologies: Electric Cars with Hydrogen Fuel Cells
• Green Design – From Cradle to Cradle
• Green Branding – Cashing in on the Eco-Market
• PCT Portraits: Eco-Inventors
• When Innovation is Child’s Play

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Contributed by: George

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In this issue:

• as the Singapore Treaty Enters into Force get a sense for non-traditional marks with Smell, Sound and Taste and 3D Trademarks
• Green innovation – Keeping Airplanes Up and Carbon Output Down
• Salty Secrets – New Drugs from the Sea
• meet French sculptor Nicolas Lavarenne

Plus:

• Talking to the Director General
• Copyright in the Classroom – Mine, Yours, Theirs
• The Museum of Counterfeiting, Paris – A Walk on the Wild Side
• The Father of Karaoke

Our regular features:

• Welcome to the Public Domain
• Book Review
• Letters and comment
• In the News

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

Contributed by: George

Check out the latest toy technology shown during the Canadian Toy Association annual toy fair (24~26 Jan 2009).

The following are some of the really cool gadgets in the fair.
(Click here for a slide show of the latest toy from the fair)

We wish all SIDA members and inventors a prospers New Year.