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.

http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/

May Singapore see many prosperity and inventive years ahead.

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.

Please be informed that the WIPO Magazine 1/2010 (February) Issue is now available on WIPO’s website, link is
http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/

Contributed by: George