is now available on the WIPO website.
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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.

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