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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).

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This WIPO Magazine focuses on:

• The WIPO Convention – Life begins at 40!
• The New WIPO Logo
• The 10th World IP Day and the 2010 Message from Director General Francis Gurry
• Innovation, the Environment and the Future
• Interview with Artist, Illustrator, Creator – Bob MacNeil

Also in this issue:

• Slogans as Trademarks – European and French Practice
• Better Drawings Make a Better Patent
• Traditional Cultures, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Institutions
• Cultural Heritage in the Digital World

And  features:

• In the News
• Letters and Comments

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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• IP and Climate Change Negotiations: From Bali to Copenhagen, Via Poznań
• 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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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

is now available on the WIPO website.

In this issue:
Meetings of the Assemblies of WIPO Member States – 2008 Report
CERN and Innovation – The Heart of the Matter
Lisbon System Turns 50
Ban Ki-moon: WIPO Can Be a Champion
Plus:

Famous Appellations of Origin
Ammonia Sythesis – The Double-Edged Sword

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