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The WIPO Magazine 4/2010 (August) issue

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/

The WIPO Magazine 3/2010 (June) issue

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:

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WIPO has set up a YouTube presence: the WIPO channel

(Click here: http://www.youtube.com/user/wipo)

The WIPO Magazine 2/2010 (April) issue is now available on the WIPO website.
(Click here: http://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/)

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

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Dear SIDA Members,

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/

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SINGAPORE: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has established an arbitration and mediation centre in Singapore.

The centre is the first of its kind outside of Europe and aims to provide low cost dispute resolution services on intellectual property.

Come January 2010, WIPO’s arbitration and mediation centre will open here at Maxwell Chambers.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/445231/1/.html

The WIPO Magazine 3/2009 (June) issue
is now available on the WIPO website.
(Click here for link)

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:

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The WIPO Magazine 1/2009 (February) issue

is now available on the WIPO website (Click here).

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The WIPO Magazine 6/2008 (December) issue

is now available on the WIPO website.

In this issue:
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