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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:

• 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.

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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

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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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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

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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

Contributed by: George