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LDCs Commit To Use IP For Development At WIPO; Use Of Exceptions, Flexibilities Omitted

By Intellectual Property Watch

Officials from least developed nations on Friday agreed to a strategy for using intellectual property to encourage local innovation, protect national cultural and genetic resources, attract foreign direct investment, and spur development at a World Intellectual Property Organization forum on the use of intellectual property for ?prosperity and development.? But they did not appear to highlight other options for development such as exceptions and limitations to copyright or flexibilities they are allowed in applying IP laws.

Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on July 27, 2009 (boomark / email).