What WIPO should do next
01 July 2008
Former WIPO deputy director-general Geoffrey Yu spoke to Peter Ollier about how the Organization should heal divisions and move forward under new leadership
What IP laws or issues do you think most need to be harmonized?
At the international level there are a number of things going on that should be addressed. They should be addressed with a sense of realism and a feeling that all countries participating in the process should be able to take something away from it. In other words no country should claim a monopoly of wisdom, of what is right and what is fair. The issues that we feel should be looked at most seriously, and as a win-win rather than a zero sum game, are in the protection of traditional knowledge and access to and use of genetic resources and benefit sharing. Also, the issue that affects many businesses as they try to expand is the cost of obtaining patent protection and the cost of defending patent rights if they are infringed. The cost has been rising...
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