Gurry calls for more cooperation over PCT
27 April 2009
Eileen McDermott, Washington DC
WIPO director-general Francis Gurry described the international IP system as “under stress” during his keynote address at the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation’s fifth International Judges Conference on Intellectual Property Law in Washington DC this week
Lamenting the 3 to 5 million unprocessed patent applications pending globally, Gurry said that the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) must be moved “to a higher level of cooperation”.
He said: “The function of the PCT is to avoid excessive duplication within the system. We need to find ways in which the chief participants of the PCT avoid duplicating each other’s work.”...
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