IP owners team up to defend green patents
01 June 2009
As policy makers search for ways to tackle climate change, IP owners are becoming concerned that patent rights in green technologies could be under threat. Eileen McDermott and Emma Barraclough report
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| Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe |
| UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the opening of the World Business Summit on Climate Change on May 24. He told the 500 business leaders gathered in Copenhagen: “For those who are directly or implicitly lobbying against climate action, I have a clear message: your ideas are out of date, and you are running out of time.” |
A group of patent owning companies have formed an alliance to promote and protect IP rights in so-called green technologies and the pharmaceutical industry.
David Hirschmann, president and CEO of the US Chamber of Commerce's Global IP Center (GIPC), launched the Innovation, Development, and Employment Alliance (IDEA), last month in Washington DC.
Its members include General Electric, Microsoft, Sunrise Solar and Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems.
The Alliance is worried that developing countries might issue compulsory licences over the IP rights behind green technologies and medicines at the...
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