Protection of intellectual property and copyright: The rôle of the World Intellectual Property Organization

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
Daniel Gervais
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
World Intellectual Property Organization ◽  
The World

scholarly journals The Role of Party Autonomy in Choosing Procedural Law in Arbitration: the rules of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-231
Author(s):  
Bashayer Alghanim
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
World Intellectual Property Organization ◽  
Party Autonomy ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
Minimal Importance

While the role of parties’ autonomy is of minimal importance when discussing procedures in cases including foreign element presented before the courts, it plays an important role in the choice of applicable law in arbitration procedures. The reason for this is that an arbitrator is not subject to law of jurisdiction, in the same way as a national judge. In response to the development of protection of intellectual property, the World Intellectual Property Organization “WIPO” organization has established an arbitration and Mediation centre, described as the first institutional international center specialized in settling intellectual property disputes, and has given the parties freedom to choose the law applicable to procedure. The study concludes that it is essential to introduce amendments to the WIPO arbitration rules to guarantee legal clarity and prevent confusion, such as imposing characterization to the law of the selected seat of arbitration, the need for explicit choice on the law governing the arbitration procedures, and clarification about what is meant by the law of the seat of arbitration in the absence of choice.

WIPO's International Registration of Trademarks: An International Administrative Act Subject to Examination by the Designated Contracting Parties

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1597-1624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
World Intellectual Property Organization ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Industrial Property ◽  
Intergovernmental Organization ◽  
Intellectual Property Law ◽  
The World

Although the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a technical intergovernmental organization with a limited mandate, it has been entrusted with a panoply of tasks. These include, inter alia, the international harmonization of intellectual property law, the administration of fee-based global intellectual property protection services, and the delivery of dispute resolution services to individuals. While the central role of WIPO in the continuous development of substantive intellectual property law has been questioned by developing countries, the administrative activities of WIPO have remained largely unscathed by critique and, therefore, have not attracted much attention. They revolve around the international filing, registration or recognition of industrial property rights, such as patents, industrial designs and trademarks, and provide an interesting perspective on the law of international institutions.

Legal Protection of the Web Page as a Database

2009 ◽  
pp. 2616-2631
Author(s):  
Davide Mula ◽  
Mirko Luca Lobina
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
World Intellectual Property Organization ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Web Page ◽  
European Directive ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

Nowadays the Web page is one of the most common medium used by people, institutions, and companies to promote themselves, to share knowledge, and to get through to every body in every part of the world. In spite of that, the Web page does not entitle one to a specific legal protection and because of this, every investment of time and money that stays off-stage is not protected by an unlawfully used. Seeing that no country in the world has a specific legislation on this issue in this chapter, we develop a theory that wants to give legal protection to Web pages using laws and treatment that are just present. In particular, we have developed a theory that considers Web pages as a database, so extends a database’s legal protection to Web pages. We start to analyze each component of a database and to find them in a Web page so that we can compare those juridical goods. After that, we analyze present legislation concerning databases and in particular, World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treatments and European Directive 96/92/CE, which we consider as the better legislation in this field. In the end, we line future trends that seem to appreciate and apply our theory.

The PCT Termbase of the World Intellectual Property Organization

Terminology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-200
Author(s):  
Cristina Valentini ◽  
Geoffrey Westgate ◽  
Philippe Rouquet
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
World Intellectual Property Organization ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Specific Subject ◽  
Patent Cooperation Treaty ◽  
Text Type ◽  
The World

Many key terminology databases are managed by national and international organizations. However, the methodology behind the development of such databases has rarely been discussed. This paper presents the terminology database of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the scientific and technical patent terminology database in ten languages available for browse online in WIPO Pearl. The article discusses in detail the design and structure of the PCT Termbase with reference to ISO standards. Divergences are explained in light of specific aspects of the workflow and the text type under consideration — patents. Thus, traditional problematic areas of terminography are addressed from a practical perspective, e.g. identifying concepts and terms; attributing a concept to a specific subject field in a multidisciplinary database; multilingual equivalence; quality control in terminology management; building domain ontologies from/in terminology databases. A comprehensive understanding of the PCT Termbase is thereby provided.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document