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Innovation and Climate Change highlights

francesca — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:28:16 +0000

This is a smorgsbord of the key messages and themes in the debate on patents, technology transfer and development, as highlighted at the WIPO Conference on Innovation and Climate Change.

Carl Horton (July 2011)

francesca — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:36:12 +0000

Carl Horton, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, General Electric (GE), dicusses the technology transfer programmes they currently run, touching on the problems and incentives. He lists their requirements, emphasising the ethical requirements. He says that green technologies are decades old, and that patents only cover the most recent developments. He finishes on his concerns over tarriff barriers.

Chandrashekhar Dasgupta (July 2011)

francesca — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:28:01 +0000

Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, Ambassador and Distinguished Fellow for The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) says we urgently need a massive leap in technology and “a transformation of the current energy order”. He discusses the technology needs of developing countries and the current state of play. He identifies what needs to happen in terms of technology transfer and development, saying Annex I countries need to speed up their mitigation.

Rathindra Roy (July 2011)

francesca — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:22:50 +0000

Rathindra Roy, from the Villgro Innovations Foundation, explains how his foundation helps the rural poor in India take products to market. He talks about South-South technology transfer, the need for a technology exchange and how WIPO Green might help. He finishes on explaining how international treaties do not affect the innovation they are carrying out.

Christian Wichard (July 2011)

francesca — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:13:39 +0000

Christian Wichard, Deputy Director General at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), introduces the platform WIPO Green, a way of matching technologies up to users. He explains how this will accelerate technology transfer to developing countries. He says that they are widening this to look at the technology needs and sources of financing. He finishes on the negotiations on traditional knowledge and intellectual property.

Jim Pooley (July 2011)

francesca — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:43:48 +0000

Jim Pooley, Deputy Director General for Patents at the World Intellectual Property Organization, discusses how patents lead to innovation. He looks at the trade-offs and benefits, and how the patent system is the “proven best way” to get as much out there as possible. He refers to China and how their subsidies are enabling a whole class of innovators to enter the global economy.

Francis Gurry (July 2011)

francesca — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:34:43 +0000

Francis Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), explains why innovation is fundamental to tackling climate change and building a green economy. He discusses how technology is unevenly shared worldwide and examines the public policy tensions between stimulating the creation of new technologies and the imperative to diffuse them on a global scale. He explores exhaustion of rights and parallel importation – looking at the differential prices across markets. He finishes on what could be achieved at Durban, explaining that “the patent system is the memory of humanity’s technology”.

Quentin Tannock on mass technology transfer (July 2011)

francesca — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:25:50 +0000

Quentin Tannock, from Cambridge IP, talks about their research with Chatham House, and the length of time it takes for technology to reach the mass adoption phase.

Wend Wendland (July 2011)

francesca — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:29:10 +0000

Wend Wendland, World Intellectual Property Organization, delves into the issues of traditional knowledge, looking at where the rights lie, and the treaties emerging to protect them.

Pedro Roffe (July 2011)

francesca — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:11:23 +0000

Pedro Roffe, Senior Fellow at International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), says that one of the problems is the relationship between intellectual property and climate technologies. He looks at the current European patent landscape, expressing dismay at the challenges ahead for technology transfer, discussing access, information and collaboration.