Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest • Volume 5 • Number 42 • 12th December 2001
New ICTSD internet portal on intellectual property rights
Note To Subscribers
In order to include coverage of the WTO’s 19-20 December meeting of the General Council, BRIDGES Weekly’s final edition for 2001 (Vol. 5 No. 43) will be sent on Thursday 20 December rather than on Tuesday 18 December. The first issue of 2002 will be published on 15 January.
ICTSD has launched http://www.IPRsonline.org - a new internet portal on intellectual property rights (IPRs) and sustainable development. The site contains a selection of relevant online documents and resources related to IPRs and sustainable development including a guide to IPRs, submissions to the WTO, discussion papers classified by topics, a calendar of IPR-related events, latest IPR news, and links to listservs and relevant institutions working on IPRs.
The portal was developed by ICTSD in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in the framework of a capacity building project on IPRs and development. Its objective is to help trade policy makers and influencers in developing countries assess the impact of different IPRs on development; strengthen their understanding of the options for advancing their public policy objectives through the implementation or review of TRIPs; and support their informed participation in ongoing and future negotiations.
The new portal is currently available at http://www.iprsonline.org and will move to its home at http://www.iprsonline.org shortly. Further information on the UNCTAD- ICTSD capacity building project on IPRs can be found at http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/index.htm.
Latest BRIDGES Monthly now available
The latest edition of ICTSD’s monthly news and analysis publication, BRIDGES Between Trade and Sustainable Development, is now available in pdf format from the ICTSD homepage at http:// www.ictsd.org. The issue is a special post-Doha Ministerial edition, and contains analysis on the range of issue areas at the intersection between trade and sustainable development emanating from the WTO’s Fourth Ministerial Conference in Doha in November.