[pp.int.general] Fwd: [The IPKat - supporting prudent IP use] WIPO takes on the world's climate

[Amelia Andersdotter]

i often fail to understand if he's really sarcastic or at least partly
believes what he says :)

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From: Jeremy <jjip at btinternet.com>
Date: 2009/12/16
Subject: [The IPKat - supporting prudent IP use] WIPO takes on the world's
climate
To: ipkat_readers at googlegroups.com


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*Not content with solving all known legal, economic, social and cultural
issues *arising out of intellectual property rights, the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) is now tackling climate change. According
to today's
press release
<http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2009/article_0060.html>("WIPO
Outlines How It Can Help Meet the Challenges of Climate Change"):

"WIPO Director General Francis Gurry participated on December 16, 2009 in a
series of events related to international climate talks in Copenhagen and
outlined how WIPO can contribute to international efforts to mitigate
climate change. Mr Gurry underlined that policies that stimulate the
creation and diffusion of technology are key elements in developing an
effective and practical global response to the threats posed by climate
change *[This statement is true, but in a way so is its opposite. The same
policies have stimulated the technologies that caused the threats in the
first place]*. He said judicious use of the intellectual property (IP)
system can make a positive contribution in crafting the many and diverse
technological solutions needed to attenuate the impacts of climate change *[so
long as those solutions aren't business methods or other excluded patentable
subject matter ...].*

Speaking at a side event on the theme “International Cooperation on
Technology Transfer: Time for Action,” Mr. Gurry said achieving a
transformation from a carbon-based society to a carbon-free one is a complex
and unprecedented task that will require innovative and complementary
approaches to technology policy* [WIPO has already implemented a shift to a
less carbon-dependent policy, by cutting Merpel off its list of Christmas
card recipients].*

Intellectual property (IP), he said, has an important role to play in
technology policy - encouraging investment in the creation of
environment-friendly technologies and their rapid dissemination are major
policy objectives to which priority must be given. In both cases, the IP
system, and in particular patents, are fundamentally important in that they
provide a stimulus for investment in green innovation and contribute to a
rapid – and global – diffusion of new technologies and knowledge *[This is
important: the impending death of a planet is a stimulus to survive through
change, but IP is a stimulus to invest while there's still time].
*
Green innovation requires significant private investment. An effective
patent system provides an incentive for businesses to make such an
investment by making an invention a tradable good which can be licensed or
assigned creating opportunities for technology partnerships and commercial
return. Effective patent protection can thus spur international technology
transfer from the private sector *[The IPKat remains amazed at how poor,
overall, has been the apparent record of the public sector in investing in
the critical technologies over the years].
*
Mr. Gurry said the patent system provides the most comprehensive public
repository of information on the latest technologies – as all patent
documents are published and freely available to the public *[It's good to
remind people of this].* This information contains knowledge that already
exists and which can support the development of new technologies or help to
identify technologies that are off-patent or no longer protected and
therefore freely available for use or adaptation. It is necessary to ensure
that this information is widely disseminated for instance through tools and
services that enhance access to up-to-date information on relevant
technologies through patent information resources. ...".

The IPKat is pleased to see WIPO taking the initiative and advocating the
positive uses to which IP can be directed. This is much better than waiting
to defend the usual assaults from well-meaning but often
<http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CHG2GRbeET8/SykOOnpkSfI/AAAAAAAANpk/-fg611gxD24/s1600-h/blofeld.bmp>ill-informed
critics who view the innovation process with a degree of hindsight that
makes it difficult for them to see how risky it can be to develop any new
product or process.

*Left: With a warm feline on his lap, this elderly gentleman can dispense
with his hot-water-bottle or reduce the level of his central heating*

Merpel says, no-one fully appreciates the role played by cats in reducing
carbon output, by acting as animate hot-water-bottles for chilly humans.

Cats and cold weather
here<http://www.cozycatfurniture.com/cat_newsletters/catnewsletter16.html>
Cats and warm weather
here<http://www.thecatsite.com/Care/9/Keeping-Cats-Cool.html>
Cool for Cats here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_For_Cats_%28TV_show%29>

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