Wednesday whimsies
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Some patent-y readers have often expressed an interest in knowing when the special edition of the PCT Applicant’s Guide, prepared for students sitting the EQE [European Qualifying Examination] exams, will be available. WIPO's Rosina Bisi (katpat!) has kindly written to let us know that WIPO is in the process of compiling a new version, which will contain the entire contents of the Guide as of 31 December 2012, and that the plan is to post it on the WIPO website during the week of 21 January. Rosina promises to tell the Kats when its live and available for download.
Just out and not yet in the IPKat's paws is a new book, International Copyright Law and Access to Education in Developing Countries, by Susan Isiko Štrba. According to the publisher's blurb,
"In International Copyright Law and Access to Education in Developing Countries: Exploring Multilateral Legal and Quasi-Legal Solutions, Susan Isiko Štrba offers an understanding of the legal relationship between copyright regulation and access to education in developing countries, and explores both institutional and normative ways to facilitate access to printed educational and research materials.Full details of this title, which is published by Brill and retails at £112, can be found here.
The author explores the question of whether limitations or exceptions (flexibilities) in international intellectual property law can be utilised to balance the private interest of intellectual property right holders and the public interest of IP users and highlights the role of national institutions in crafting case-by-case educational exceptions in ways that may make WTO retaliation more onerous. Institutional reform and normative re-ordering within the intellectual property system and affiliated institutions are evaluated within an overall framework of new approaches for providing access solutions".