WIPO members to meet for discussing text on Treaty for visually impaired

WIPO members are gathering this week to advance work on a draft treaty on exceptions to copyright for visually impaired readers.An inter-sessional meeting on limitations and exceptions for visually impaired persons and persons with print disabilities is taking place from 17-19 October.

Delegates are working on a revised working document  issued on 26 July, at the 24th session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights 

Among the issues to discuss includes definition of accessible format copy, and of authorized entities, which refers to entities that address the needs of visually impaired persons including providing those persons with services relating to education, and information accessWorking Document for Vissually Impaired

Update: New Text on visually impaired treaty 

 After three days of discussion on treaty for visually impaired WIPO member yesterday closed their discussion after bring out another draft version of the text. 

New text have agreement on what should be the meaning of accessible format however points of disagreement remains as to nature and scope of obligations

Revised WIPO Vissually Impaired Treaty

WIPO launches IP Facts and Figures 2012

WIPO has launched 2012 IP Facts and Figures, which provides an overview of intellectual property (IP) activity based on the latest available year of statistics. Due to the time involved in collecting and reporting statistics to WIPO, most national and regional IP office statistics refer to 2010. 

Four types of industrial property, namely patents, utility models, trademarks and industrial designs has been covered in the publication. The publication focuses on application data only, which is the most often used measure of IP activity. 

The data used in the report have been taken primarily from the WIPO Statistics Database, which is based on WIPO’s Annual IP Survey and on data compiled by WIPO in processing international applications filed via the PCT, Madrid and Hague systems. 

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