Canaan Bridges Consulting | 3 minute read World Intellectual Property (IP) Day was celebrated a few
Canaan Bridges Consulting | 3 minute read World Intellectual Property (IP) Day was celebrated a few
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What does this mean for your business? Knowing your markets IP rules and their roots are important, it helps to set a sound framework for how your products and services will operate in domestic and foreign jurisdictions. Knowledge of the implications of ratified trade agreements or on-going trade negotiations on your IP also helps you to forecast how changes in IP rules will impact your bottom dollar in vulnerable markets.
High IP activity in the form of registration only has an effect upon innovation if the IP is active in domestic, regional or international markets.
Consistency and sustainability are important keys in the mix. As an aspect of intellectual property and innovation projects, women economic empowerment initiatives need to be consistent and sustainable in their approaches.
How should Geographical Indications (GIs) be positioned in 2020 and beyond so as to remain or become worthwhile IP in your economy? It takes forgetting the old, shaping the new, and taking the new route.
What role can IP play in supporting a progressive blue economy in emerging and developed countries?
It is very likely that the IP provisions of a US-China trade deal will have “fixes” to these shortfalls through specific provisions on trade secrets, copyright protection and enforcement, geographical indications, trademarks and digital trade (and more).
Two of the more pressing issues are (I) the frameworks (legal, business, capital resources) which jurisdictions have in place to facilitate sound relationships between IP and emerging technologies and (II) and whether IP reforms are needed at the multi-lateral level to safeguard the integrity of the IP system.
Can GI registration stabilize avocado and vanilla markets?