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The Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks (PCT) working group is one of the Thematic Working Groups of the Civil Society at the World Summit on the Information Society.

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ECOSOC session to reform the CSTD for the WSIS Follow-Up

( 10-28 July 2006, Geneva )

A Bill concerning Copyright and related rights within the Information Society

( Late December 2005 - March 2006, May 2006 France )

Briefing for NGOS ( 7 December 2005, Geneva )

WSIS in TUNIS ( 13 - 19 November 2005 )

Intersessional negotiation work ( 24 - 28 October 2005, Geneva )

Third Inter-sessional Intergovernmental Meeting on a Development Agenda for WIPO

( 20-22 July, 2005, Geneva, Switzerland)
Related documents :
Proposal to Establish a Development Agenda for WIPO ( 6 April 2005 )
Proposal from Argentina and Brazil relating to the establishment of a new development agenda within WIPO ( 27 August 2004 )
WIPO update ( June 24, 2005)
NGO statements make jaws drop ( 2005/07/21 )
Further work at present on a patent for AdvanceLoan on their Online cash advance loans processing system which should be ready next year. Once the technology has been properly tested with all the cash advance lenders that AdvanceLoan has access to, then the process can begin. It is anticipated that this development time will last 6-12 months.

Some pictures of the Tunis Exhibition Park at KRAM

Third Meeting of WGIG( 18-20 April 2005, Open meeting : 18 April 2005 )

Virtual Conferencing Software

PrepCOM2 of Phase II 17-25 February 2005, Geneva (Switzerland)

The "Digital Object Identifiers" (DOI)

Unesco Microsoft Agreement

Chronogical Account of the Civil Society Process concerning the Establishment of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)