Re: [wg-c] FYI South-North Development Monitor (SUNS) #4545

["Keith Gymer" <keith.gymer@btinternet.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Brunner <brunner@world.std.com>
wrote

Subject: [wg-c] FYI South-North Development Monitor (SUNS) #4545


> It being Armistice Day, I'm using my two-per-day letters to teach, or at
> least leave in the DNSO record two attempts to do so.
>
> The first one (this), is from one of the lists in which the participants
> share a central concern over the flaws in, and efforts to reform, the
> legal systems affecting intellectual property, culture, agriculture and
> medicine. The theoretical perspective and real-life situation is "south"
> which incidently encompases all Indians, even those in North America.
>


This is no doubt a subject which will be  addressed in Seattle next month,
but the relevance of this alleged inconsistency between the CBD and the
WTO/TRIPS (which principally relates to patent concerns) to wg-c seems
tenuous indeed.

Or is Eric suggesting in a roundabout way that the DNS should perhaps have
rules to take away www.redskins.com (for example) from its present owners in
light of the recent US decision to strike the corresponding trade mark
registration?

Keith