DNA Scandal Raises Pressure on WIPO Director General
Francis Gurry, the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), finds himself in a precarious position this week as news has surfaced about a bizarre and presumably illegal...
View ArticleWill Scandal Cost Francis Gurry a Second Term at WIPO?
There is a lot at stake as WIPO picks its next Director General. Gurry himself replaced a WIPO Director General mired in scandal, and the WIPO mission is far too important to allow the agency to be...
View ArticleWIPO Meets to Begin Selection of Next Director General
We are now down to crunch time in the selection process for Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). During meetings held May 8 – 9, 2014, the General Assembly will...
View ArticleDespite Scandals Francis Gurry Gets Second Term at WIPO
WIPO is an agency of the United Nations, so I suppose a Gurry reappointment was to be expected. After all, the UN is poised to declare that the Catholic Church’s pro-life teachings are tantamount to...
View ArticleWIPO Member States ask UN to Investigate Francis Gurry
The intellectual property community has become familiar with scandals over the last decade as well, although nothing that rivals the audacity of the reported FIFA scandal to be sure. A little more than...
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