UNCITRAL and security rights in IP

Last month this weblog gave advance notice of a seminar it proposed to hold in Central London on the afternoon of 14 October on UNCITRAL and Security Rights in IP. Further details are now available from the IPKat weblog here.

UNCITRAL guidelines on IP securitisation: the INTA's response

I have a copy of "Key Principles and Concerns Regarding Security Interests in Intellectual Property: the Perspective of Trademark Owners", this being a document submitted by the Security Interests Subcommittee of the Treaty Analysis Committee of the International Trademark Association (INTA) to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Working Group VI (Security Interests),21 February 2008. This document concludes:

"The intellectual property Annex to UNCITRAL’s Guide is a welcome opportunity for the global intellectual property community to address any unsatisfactory, ambiguous or contradictory provisions in the Guide that would negatively impact intellectual property owners, purchasers and licensees, as well as financiers who rely on intellectual property as collateral. We believe strongly that the Annex needs to provide specific recommendations on how intellectual property issues that arise in the context of commercial financing should be treated. It will not be sufficient, and the Annex will fail of its purpose, if it serves solely as an “issue-spotting” document but fails to provide real and effective guidance to the legislatures of enacting states".

If anyone would like to see this document, just email me here and I'll send it. If you have any content-related comments, contact Thilo C. Agthe (Chair, Security Interests Subcommittee, INTA).

UNCITRAL draft: last chance to comment?

IP Finance has received a copy of Working Paper 33 on security rights in intellectual property rights, as revised pursuant to the recent expert group meeting (Vienna, 21-23 January 2008). It's nearly 50 pages in length and runs to over 24,000 words. However, UNCITRAL wants comments on it by not later than 22 February 2008. If you want a copy, email Jeremy here and he'll send it to you (there may be a delay of a day or two, since he's travelling and has limited access to the internet for the next few days). This topic may be finalised at UNCITRAL's meeting in New York this coming May, in which case this may be the IP community's final fling.