Transcript International Bank for Innovation (IBI) ("Green Intellectual Property") - Itaru Nitta, Institut de Hautes Etudes, Geneva ppt, 152kb

International Bank for Innovation*
(IBI)
*Recognized as
"Green Intellectual Property"
by EWG (Annex 2 in the final report),
which WHA63.28 requests
CEWG to explore.
Revenue
✓Green tax on patentees
Tobin tax in the form of
"Patent Assurance Premium"
✓Allocation
from the revenue of patent offices
Possible Annual Revenue
into US
into EU
into JPN
into BRICS + SK
Application 225,000
66,000
61,000
250,000
Grant
85,000
24,000
22,000
150,000
Total
310,000
90,000
83,000
400,000
× 100 USD
31 mils
9 mils
8 mils
40 mils
Total from the assurance premium: 88 mil. USD
WIPO Income from PCT : 444 mil. CHF ➟ 10% Allocation: 44 mil. CHF
Total: ca. 132 mil. USD
cf. avg. Licensing fee : 25 mil. USD
for medicines
avg. Grant scale : 30 mil. USD
per project by Global Found
Source (2009): USPTO, EPO, JPO, K. Ito & Associates, WIPO and Global Fund
Patent Application vs. ODA
PCT
ODA/US
( )
ODA/JPN
( )
Source: WIPO and OECD
Expenditure
for impoverished patients
Request
➠
Deliberation (e.g., WTO/DSU)
➠
Funding
Patent Assurance Premium
✓ Readily building consensus
by industries
✓ Negligible relative to the entire cost
to create a patent
Additional option
to the traditional TRIPS flexibilities
Compulsory licence
or
IBI
(not mandated)
Expenditure for innovators
Funding needed research
Second-Coming-of-Doha Initiative
Targets
✓ Investigatory commission
as a sub-body under the TRIPS Council
✓ Amendment in the TRIPS Agreement
for establishing IBI
Second-Coming-of-Doha Initiative
Services
✓ September, 2011 led by IHEID*, Genève
*Institut de hautes études
internationales et du développement
✓ to provide interested members with
professional consultations
For a solid model in
economics and legitimacy
www.greenip.org