July 7, 2003. Sign-on letter from 69 scientists and economists to Kamil Idris, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization requesting that WIPO host a meeting on open and collaborative development. CPTech Page on Trade Frameworks for Funding Research and Development. Letters to WIPO September 4, 2003. Letter to WIPO from the Executive Directors of five library Associations. September 4, 2003. Letter from the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue to Rita Hayes, Deputy Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation. (MS Word format) July 7, 2003. Letter from 69 scientists and economists to Kamil Idris, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Requesting that WIPO host a meeting on open and collaborative development. Letters to the US Government September 4, 2003. Letter to USPTO from the Executive Directors of five library Associations. August 22, 2003. Letter from the Open Source And Industry Alliance to Lois Boland, Acting Director of the Office of International Relations at the USPTO August 22, 2003. Larry Lessig's blog on US opposition to the meeting. News Stories November 6, 2003. IT-Analysis.com. WIPO accedes to USA pressures October 1, 2003. Larry Lessig for E-week. Open Source, Closed Minds. October 1, 2003. Frances Williams for the Financial Times. Hopes revive for talks on alternatives to patents. August 28, 2003. Declan Buttler for Nature Magazine. Business backlash kills off software meeting. August 23, 2003. Op-ed by Paul Kedrosky in Canada's National Post. A reasonable discussion hijacked. August 22, 2003. Slashdot. WIPO Pressured to Kill Meeting on Open Source. August 21, 2003. Jonathan Krim for the Washington Post. The Quiet War Over Open Source. August 19, 2003. William New for Technology Daily (2 stories). "Global Group's Shift On 'Open Source' Meeting Spurs Stir," and "U.S. Official Opposes 'Open Source' Talks At WIPO." July 10, 2003. Declan Buttler for Nature Magazine. Drive for patent-free innovation gathers pace.
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