Request for WIPO meeting on collaborative development models
Posted here, a letter to US Patent and Trademark Office from the Executive Directors of five library Associations.

We write to express our
surprise and dismay at recent statements reportedly made by the United States Patent and
Trademark Office. According to press reports, the PTO openly chastised the World
Intellectual Property Organization for its favorable reaction to a proposal made to WIPO
Director General Kamil Idris in a July 7 letter signed by several dozen distinguished
scientists, academics, technologists, open-source advocates, consumer advocates,
librarians, industry representatives and economists worldwide. The letter proposed that
WIPO hold a conference on open and collaborative models for development of public
goods. We urge the PTO to reconsider its position and support the holding of such a
conference in 2004.

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