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World Intellectual Property Organization is seeking a Head, Legislative, Policy and Technology Advice Section, P5 (21119-FT)

Contract Duration: 1 Year (Initial period of one year, renewable, subject to satisfactory performance. No fixed-term appointment or any extension hereof shall carry with it any expectancy of, nor imply any right to, (further) extensions or conversion to a permanent appointment.)

Duty Station: Geneva, Switzerland

Application Deadline: July 13, 2021, 5:59:00 PM

Important Notice Regarding Application Deadline: Pleasenote that the deadline for applications is indicated in local time as per the time zone of the applicants location.

Type of Position: Full-time

Organizational Setting:

The post is located in the Legislative, Policy and Technology Advice Section of the Patent and Technology Law Division, Patents and Technology Sector. This Division is responsible for the implementation of WIPOs strategic goal concerning the balanced evolution of the international normative framework for intellectual property in the area of Patents, Utility Models, Trade Secrets, Technology and Integrated Circuits, and for providing Legislative and Policy assistance to Member States in drafting and updating their national legislation in these fields of IP.

Purpose Statement:

The incumbent directs, supervises and reviews the work of a team that provides legislative, regulatory and policy assistance to Member States in the design and implementation of balanced legislative, regulatory and policy frameworks in those areas as well as the initiation and implementation of strategies in new areas such as trade secrets.

The main role of the incumbent is to independently conduct legal research and analyses on various legal issues related to patents, utility models, technology, trade secrets and layout designs of integrated circuits, and provide authoritative advice and legislative and policy assistance to Member States, and to management and the established bodies of the Organization, as well as Secretariat.

Reporting Lines:

The incumbent works under the supervision of the Director, Patent and Technology Law Division.

The incumbent will perform the following principal duties:

Education (Essential):

Advanced university degree in law.A first-level university degree plus two years of relevant experience in addition to the experience required below may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience (Essential):

At leasttenyears of experience and subject matter expertise in patents, trade secrets and related areas of intellectual property, such as industry standards (SSOs and SEPs). In addition to the above, experience is essential in drafting laws, acts and regulations and writing legal opinions in the areas of patent law, trade secret law and related areas of intellectual property. Detailed understanding of patent law treaties and patent office rules and regulations.

Experience (Desirable):

Language (Essential):

Excellent written and spokenknowledge of English.

Language (Desirable):

Good knowledge of any other United Nations official language.

Job Related Competencies (Essential):

Interested candidates are asked to Apply Online.

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Hello and welcome to another edition of I Speak Electric onBest EV.Today we are peering into our crystal ball and trying to predict the futureof EV technology!Itsgoing to be tough, lets face it. But at least we can have a bit of fun trying.Now theres no way were going to cover it alltodayso well take our pick of a few topics and get stuck into some details.Batteries, Range & ChargingItsimpossible to predict how muchand how fastrange is going to improve. Only ten years ago, the first modern mass-produced EVssuch as the Renault Zoewas coming on stream. And we were seeing a range in these cars of around100km. Although this was plenty to do most peoples daily commute, itwasnthugely impressive.Fast forward to 2021werebeing given some cars that will easily pass 400km, and in favorable conditions go above 600km. Youhave tothink that we may well see the 1,000km mark reached at some stage in the not-too-distant future.

Other modes of transport

Sofarweve only talked about cars. But as we all know, the carisntthe only means of transportation. Now, it seems to be in the world of private transportation that themost advanced EVtechnology is being fosteredjusttake a lookat how Tesla has driven this on.Butwerestarting to see the technology being applied elsewhere.In countries like Norwayand Denmark,werestarting to see electric ferries being rolled out.

It seems the future of EV may include all forms of transport.Powering our EVs

Wevetouched on charging our cars in this video already and how that might change, but we didnt mention where the power is going to come from. This is something that is changing rapidly.

Microgrids and self-sufficiency will be more widespread. People will increasingly have solar panels fitted to their roofs. Shopping centers and schools will have solar fitted and can charge cars with the excess energy produced during the day.Only time will tellhow far advanced this becomes, butitsan exciting period in history.Summary

Well,itsbeen fascinating to take a look into the future like that! Butalsoincredibly difficultI mean just look at the pace of change over the last decade.Soits next to impossible to accurately predict what type of cars well be driving in 10years' time.

Wedlove to hear from you.Have we over, or under-estimated any technology today?What future EV technology are you most excited about?

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Amid a tussle between the Union government and Twitter over the new IT rules, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on IT on Friday told the US-based social media giant that the rule of the land was supreme and the company must abide by the Indian laws.

During a 90-minute deposition before the panel, chaired by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, the Twitter India officials were asked "tough and searching questions", including why the company should not be fined as it has been found "violating" rules of the country, sources said.

Twitter India's public policy manager Shagufta Kamran and legal counsel Ayushi Kapoor deposed before the parliamentary panel.

"We will also continue working alongside the Indian Government as part of our shared commitment to serve and protect the public conversation", the spokesperson said while appreciating the opportunity to share views of Twitter before the Standing Committee on Information Technology.

BJP MPs --Nishikant Dubey, Rajyawardan Rathore, Tejasvi Surya, Sanjay Seth, Zafar Islam, Subhash Chandra-- were among those present during the meeting while from the opposition there were TMC MP Mahua Moitra and TDP MP Jaidev Galla apart from Tharoor.

During the meeting, panel members mostly from ruling BJP asked Twitter officials whether their policy is more important or rule of land, to which officials responded that they respect the Indian laws but they have to follow their policy as well for larger interest, sources said.

The panel members took strong objection to Twitter stance and categorically told them that the rule of land is supreme not the company policy, sources said.

As per sources, there was unanimity in the panel that the Twitter should abide by IT rules and appoint chief compliance officer.

"The answers (by Twitter officials) lacked clarity and were ambiguous", a source said.

It was also raised by the MPs in the meeting that instead of appointing a full-time compliance officer, Twitter has appointed an interim officer, who is a lawyer, sources said.

According to sources, Dubey also raised question over neutrality of fact-checks on Twitter and claimed that many of them are not "politically neutral".

The parliamentary panel had last week summoned Twitter over issues related to misuse of the platform and protection of citizens' rights.

According to sources, the opposition members opined that another round of meeting should be held with Twitter officials, but the panel has sought written reply from Twitter on various questions.

The panel members also held a meeting with Information and Technology Ministry officials after the deposition.

Earlier this month, the Central government issued a notice to Twitter, giving it one last chance to "immediately" comply with the new IT rules and warned that failure to adhere to the norms will lead to the platform losing exemption from liability under the IT Act.

Sources said the panel will also summon top officials of Google, Facebook, YouTube and other tech giants.

Twitter and the Centre have been at loggerheads over several issues for the last few months.

The microblogging site had also faced backlash when it briefly removed the 'blue tick' verification badge from the personal account of Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu and of several senior RSS functionaries, including its chief Mohan Bhagwat.

Earlier, Delhi Police had sent a notice to Twitter, seeking an explanation of how it described an alleged "Congress toolkit" against the Central government as "manipulated media".

The police reportedly had also questioned Twitter India MD Manish Maheshwari on May 31 and visited the Twitter India offices in Delhi and Gurgaon on May 24 over the toolkit issue.

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Rule of land supreme, not your policy: Parliamentary panel on information technology to Twitter - Economic Times

As a managing director in charge of a major front office technology unit at a U.S. investment bank in New York, I get a lot of young people asking me the best coding languages to learn for banking jobs. The answer is, that it depends. However, there'sone language I will always advise people to learn: Python.

Python maybe slowcompared to some other coding languages, but it's the number one language used in finance now. We use it for data analytics and for data investigations and interrogation. Python is also the language of machine learning and AI, and as AI becomes more widely used in finance, so does Python.

Python's big advantage is that it's easy to learn. The syntax is human-readable and intuitive. Its power derives from the multitude of open source librariesavailablein Python for use with machine learning and many other applications.

Alongside Python you should choose at least one other language. OCaml will catch attention, but it's hard to learn - way harder than Java and harder even than C++. However, it's the kind of language that - if you can code well in it - will give you prestige among geeky computer science nerds. Other languages in this category include Lisp and Haskell.

Do you really want to learn an ultra-obscure language though? In finance, we use Java for the broad decision-making within algorithmic trading code, and C++for the higher frequency portion of it. Java derivatives like Scala are used for data ingestion and languages like R and MATLABare used in bespoke research scenarios, and are losing ground.

The languages you choose to learn should therefore depend upon the sort of banking technology job you aspire to. Always learn Python, but your second language will differ. If you want to work on trading execution algorithms, learn Java. If you want to work on derivative pricing, learn C++. If you want to work on user interfaces (UIs), you could also learn Javascript. If you want to work on tick-data level work, there's also Kdb/Q...

There are three languages I would always avoid. These are: Pascal (too old); Julia (too new); and Slang (too proprietary).

Ananda Vyas is the pseudonym of a managing director in technology at a U.S. investment bank

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Energy policy is often judged by three criteria: cost, reliability and effect on carbon emissions. That makes good sense, but I would like to suggest an alternative approach: Ask which green energy policies can get the support of most special-interest groups, and the fewest forces in opposition, and rank them accordingly. That might sound cynical, but given how long and deep the policy failures have run, some cynicism is in order.

The energy sector is remarkably politicized. The current infrastructurecould probably not be built under todays regulatory regime, which may also hinder the development of tomorrows green-energy infrastructure. It is not easy to put wind turbines next to the homes of wealthy, well-organized homeowners. So maybe energy policy needs to start with the political questions first.

Nuclear fission is green, reliable and (currently) expensive. With further technological advances and some degree of regulatory forbearance, it could become much cheaper. It works just fine in France, Sweden and some parts of the U.S.

Yet voters do not like or trust nuclear power, and Japan and Germany are shutting it down. The Indian Point nuclear power plant, which helped to power New York City, was closed prematurely two months ago, and only a few policy wonks complained. Not enough people profit directly from nuclear power to keep the sector up and running. For the public utilities it has become a political and public-relations headache.

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So which green (or greener) energy sources are the most special-interest friendly?

One obvious candidate is solar power, especially when combined with more effective batteries. Many people argue that solar energy isnt powerful or reliable or storable enough, but few people hate the idea of it. Special-interest groups dont have a well-developed critique of solar. The production of more batteries for solar power might in fact involve environmental disruptions, but they are relatively invisible and are not focal. They have not stopped the political elevation of solar power.

Electric cars also appear to be relatively special-interest friendly. Tesla now has a much higher valuation than any of Americas legacy automakers, and no government policies stopped this from happening. Electric cars even received government subsidies.

Removing carbon from the air and sequestering it also seems politically acceptable. There are debates over how cheap carbon sequestration will be, but thats an argument for putting more research and development into this area. Storing carbon, either in plants or underground, does not create highly visible problems. It also might become a profitable line of business for fossil-fuel companies, which would mean one very powerful special-interest in favor of it. The politically powerful but carbon-dirty construction industry has few low-carbon options and likely would be inclined to support these approaches as well, were they to prove feasible on a larger scale.

A less obvious politically viable candidate is geothermal power. It is easy enough in Iceland, El Salvador and Kenya, where geothermal energy is readily accessible, but digging deeper for geothermal energy and sending it up to the surface would require further technological advances. On the plus side, geothermal power does not seem to irritate the Not-in-My-Backyard types, is popular where used, and could be run through a modified version of the existing energy infrastructure, thus minimizing the stranded-assets problem.

Japan seems to be approaching its energy infrastructure with politics at the forefront. It is making a big bet on hydrogen power, which is technologically iffy and expensive, currently about eight times more so than natural gas. Yet Japanese leaders are aware that Japan does not have its own solar power industry at scale, making the country dependent on China for solar panels. Hydrogen can also be used by existing (though modified) power plants, which both reduces cost and eliminates the need for new infrastructure. And if this all works, Japan could become known as the world leader in hydrogen power.

Greenpeace has criticized the Japanese approach, saying that its ammonia-reliant formula for hydrogen power is costly and will itself create greenhouse-gas emissions. That critique may well be right, but its also possible that Japan is thinking through the political questions at a deeper level.

The most relevant question about green energy isnt necessarily about technology or cost. It may be about politics: How many special-interest groups support this idea? If there isnt a decent answer, then maybe the idea doesnt stand a decent chance.

This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.

To contact the author of this story:Tyler Cowen at tcowen2@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story:Michael Newman at mnewman43@bloomberg.net

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "High Purity Alumina - A Global Market Overview" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Hydrolysis is most widely used to process High Purity Alumina (HPA), the demand for which is also likely to be the fastest growing while, by segment, 4N is the most widely consumed type of HPA on a global basis and is also predominant in terms of value demand, which is also anticipated to witness the fastest CAGRs exceeding 10%.

Asia-Pacific constitutes the leading global volume market for High Purity Alumina, estimated to corner a share of 61.1% in 2020. The region's volume consumption is also anticipated to register the fastest 2020-2026 CAGR of 11.7% and reach a projected 64.4 thousand tons by 2026.

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Research Findings & Coverage

Key Topics Covered:

PART A: GLOBAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Product Outline

1.1.1 What is High Purity Alumina?

1.1.2 Production of High Purity Alumina

1.1.2.1 Hydrolysis of Aluminum Alkoxide

1.1.2.2 Hydrochloric Acid (HCl) Leaching

1.1.2.3 Other Technologies

2. HIGH PURITY ALUMINA APPLICATIONS - A MARKET SNAPSHOT

2.1 Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs)

2.1.1 Production of Industrial Sapphires

2.1.1.1 Verneuil Method

2.1.1.2 Czochralski Method (CZ)

2.1.1.3 Kyropoulos Method

2.1.1.4 Heat Exchanger Method (HEM)

2.1.1.5 Edge-Defined Film-Fed Growth Method (EFG)

2.2 Lithium-Ion Battery Separators

2.2.1 A Brief Description of Li-Ion Batteries

2.2.2 The Rationale Behind Using HPA in Li-ion Batteries

2.3 Phosphors

2.4 Semiconductors

3. KEY MARKET TRENDS

3.1 Innovative Coating for Li-Ion Battery Anodes Drives Demand for HPA

3.2 Growth in Demand for High Purity Alumina Being Propelled by the LED Industry

3.3 LED Sapphires Witnessing Competition from Alternative Technologies

3.4 Smaller Applications, too, Driving the Market for HPA

3.5 Alternative Method for Preparing High-Purity, High-Density Alumina Green Body Provides Higher Output

4. KEY GLOBAL PLAYERS

5. KEY BUSINESS TRENDS

6. GLOBAL MARKET OVERVIEW

PART B: REGIONAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE

REGIONAL MARKET OVERVIEW

7. NORTH AMERICA

8. EUROPE

9. ASIA-PACIFIC

10. REST OF WORLD

PART C: GUIDE TO THE INDUSTRY

PART D: ANNEXURE

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A team of scientists in the US has developed a novel vaccine based on mRNA technology that protects against malaria in animal models.

The vaccine relies on a circumsporozoite protein of the Plasmodium falciparumthe parasite species which causes the vast majority of malaria deaths globallyto elicit an immune response.

However, rather than administering a version of the protein directly, this approach uses mRNAaccompanied by a lipid nanoparticle that protects from premature degradation and helps stimulate the immune systemto prompt cells to code for circumsporozoite protein themselves.

Those proteins then trigger a protective response against malaria but cannot actually cause infection.

"Recent successes with vaccines against COVID-19 highlight the advantages of mRNA-based platformsnotably highly targeted design, flexible and rapid manufacturing and ability to promote strong immune responses in a manner not yet explored," said Dr Evelina Angov, a researcher at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Malaria Biologics Branch.

"Our goal is to translate those advances to a safe, effective vaccine against malaria," Angov added. The findings are published in the journal npj Vaccines.

A safe, effective malaria vaccine has long been an elusive target for scientists. The most advanced malaria vaccine is RTS,S. It is based on the circumsporozoite protein of P. falciparum, the most dangerous and widespread species of malaria parasite.

While RTS,S is an impactful countermeasure in the fight against malaria, field studies have revealed limited sterile efficacy and duration of protection. The limitations associated with RTS,S and other first-generation malaria vaccines have led scientists to evaluate new platforms and second-generation approaches for malaria vaccines.

"Our vaccine achieved high levels of protection against malaria infection in mice," said Katherine Mallory, a WRAIR researcher. "While more work remains before clinical testing, these results are an encouraging sign that an effective, mRNA-based malaria vaccine is achievable."

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