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April 6, 2012 08:36 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xo8B7DOMRMg/wipo-caught-secretly-funneling.html
WIPO caught secretly funneling cash to North Korea to buy patent database computers
A trusted insider source writes, "A real blockbuster of bizarre at WIPO [ed: The World Intellectual Trade Organization, the UN body responsible for copyright and patent treaties]. It seems that [WIPO director general] Francis Gurry has personally approved payment for new computer equipment to go to North Korea to modernise their patent office, and that [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xo8B7DOMRMg/wipo-caught-secretly-funneling.html
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