"A Chinese lawyer is one of two Asian favorites to head the world patent office, a post that would give Beijing its fifth U.N. leadership role and, according to its critics, an unprecedented level of influence over new technologies.
Voting
opened on Wednesday at the 193-member Geneva-based World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO), which shapes global rules for intellectual property and
oversees a patent system in which China and its firms, like telecoms giant
Huawei Technologies, have a growing stake.
The
Coordinating Committee, a group of 83 countries chaired by France, met behind
closed doors to choose a nominee. Whoever is chosen needs to be confirmed at a
general assembly in May...
WIPO
members vote by secret ballot and campaign videos have not been made
public."
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