Infojustice Roundup Information Justice and the Public Interest ACTA-As-Counterproposal at TPP Negotiations and Other News from Dallas The 12th Round of Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations are currently underway in Dallas. ...
Read MoreGroups that work on intellectual property were behind roughly half of the tables at today’s tabling session at the TPP negotiations in Dallas. An incomplete list included PhRMA, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the...
Read MoreYesterday I gave a presentation on IPRs, technology and growth at the Dallas round of TPP negotiations. The following blog is based on my presentation. The slides I used are here. Policymakers and US industry groups have been...
Read MoreThe 12th round of negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership will be held from May 8-18 in Dallas Texas. Topics to be covered in the negotiations include patents and enforcement of intellectual property. U.S. Chamber of...
Read MoreInfojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest TPP Negotiations to Resume This Week in Dallas The 12th round of negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership will be held from May 8-18 in Dallas Texas. ...
Read MoreNext week, the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade will vote on its draft legal opinion on ACTA. The legal opinion states that the “Commission has ensured that ACTA provisions comply with the...
Read MoreOn May 15, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing on S. 1138, the Prize Fund for HIV/AIDS Act. The bill, introduced a year ago by Sen. Sanders, would provide direct support to innovators...
Read MoreThe U.S. Trade Representative has released the 2012 Special 301 Report, in which it accuses countries of denying “adequate and effective” protection of intellectual property, or discriminating against American companies that...
Read MoreCALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND SAVE THE DATE December 15-17, 2012 FGV Law School Rio De Janeiro, Brazil English | Portuguese Printable Call for Participation We are pleased to announce the Second Global Congress on Intellectual...
Read MoreInfojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Call for Participation: 2012 Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest The Second Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public...
Read MoreOn April 26, the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on “International Patent Issues: Promoting a Level Playing Field for American Industry Abroad.” Witnesses from...
Read MoreInfojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Kenyan High Court Strikes Down Sections of Anticounterfeit Act Justice Mumbi Ngugi of the Kenyan High Court has ruled that sections 2, 32, and 34 of the Kenya...
Read MoreConsumers International has published its annual “IP Watchlist,” a report that examines the copyright laws and policies of 30 countries, determining which are strongest (and weakest) at promoting access to...
Read MoreThe European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee will its rapporteur’s draft opinion on ACTA this Wednesday, and will vote on Thursday whether or not to recommend that Parliament give its consent to the Agreement. FFII has...
Read MoreJustice Mumbi Ngugi of the Kenyan High Court has ruled that sections 2, 32, and 34 of the Kenya Anti Counterfeit Act 2008 “violate the complainant’s right to life and health as it severely limits access to drugs.”...
Read MoreInfojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Colombia Rushes Through Unbalanced Copyright Reform [by Sean Flynn] The latest example of a rushed copyright reform process to implement an unbalanced law while...
Read MoreLast week the Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a report on IP intensive industries in the U.S. “Intellectual Property and the U.S. Economy:...
Read MoreThe Chilean press reports that Senators Fulvio Rossi and Francisco Chahuán have expressed their opposition to legislation in the Congress that would prohibit health regulators from granting marketing approval to medicines which...
Read MoreYesterday, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the EU Parliament held a public debate on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. At the debate, the EU’s Rapporteur for ACTA, MEP David Martin announced that...
Read MoreThe Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law will host a public seminar on intellectual property in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. Centro de Extension,...
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