In this webcast, recorded August 27, American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property faculty Jorge Contreras, Jonas Anderson and Christine Farley discuss the Apple-Samsung...
Read MoreAccording to Inside US Trade, Intellectual Property negotiators at the San Diego round of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Negotiations are discussing the “less controversial areas, including copyrights and general...
Read MoreThe Australian Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Treaties issued a report today recommending that “the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement not be ratified by Australia” unless and until the government can...
Read MoreIn regard to the announcement from USTR that Mexico would be invited to join the TPP Negotiations, Sean Flynn, Associate Director of American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual...
Read MoreThere are increasing reports that the IP chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is being perceived as a problem by some officials in that country. At a government briefing of media stakeholders yesterday, an official...
Read MoreWithout ever mentioning the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations directly, a new issue brief by UNDP and UNAIDS strongly criticizes all of the major proposals on medicines issues included in the U.S. proposal that...
Read MoreUSTR has announced that the next round of TPP negotiations will be held in San Diego, California from July 2-10. The Stakeholder Engagement Forum for that round will take place on Monday, July 2. The release from USTR shows...
Read MoreToday, a group of nearly 50 U.S. legal scholars sent an open letter to the Members of the Senate Finance Committee asking them to “exercise your constitutional responsibility to ensure that the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade...
Read MoreA new (Spanish language) news story contains a quote by a higher level government official to the effect that Chile may pull out of the TPP negotiations if the U.S. does not significantly moderate its intellectual property...
Read MoreYesterday, we sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk, signed by over 30 legal scholars, criticizing the decision to cancel full day stakeholder presentations for the current round of negotiations being held...
Read MoreOver 30 legal academics from current or potential future Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiating countries wrote to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today. The letter, the text of which is posted below,...
Read MoreWritten remarks of Sean Flynn, American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property Press briefing on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiation, May 2, 2012, 2pm EST....
Read MoreBeginning with the 2009 report, the USTR began hosting a public hearing and making small efforts to improve public participation in the Special 301 adjudication process. But, as in the past, the 2012 report shows that USTR...
Read More(with research by Marcela Palacio Puerta) The latest example of a rushed copyright reform process to implement an unbalanced law while stifling public debate occurred in Colombia last week. Over a scant 18 days (including a...
Read MoreAt a PIJIP-hosted seminar on intellectual property and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) last week, present and former Chilean trade officials questioned whether joining the TPP would be worth its costs if it...
Read MoreThe enclosed draft chart compares the IP enforcement provisions of the US TPP proposal with TRIPS and ACTA. It is a work in progress and does not contain every section yet. This document is being shared with negotiators at the...
Read MoreThis morning a group of nearly 70 international intellectual property academics and experts wrote to the Colombian legislature “in response to what we perceive as a hurried process to implement the provisions of the...
Read MoreStakeholder registering for the Dallas round of TPP negotiators have been informed that the conference style presentation format supported at all previous rounds has been disbanded and in place stakeholders will be given options...
Read MoreThe occasion of Senator’s Wyden’s proposed amendments halting the US ratification of ACTA without express (ex post) congressional approval provides a fine time to analyze the legal justification the administration has offered...
Read MoreThe opposition to the “access window” medicines chapter is drawing increased press coverage. A recent article by Inside-U.S. Trade reports on the opposition, explaining that other TPP member countries “have...
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