The Competition Commission of India will investigate Ericsson for anticompetitive practices related to its Standard Essential Patents on smartphone technology. The competition complaint arose as part of a dispute between...
Read MoreAt last week’s round of Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations in Salt Lake City, access to medicines campaigners reported that the U.S. administration tabled a new proposal aimed at protecting brand name biologic...
Read MoreThanks to Carolina Rossini for sending an English translation of the new version of Brazil’s Marco Civil legislation. Intellectual Property Watch reports that the bill has hit a roadblock in the legislature, and...
Read MoreLast week, 78 stakeholders submitted comments to the Department of Commerce on policy raised in its recent Green paper Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy. The green paper was written by...
Read MoreThe draft Trans Pacific Partnership chapter on intellectual property, as it stood on August 30, 2013, has been posted at http://wikileaks.org/tpp/. Comments on and analysis of the leak have been made by Knowledge Ecology...
Read MoreToday the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), currently under negotiation between the U.S. and the EU. Testimony was delivered by Michael L. Ducker (FedEx), Ryan...
Read MoreChilean Presidential Candidate Michelle Bachelet has released a platform that includes a chapter on external relations, including trade policy. Michelle Bachelet recommends that Chile undertake a “thorough review of the...
Read MoreThe Hill reports that the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) has sent a letter to the Obama Administration warning that it opposes the inclusion of a 12 year period of data exclusivity for biologic drugs in the Trans...
Read MoreThanks to Inside U.S. Trade for posting the full transcript of President Obama’s October 8 press conference about the government shutdown. During the press conference, New York Times reporter Mark Landler asked Obama if...
Read MoreToday, Prime Ministers meeting in Bali in advance of this week’s APEC meeting expressed skepticism that negotiators will finalize a TPP deal by the end of the year. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak told the press that...
Read MoreThe civil society group Article 19 (named after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantee of freedom of opinion and expression) has published an analysis of Italy’s Draft Regulation on Copyright Protection on...
Read MoreOn Thursday September 26, 2013, American University Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) hosted The Law and Economics of Copyright Users’ Rights. The event featured discussions by economists and...
Read MoreYesterday, American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property held an even the Law and Economics of Copyright Users’ Rights. The event was the launch of an interdisciplinary project to conduct...
Read MoreOn September 12, Eli Lilly formally submitted a Notice of Arbitration against Canada under the rules of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The filing is here. Eli Lilly alleges that Canada violated its NAFTA...
Read MoreOn September 26, AUWCL’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property will hold a public conference on The Law and Economics of Copyright Users Rights. It will serve as a launch of an interdisciplinary project...
Read MoreOn August 28, a group of members of the Peruvian legislature – the Parlamentario Acción Popular-Frente Amplio – proposed a motion that asks for greater transparency in the Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations. ...
Read MoreVietnam’s controversial new “Decree 72 on the Management, Provision and Use of Internet Services and Online Information” went into effect on September 1. The full text in Vietnamese is here.* As reported in...
Read MoreEarlier this week, the U.S. Trade Representative issued a request for public comments regarding the 2014 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE Report). Comments may be submitted by “any interested...
Read MoreThe nineteenth round of Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations will begin this weekend in Brunei Darussalam. In the last few weeks, legislators and other government officials in some of the TPP countries have raised concerns...
Read MoreChilean Senators Navarro, Gomez and Tuma introduced a proyecto de acuerdo to the Senate that asks the President to open a public debate on the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). It formally requests the President to...
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