Today USTR hosted an interagency hearing on the entrance of Mexico into the TPP negotiations. Other agencies on the panel were Agriculture, EPA, State, Commerce, Labor, and Treasury. In her opening statement, Barbara Weisel...
Read MoreA New Ministry of Culture in Brazil [Allan Rocha de Souza] Just after entering her 21st month heading the Ministry of Culture in Brazil, Ana de Hollanda was dismissed on Tuesday, September 11. The new Minister, Marta Suplicy, a...
Read MoreLast month, the Panamanian executive branch introduced new copyright legislation to bring the nation into compliance with its Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. The executive would like the legislature to pass it by October....
Read MoreIndia’s Intellectual Property Appellate Board has rejected Bayer’s request for a stay on the compulsory licensed issued for the anticancer drug sorafenib tosylate, (sold by Bayer under the brand name Nexaver). The compulsory...
Read MoreOn Sunday, TPP negotiators concluded their 14th round of negotiations. The IPR talks revolved around cooperation on IPRs, trademarks, and geographical indications. Progress in the IPR negotiations were said to be progressing...
Read MoreThe California legislature has unanimously passed two bills sponsored by Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg aimed at developing free textbooks for students the state university system. Students should eventually be...
Read MoreCopyright legislation has been introduced in Panama in order to bring the country into compliance with the terms of its trade agreement with the United States. Bill no. 510 “On Author’s Rights and Neighboring...
Read MoreFourteenth Round of TPP Negotiations Underway in Leesburg, Virginia Negotiators meeting in Leesburg, VA this week heard presentations from civil society and gave a public briefing on September 9. Copyright, trademarks and GIs...
Read MoreThe Japanese Diet legislature voted on Thursday to ratify the Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The Inquirer reports that the agreement was rushed through the House in the middle of the night, in a matter of minutes. According...
Read MoreNext Round of TPP Negotiations Begins on Thursday; Comments on the Entry of Canada and Mexico Due Tomorrow The fourteenth round of negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement begins on September 6 and runs through...
Read MoreNearly 12,000 people have signed a petition in support of a lawsuit challenging Colombia’s copyright bill passed last year to comply with the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
Senator Camilo Romero has challenged the controversial law (known popularly as “Ley Lleras 2”) in the Constitutional Court. He warns that the law severely limits rights such as freedom of expression and privacy, and it restricts access to knowledge.
Read MoreThe fourteenth round of negotiations of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement will be held from September 6-15 in Leesburg, Virginia next month. The Stakeholder events – where members of civil society interact with negotiators...
Read MoreA coalition of eighteen Thai civil society groups has written an open letter to the European Parliamentary delegation to Thailand. The letter warns that the TRIPS-Plus provisions in the trade agreement between EU and Thailand...
Read More[From the EFF Deeplinks Blog] Civil Society groups from around the Pacific Region join forces to oppose the exceptions and limitations framework in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) proposed by the Office of the US...
Read MoreInfojustice Roundup A Comparative Table of Brazilian Copyright Reform Draft Bills [by Pedro Mizukami] The following note explains the contents of the table attached to the blog post: The WIPO translation was used for the...
Read MoreAstraZeneca has concluded research agreements with the South African firm iThemba, the University of Dundee and the University of California at San Francisco through WIPO’s “RE:Search” program. A WIPO press...
Read MoreOver 5,000 people have used the Access speakout platform to send messages to their legislators voicing concern over a controversial computer crimes bill that has been introduced in Peru. The legislation’s critics warn that...
Read MoreOn Wednesday, the Indian Supreme Court will begin final arguments in Novartis’ challenge of Section 3(d) of the country’s patent law. In 2006, the Patent Office rejected Novartis’ patent application for the cancer drug imatinib...
Read MoreInfojustice Roundup A Comparative Table of Brazilian Copyright Reform Draft Bills [by Pedro Mizukami] The following note explains the contents of the table attached to the blog post: The WIPO translation was used for the...
Read MoreAnton Vickerman has become the first man in Great Briton to be sentenced to prison for owning a website that linked to content hosted elsewhere on the internet. His website, Surfthechannel, did not host infringing content, so...
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