August 8, 2011
IP Enforcement Roundup British Government Announces “Sweeping Reforms” of IP Law The UK plans to modernize intellectual property law by implementing the recommendations in the May 2010 Hargreaves report. It announcement...
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Over 200,000 John Does Sued for File Sharing in the U.S. Since the Start of 2010
Copyright owners have greatly increased the number of lawsuits for filesharing in the U.S., and have sued 201,828 John Does since the beginning of 2010. TorrentFreak has published data on the cases, and describes them as part...
Read MoreEuropean Parliament Committee on International Trade Seeks Legal Guidance on ACTA
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) has posted a letter sent July 18 by the European Parliament Committee on International Trade to the Parliament Legal Service which asks a series of questions on ACTA –...
Read MoreTen Representatives Ask USTR for Meeting on IP Provisions in the TPP that Threaten Access to Medicines
In a letter to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, ten members of Congress have asked for a meeting to discuss “the approach your office is considering for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement negotiations that would...
Read MoreAaron Swartz Charged with Wire Fraud for Downloading 4.8 Million Articles from JSTOR
Aaron Swartz, the founder of the nonprofit Demand Progress and a fellow at Harvard University’s Safra Centre for Ethics, was arrested last month for downloading 4.8 million JSTOR articles from a server at MIT. If...
Read MoreBritish Government Announces “Sweeping Reforms” of IP Law
The UK plans to modernize intellectual property law by implementing the recommendations in the May 2010 Hargreaves report. It announcement highlighted reforms including exceptions to copyright for private copying, parody, and...
Read MoreUK Business SecretaryAnnounces “Sweeping Intellectual Property Reforms”
UK Business Secretary Vince Cable is expected to announce legislation to change British copyright law tomorrow. Press reports in the Financial Times and the Guardian indicate that the news legislation adopt some of the...
Read MoreAugust 1, 2011
IP ENFORCEMENT ROUNDUP India and EU Announce Agreement on Dispute Over Seizures of Drugs in Transit India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced an agreement with the EU to settle their dispute over the seizure of...
Read MoreThree Governors, Three Trade Associations, and Five Theater Chains Urge Senators to Support the PROTECT-IP Act
The Motion Picture Association of America has announced eleven different letters in support of the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (S.968 – the ‘PROTECT-IP...
Read MoreMexican Senators Ask President to Reject ACTA
The Mexican Senate has asked President Calderon to reject ACTA. A statement by a group of Senators led by Eloy Cantu Segovia (translated by Geraldine Juarez, and printed in English on Techdirt) said that ACTA “would...
Read MoreIndia and EU Announce Agreement on Dispute Over Seizures of Drugs in Transit
India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced an agreement with the EU to setting their dispute over the seizure of Indian generic drugs in transit. The EU has agreed to adopt guidelines for its customs...
Read More40 Members of Congress Ask Obama to Include 12 Year Period of Data Exclusivity for Biologics in the TPP
Forty Members of the House of Representatives have written President Obama urging that the intellectual property chapter of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) include a requirement that countries offer 12 years of data...
Read MoreHouse Democrats: Keep “May 10” Trade Policy Consensus on IP, Labor and Environmental Issues in the TPP
On July 26, fourteen Democratic Members of the House Committee on Ways and Means have written President Obama asking that a policy deal struck in 2007 by Congressional Democrats and the Bush Administration to guide the...
Read MoreJuly 25, 2011
IP ENFORCEMENT ROUNDUP European Parliament DG for External Policies Policy Department Report Recommends Against “Unconditional Consent” for ACTA The EU Directorate General for External Policies has issued a report on ACTA in...
Read More22 Representatives: Use IP Language in Korea FTA as Baseline for TPP Negotiations
A July 13 letter from 22 Members of Congress to President Obama asks the administration to seek high standards for intellectual property protection in the Trans Pacific Partnership, and to use the provisions in the pending...
Read MoreAustralian Ambassador: Tobacco Packaging Legislation Does Not Violate TRIPS
Australian Ambassador Kim Beasley has vowed that Australia will not change the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act, which prohibits cigarette packs from displaying brands and logos, despite accusations that the law violates...
Read MoreAnalysis of Leaked US Proposal for the TPP by U. Queensland’s Kimberlee Weatherall
Kimberlee Weatherall from University of Queensland TC Beirne School of Law has written a detailed analysis of the copyright and IP enforcement provisions of the US proposed text for the IP chapter of the Trans Pacific...
Read MoreEU Study Warns that “Unconditional Approval” of ACTA Would Be “Inappropriate”
The EU Directorate General for External Policies has issued a report on ACTA in advance of this fall’s debate over ratification. Its primary recommendation is that “unconditional consent would be an inappropriate response...
Read MoreJuly 18, 2011
IP-ENFORCEMENT ROUNDUP EC Releases 2010 Customs Seizure Statistics The EU has published its annual “Report on EU Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights.” Last year, EC customs officials seized 79,112...
Read MoreEC Releases “Report on EU Customs Enforcment of Intellectual Property Rights”
Last year, EC customs border seized 79,112 shipments with a total retail value of €1.1 billion. The number of cases was nearly double that of last year (43,572). The shipments seized were smaller in volume, and the number of...
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