Gilead has become the first pharmaceutical company to license patents it holds on antiretroviral medicines to the Medicines Patent Pool, a swiss nonprofit established by UNITAID to collect licenses for the manufacture and...
Read MoreChina’s Vice Minister of Commerce Jiang Zengwei announced at a press conference that the nine-month “Special Operation Against IPR Infringement and Counterfeiting,” which ran from October 2010 to June 2011, led...
Read MoreIP-ENFORCEMENT ROUNDUP European Commission Publishes Synthesis of Comments Received on IPR Enforcement Directive The EC has published a 22 page synthesis of the 380 comments it received it received on the “Report on the...
Read MoreThe EC has published a 22 page “synthesis” of the 380 comments it received on the Report on the Application of Directive 2004/48/EC on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights. Roughly half of the comments...
Read MoreAssociations representing content owners have announced an agreement with ISPs to establish a “common framework of ‘best practices’ to effectively alert subscribers, protect copyrighted content and promote access to legal...
Read MoreUNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe has warned against the inclusion of TRIPS-Plus provisions in the EU-India Free Trade Agreement that would jeopardize the continued manufacture and export of generic medicines. India...
Read MoreIP-Enforcement Roundup Civil Society Groups Oppose IP Enforcement Provisions of New OECD Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy-Making On June 29, the OECD released a Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy-Making, a...
Read MoreThe EC has produced a Proposal for a Council Decision recommending against further review of ACTA before it is passed by the European Parliament. The document opens with an explanatory memo noting that “the Commission has opted...
Read MoreMembers of the Senate Finance Committee offered 97 amendments to legislation meant to implement the three bilateral free trade agreements pending in Congress at a “mark mock up” (which was boycotted by Republicans). Sen. Hatch...
Read MoreOn June 29, the OECD released a Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy-Making outlining principles meant to guide nations’ policies on the internet, aimed at “ensuring that the Internet remains open and dynamic.” The...
Read MoreGoogle has released a new “Transparency Report” which presents country-level data on the number of takedown requests and requests for identities of users that Google received from governments between July and December of 2010. ...
Read MoreIP Enforcement Roundup Second Standing Commission of the Mexican Congress Rejects ACTA The Second Standing Commission of the Mexican Congress has approved a resolution introduced by Sen. Francisco Javier Castellón Fonseca urging...
Read MoreDisagreements over intellectual property and agricultural provisions (as well as concerns over the unfolding EU debt crisis) have led to an impasse in trade negotiations between the EU and the Latin American trade bloc Mercosur....
Read MoreVietnam hosted the seventh round of Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations from June 20-24 in Ho Chi Min City. The US Trade Representative issued a press release announcing “step-by-step progress,” and said that negotiators...
Read MoreAIDS Groups outraged as US declares war on generic AIDS medicines through Free Trade Agreement Negotiations with Vietnam and Malaysia 23 June 2011, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh – The Asia Pacific Network of Positive People (APN+) is...
Read MoreIP-Enforcement Roundup US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel’s Comments at the World Copyright Summit Last week, IP Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel was featured as a keynote speaker at the...
Read MoreA Spanish company that owns two domains seized by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has petitioned the court to release the domains. The company, Puerto 80 Projects, filed a brief in the Second District of New...
Read MoreLast week, “IP Czar” Victoria Espinel was featured as a keynote speaker at the World Copyright Summit, organized by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers. The Wall Street Journal and Tech Dirt...
Read MoreA group of over 50 academics and civil society organizations has established the Communia Association, a nonprofit based in Brussels dedicated to protecting and growing the public domain. According to its homepage, “The...
Read MoreOn June 1, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the illegal streaming of copyrighted material, with testimony from Maria Pallante (Acting U.S. Register of Copyrights), Sandra Aistars (Executive Director, Copyright...
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