IP ENFORCEMENT ROUNDUP Special 301 and the Enforcement Agenda: Competing Perspectives on U.S. Intellectual Property and Trade Policy. PIJIP hosted a debate between two industry advocates with divergent visions of U.S. trade...
Read MoreOn April 6,the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet held a hearing this week on the enforcement of IP online. Titled “Promoting Investment and Protecting Commerce Online:...
Read MoreYesterday PIJIP hosted a a debate between two leading industry advocates with divergent visions of U.S. trade policy on intellectual property and technology matters. The panelists were Matt Schruers, Vice President for Law &...
Read MoreOn Wednesday, April 16, 2011, the Senate Judiciary will hold a hearing titled “Promoting Investment and Protecting Commerce Online: Legitimate Sites v. Parasites, Part II.” This is the second in a series of hearings...
Read MoreSpeaking at an Indian Parliamentary committee meeting on IPRs, Minster of Commerce and Industry Shri Anand Sharma spoke out against seizures of generic medicines in the Netherlands. “These detentions of Indian generics by Europe...
Read MoreIP-ENFORCEMENT ROUNDUP USTR publishes 2011 NTE Report on Foreign Trade Barriers USTR today published the National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, which describes barriers to trade in 60 nations, the European...
Read MoreSenators Brown and Stabenow have introduced the Trade Enforcement Priorities Act of 2011. The legislation “would require the USTR to analyze trade barriers in the National Trade Estimates Report to determine which have the...
Read MoreUSTR today published the NTE Report, which describes barriers to trade in 60 nations, the European Union, and the Arab League. The report contains (very brief) descriptions of the IP landscape in each of the countries covered,...
Read MoreRecord companies have won a summary judgment against the file sharing site Lime Wire for secondary copyright infringement, and they have sought multiple damages per song for each of the 11,000 songs downloaded from the site....
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Read MoreEleven nonprofit organizations and three professors have requested that the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, “issue an urgent appeal” to the governments negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership. The...
Read MoreU.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that the number of seizures of infringing goods at the U.S. border increased 34% in 2010, though the overall value of goods seized...
Read MoreA report written by the Property Rights Alliance’s Hernando de Soto Fellow Kyle Jackson, and supported seven contributors and 67 “partner” organizations ranks 129 countries on property rights. The rankings are broken...
Read MoreIP ENFORCEMENT ROUNDUP IP Enforcement Coordinator Issues Recommendations to Congress, Including Wiretaps and Felony Sentences for Infringement IP Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel has issued a white paper listing 20...
Read MoreIn advance of tbe President Obama’s trip to Brazil, USTR Ron Kirk and Brazilian Minister of External Relations Antonio de Aguiar Patriota signed an agreement establishing a “United States-Brazil Commission on...
Read MoreAt a hearing titled “Promoting Investment and Protecting Commerce Online: Legitimate Sites v. Parasites, Part I” Subcommittee Members heard testimony from Maria Pallente (Acting U.S. Registrar of Copyrights); David Sohn Center...
Read MoreUNAIDS, UNDP, and the World Health Organization have released a policy brief describing the flexibilities in TRIPS available to increase access to medicines, including compulsory licenses, parallel imports and patentability...
Read MoreIP Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel has issued a white paper that lists 20 legislative recommendations to Congress for the strengthening of IP enforcment. The paper recommends increasing prison sentences for the sale of counterfeiting drugs or products sold to military and law enforcement. It recommends changing the U.S. Sentencing Guideline Range for a number of specific infringements and for “repeat intellectual property offenders.” The paper recommends felony penalties for illegal streaming, and the authorization of wiretaps for investigations of copyright infringement. Although it makes no specific recommendations related to foreign-hosted websites that distribute infringing material, the paper says that the administration is eager to work with Congress on this issue.
Read MoreIP ENFORCEMENT ROUNDUP U.S. Proposal for the Trans Pacific Partnership Leaked The leaked IP chapter proposed by the U.S. at the February Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations was circulated last week by Knowledge Ecology...
Read MoreKnowledge Ecology International received a leaked copy of the intellectual property chapter proposed by the U.S. at the February round of negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership. It is available here:...
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