Enforcement of intellectual property rights
The ACTA Leak is useful, but there are still plenty of secrets
Submitted by Manon Ress on 4. November 2009 - 11:57This is a note about the leaked ACTA documents, that have been reported now by several news organizations and bloggers.*
On September 30, 2009, the EU wrote a three page memo on the Internet chapter of ACTA. This is about a week after the USTR held a secret meeting with selected corporate lobbyists and lawyers to debate the ACTA Internet under terms of a tough non-disclosure agreement.
KEI Statements on USTR Special 301 List
Submitted by James Love on 30. April 2009 - 12:07The USTR report in now out, here.
The following are KEI comments:
Tweeting the USTR 301 list
Submitted by James Love on 30. April 2009 - 8:30The following are some of the “tweets” on the new USTR 301 list:
Tweets from Fordham/Cambridge event, Wed, April 15
Submitted by James Love on 15. April 2009 - 23:00These were my tweets yesterday from the Fordham/Cambridge IPR event:
# Fordham event in Cambridge, UK. Michael Keplinger from WIPO said treaty for reading disabled “would take years and not solve the problem”
# At Fordham/Cambridge IP event, Luc Devigne of DG Trade says ACTA membership will be “enlarged,” become standard for developing countries.
Statement by the United States on patents and standards at WIPO patent committee
Submitted by thiru on 25. March 2009 - 10:54Patents and Standards
The United States thanks the International Bureau for preparing the background paper on Standards and Patents, and we support the statement made by Germany on behalf of Group B.
Mr. Chairman, the United States supports and strongly encourages the use of open standards, as traditionally defined, that is, those developed through an open, collaborative process, whether or not intellectual property is involved.
EC’s two medicines in transit exceptions
Submitted by James Love on 24. March 2009 - 6:00At the WIPO SCP coffee break, one attendee explained to KEI that the EU has in two places, (1) the regulations on tiered pricing, and (2) the implementation of the WTO’s 30 August 2003 decision on compulsory licensing, created an exception for goods in transit to developing countries.
DG Trade and DG Customs Union reply to TACD on Seizures of Medicines in Transit
Submitted by James Love on 24. March 2009 - 3:47The European Commissioners for External Trade and for Taxation and Customs Union have replied to TACD in a letter available here:
Dear All,
Notes from Day one of WIPO SCP 13
Submitted by James Love on 24. March 2009 - 1:50WIPO’s five day 13th meeting of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) began on Monday, and will go through Friday. The agenda is quite full, as the SCP will consider four important reports written by the Secretariat.
SCP/13/2: Standards and Patents
SCP/13/3: Exclusions from Patentable Subject Matter and Exceptions and Limitations to the Rights
SCP/13/4: The Client-Attorney Privilege
SCP/13/5: Dissemination of Patent Information
WIPO SCP 13, slides from KEI Side event on Patents and Standards
Submitted by James Love on 23. March 2009 - 9:11On March 23, 2009, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) organized a Briefing on Patents and Standards at WIPO’s 13th meeting of the Standing Committee on Patents (SCP). The meeting features presentations from Dr. Baisheng An, a Research Fellow at the South Centre, George Greve, President of Free Software Foundation Europoe (FSFE), Ahmed Abedel Latif, of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), and James Love, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI).
Obama trade officials promise thorough review of transparency policies
Submitted by James Love on 20. March 2009 - 9:08The following report was prepared by KEI, and reviewed by Daniel Sepulveda of USTR:
