Today USTR was pointing to four documents to explain the U.S. decision to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. While it was not surprising that the United States signed the agreement, KEI was disappointed that the statements did not address the issue of the inconsistencies between US law and the ACTA, or make any commitments that the ACTA Committee would operate in an open, transparent and inclusive manner.
These are the USTR documents:
These were copied from David Hammerstein’s twitter feed, October 3, 2010.
http://twitter.com/#!/dahammerstein
Two areas where ACTA is inconsistent with US law, injunctions and damages
KEI Policy Brief, 2011:2
30 September 2011, revised 3 October 2011
James Love and Krista Cox
As the U.S. is reportedly about to sign ACTA, we wanted to point out two important areas where ACTA is not consistent with U.S. law. These are the sections of ACTA dealing with injunctions and damages. Below we have included the text from ACTA and the WTO TRIPS agreement on these two topics.
This was read today, September 30, 2011, at the WIPO GA
Agenda Item 33 (iii), the Advisory Committee on Enforcement
This was read today, September 30, 2011, at the WIPO GA
Agenda Item 33(i) Standing Committee on the Law of Patents
KEI agrees with the perceptive and constructive comments offered by South Africa on behalf of the Africa Group, and India, on behalf of the Development Agenda Group (DAG).
On Thursday, 29 September 2011, Ecuador made the following intervention at the WIPO General Assembly (GA) during the consideration of a Report on the Work of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) which called for the WIPO GA to convene a diplomatic conference in 2012 on a treaty on copyright exceptions for persons with reading disabilities provided that SCCR23 reached agreement on a negotiating text for the TVI.
Gracias señor Presidente.KEI general statement to 49th WIPO General Assemblies on the SCCR + Semi-live blogging of SCCR discussions
This is the statement delivered by KEI at WIPO’s consideration of the Report on the Work of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR). There was no decision point on agenda item 29 which took note of the Report of the SCCR.
Statement of Asian Group at WIPO General Assembly 2011: L&Es, AV treaty and broadcasting
On Thursday, 29 September 2011, Pakistan made the following intervention on behalf of the Asian Group during WIPO’s discussion of the Report of the Standing Committee on Copyright and related Rights. On the matter of exceptions and limitations, the Asian Group stated:
Senators Harkin and Sanders send Letter to USPTO Supporting the Treaty on Copyright Exceptions for Blind and Visually Impaired
Today, on the eve of discussions on the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) at the WIPO General Assembly, Senators Harkin (D-IA) and Sanders (I-VT) submitted a letter to Director David Kappos of the US Patent and Trademark Office. This letter recommended USPTO’s support for the timely consideration of a treaty for the benefit of persons who are visually impaired or have other disabilities. Continue Reading
General Statement of Brazil at WIPO General Assembly 2011
Brazil’s general statement to the WIPO General Assembly in 2011 was delivered on Monday, 26 September 2011 by HE Roberto Azevedo, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the WTO and other Economic Organizations in Geneva. With respect to a disabilities treaty, Brazil stated,