Knowledge Ecology International

The USPTO’s green paper on “Copyright Policy, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Economy” surveys current copyright law and notes that there are several areas where reform may be welcome. In many of these areas, the USPTO green paper demonstrates an openness to discussion on these issues or support existing efforts and proposals. Despite this support in some areas for reform and despite the USPTO’s involvement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiating process, there are several areas where the United States’ position in the TPP could hinder such reform. Continue Reading →

On November 13, 2013, Wikileaks obtained and published a copy of the consolidated IP negotiating chapter for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). This leak has allowed the public to learn what is in the text, including about the reported five country counterproposal to the United States’ proposal on pharmaceuticals and medicines.

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The October 25, 2012 NIH March-In Request for ritonavir is now more than one year old, and the NIH has not decided to grant a hearing or reject the petition.

More information about the March-In request is available here:

https://www.keionline.org/2012ritonavir

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KEI has asked 21 persons following the TPP IPR negotiations, what they thought of four of the USTR negotiators, including:

• Ambassador and USTR head Michael Froman,
• TPP Chief negotiator Barbara Weisel
• Assistant USTR for Intellectual Property and Innovation Stanford McCoy, and
• Deputy Assistant USTR for Intellectual Property and Innovation Probir Mehta.

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At the request of the European Union, Jamaica, Mexico and the United States of America, the topic of “Intellectual Property and Sports” was placed for discussion at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) October 2013 session of the Council for TRIPS (TRIPS Council).

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