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Salon has an article today with this title: The seduction of Howard Dean, by Justin Elliot.

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As KEI has discussed previously, USTR’s proposal for the IP chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) raises numerous concerns for human rights, access to medicines, and access to information, among other issues. Continue Reading →

As reported by Groklaw, SCO has lost an appeal, at the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a dispute with Novell “over copyright ownership of early versions of the UNIX operating system and the scope of Novell’s rights in licenses issued to its former customers prior to its partial sale of UNIX to SCO.” According to Groklaw, this is likely to be the end of the litigation with Novell over SCO’s claims to ownership of code used in Linux. (The IBM case is still outstanding, it seems).

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Two cables recently disclosed by Wikileaks illustrate the degree to which the Obama Administration was monitoring the EU review of the Oracle acquisition of Sun, and leaning on the European Union to permit Oracle to acquire MySQL and other “open source” assets controlled by Sun.

Both cables were signed by Ambassador Christopher W. Murray, who served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires at the United States Mission to the European Union, in Brussels, Belgium, from 2007 to 2010.

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http://wikileaks.org/cable/2005/11/05GENEVA2798.html

Cable subject: Wto Trips Council October 25-26 2005
Cable written Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:17 UTC

TRANSITION PERIOD FOR LEAST-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES-REQUEST FOR EXTENSION

39. Zambian Ambassador introduced LDC proposal to extend transitional period for TRIPS Compliance by An additional 15 years. He stressed points concerning that resource and economic difficulties LDCs face and the costs of implementing TRIPS obligations. Tanzania, Uganda, Cambodia, Senegal, Lesotho all supported Zambia’s statement.

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Among the cables recently published by Wilileaks is one written on November 24, 2009, detailing negotiations between USTR and Anand Sharma, the Cabinet Minister for Commerce and Industry of the Government of India. The complete cable is available here: http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/11/09NEWDELHI2375.html

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August 28, 2011
From KEI staff review of Wikileaks cables (/wikileaks)

Among the many new cables released by Wikileaks is this gem, a detailed account of the U.S. government pressure on the Guatemala legislature to shape legislation on pharmaceutical test data IPR.

http://wikileaks.org/cable/2005/03/05GUATEMALA659.html

C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 05 GUATEMALA 000659

SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/11/2010

TAGS: ETRD KIPR PGOV PREL GT

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Posted August 27, 2011

These are some tools for searching the US Department of State cables released by Wikileaks.

A Wikileaks page on the cables is available here: http://wlcentral.org/cablegate

KEI recommends this site for searching the cables by key words:

http://cablegatesearch.net/search.php

You might also want to try:

• http://cabledrum.net

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As part of the American University hosted Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the public Interest, I participated in a panel on the positive agenda for intellectual property. These are notes from my talk.

Presentation by Manon Anne Ress, Knowledge Ecology International
August 26, 2011, at American University in Washington, DC

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