KEI Voices Support for NIH Publication Mandate
On July 19th, the House of Representatives passed an appropriations bill for the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education which contained the following language:
KEI Statement on Westinghouse/Toshiba Kazatomprom Sale
FMI: James Love (202.332.2670) Today Toshiba announced (http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2007_08/pr1301.htm ) that it intends to transfer 10 percent ownership of Westinghouse's holding companies to Kazatomprom, a company owned by the government of Kazakhstan, at a price of US $540 million dollars. The… Continue Reading
WHO guide on compulsory licensing and government use: Forthcoming?
On 23 October 2006, the WHO, as an intergovernmental organization with observer status at the WTO TRIPS Council, presented a seven page report on its technical cooperation activities with respect to “Trade, Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicines”.
The full document IP/C/W/478/Add.4 can be found on the WTO document database:
http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/docs_e.htm
2007: KEI Comments on the XM/Sirius Merger
Before the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of: Applications for Consent to the Transfer of Control of Licenses XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., Transferor, to Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., Transferee MB Docket No. 07-57 To: The… Continue Reading
KazAtomProm acquisition of Westinghouse technology
Four groups, including KEI, have sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Treasury's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS"), asking that it block a proposed sale of 10 percent of Westinghouse, the US nuclear energy firm,… Continue Reading
Chile spearheads change at WIPO patent committee
In the wake of the recently concluded broadcasting negotiations at WIPO in June 2007 (Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights) where a proposed instrument for the protection of broadcasting organizations was put on cold storage but not terminated, a Chilean proposal on the examination of limitations and exceptions in the copyright area has come to the fore.
Four groups seek to block sale of Westinghouse stock and technology to Kazakhstan nuclear firm
Four groups, including KEI, have sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Treasury's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS"), asking that it block a proposed sale of 10 percent of Westinghouse, the US nuclear energy firm,… Continue Reading
Several reasons why Kazakhstan might not be a good home for Westinghouse nuclear technology
These are only a few. (For more context and information on Kazakhstan, see Background on Kazakhstan and its nuclear program.)
Kazakhstan Westinghouse coverage
Here are some recent news reports on the Westinghouse Kazakstan deal.
My recent blogs in the Huffington Post July 9, and July 13.
The July 7 AFP report on the July 7 Nikkei story is here:
The politics of group B and the WIPO Broadcasting treaty
While some of the news reports have focused on north/south disputes over limitations and exceptions to rights in the WIPO Broadcasting treaty, there is a also a growing divide between North America (US and Canada) on the one hand, and Europe and Japan, on the other, over the nature of the rights in the treaty. The EU position (followed by Japan), which is being pushed by the very non-neutral Finish chair, is for Rome+ rights, to reward investment, not creativity. Continue Reading