The following are excerpts from 42 USC 17231, enacted as part of the United States Energy Storage Competitiveness Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110–140, DEC. 19, 2007) as part of a larger program of federal subsidies in the field of energy, the Congress has created a system of compulsory licenses of patents, designed specifically to:
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The Permanent Representative of Brazil, Roberto Azevedo, delivered the following statement to the 48th session of the WIPO General Assembly. The intervention was delivered in Portuguese; below is the English translation.
SEPTEMBER 2010
Statement Delivered by the Permanent Representative of Brazil, Ambassador Roberto Azevedo
Mr. Chairman,
Let me start by congratulating you on the excellent job you have been doing in conducting the work of WIPO’s General Assembly.
Civil law injunctions and damages for infringement are national security hot spots 4% (10 votes) ACTA negotiators don’t want people asking informed questions about the substance of the agreement 69% (191 votes) No one in the Administration cares enough about… Continue Reading
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In looking at the scope issues, it might be helpful to examine the 18 places where the August 25, 2010 version of the ACTA text uses the term, “at least.”
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The U.S. Department of Commerce has been given a high profile role in intellectual property policies in the Obama Administration. The Department is headed by Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke. Locke is the best known as the former two term governor of the State of Washington. After leaving the government, he has also been a lawyer and consultant, including to Microsoft. Here are a few data points on that relationship.
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WIPO Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain (released May 2010)In May 2010 the WIPO Secretariat published a paper entitled “WIPO Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain” prepared by Professor Séverine Dusollier (Professor, University of Namur, Belgium). This study was produced as an output of the WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property’s (CDIP) thematic project on intellectual property and the public domain which is predicated upon Recommendations 16 and 20 of the Development Agenda. Part 1: Notes on the August 25, 2010 version of the ACTA consolidated textKEI has obtained a copy of the August 25, 2010 version of the ACTA consolidated negotiating text. This is Part 1 of our initial notes on the document. (Part 2 is available here.) (revised September 9, 2010) PreambleThe preamble in the August, 25, 2010 text includes 10 paragraphs, of which only 3 do not have brackets. EB101.R24: 1998 WHO EB proposal for the WHO Revised drug strategy101st Session Revised drug strategyThe Executive Board RECOMMENDS to the Fifty-first World Health Assembly the adoption of the following resolution: The Fifty-first World Health Assembly, Recalling resolutions WHA39.27, WHA41.16, WHA43.20, WHA45.27, WHA47.12, WHA47.13, WHA47.16, WHA47.17, and WHA49.14; Having considered the report of the Director-General on the revised drug strategy[1]; |