Proposal from Senegal and Congo to include the Resale Right (droit de suite) in the Agenda of Future work by the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organization KEI supports further work on the… Continue Reading
On Thursday, 31 May 2018, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) made two recommendations in relation to WIPO’s draft action plan on educational and research institutions and persons with other disabilities. KEI proposed that the regional seminars for educational and research institutions… Continue Reading
The revised Chair’s text (SCCR/36/6) is very responsive to the broadcasters, and mostly hostile to the civil society groups’ positions, on issues such as term and exceptions, and extending the right to materials delivered over the Internet. One bright spot… Continue Reading
First: Deferred transmission. What is a deferred transmission? Here are the definitions in Daren Tang’s (the Chair of the SCCR) text of the treaty. Available here: http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_35/sccr_35_12.pdf: (f) “near simultaneous transmission” means a transmission for the reception by the public… Continue Reading
On May 28, 2018, at the opening of a five day to talks at the 36th WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR), 11 civil society and library groups sent a letter to negotiators expressing deep concerns over… Continue Reading
On 14 February 2018 and 16 February 2018, the World Trade Organization (WTO) conducted a Trade Policy Review (TPR) of Malaysia. All members of the WTO are subject to review under the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM). The TPRM takes… Continue Reading
On March 12, 2018, the European Commission issued a press release on a report on the “protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in third countries”. The report was published on February 21, 2018 and is entitled – “Commission Staff… Continue Reading
On March 8, 2018, USTR and the interagency committee on the Special 301 held a hearing. KEI was one of the groups testifying. More on this process here: https://keionline.org/ustr/special301 I began our oral testimony discussing President Trump’s promise, during the… Continue Reading
Cases 2017 Kaneka Corp. v. SKC Kolon PI, Inc., No. EDCV113397JGBRZX, 2017 WL 6343537 (C.D. Cal. Dec 8, 2017). Infringement case involving patents for polyimide films; motion for permanent injunction denied. Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, 872 F.3d 1367 (Fed. Cir.… Continue Reading
KEI page on the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Trade Policy Reviews All members of the WTO are subject to review under the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM). The TPRM takes place in the “Trade Policy Review Body which is actually… Continue Reading