Internet Governance Forum
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was a product of the WSIS-Tunis Agenda and was given a fairly open-ended and ambiguous mandate. Continue Reading
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KEI Brownbag on Bilski case: Scope of Patentable Subject Matter
Date: September 10, 2009
On September 10, 2009 KEI hosted a brownbag lunch to discuss the scope of patentable subject matter, focusing specifically on the implications for life-science patents of the Supreme Court’s forthcoming review of the Bilski Federal Circuit opinion. This is the first time since 1981 that the US Supreme Court will address the limits of patentable subject matter.
The key U.S. statue on this issue is Section 101 of the patent law:
35 USC 101. Inventions patentable
Proposal for Treaty of Access to Knowledge (May 10, 2005 Draft)
The following is the text that was prepared in 2005 as a
possible basis for a treaty on Access to Knowledge. The text
was prepared in response to an August 2004 proposal by Argentina
and Brazil for a WIPO Development Agenda, that included in its
original proposal, a possible treaty on access to knowledge. The
process that created this specific draft text included three
elements.
Experts comment on Senate bill that replaces monopolies for medicines with system of prizes
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Expert comments on Medical Innovation Prize Fund
Written by James Love
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
The following are comments by experts on innovation and public health, beginning with consumer and public health groups, followed by academic experts and others.
Survey of Patent Pools Demonstrates Variety of Purposes and Management Structures
Tuesday, 05 June 2007
An pdf version of this document is available here.
KEI Research Note 2007:6
David Serafino[1]
Knowledge Ecology International
4 June 2007
Table of Contents
KEI RN 2007:2 Recent examples of compulsory licensing of patents
KEI Research Note 2007:2 [1]
(A PDF version of this is available here.)
Recent examples of the use of compulsory
licenses on patents[1]
KEI Research Note 2007:2
KEI Board of Directors
TACD issues resolution on IPR enforcement
On June 18, 2009, The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) issued a 2,000 word resolution on the enforcement of copyright, trademarks, patents and other intellectual property rights. The resolution is on the TACD web page here. A press release from the TACD IP-Working Group, with comments from several TACD members, is available on the web here.
Notes from the protest: People vs Authors Guild on Kindle 2 text to speech
The following is my report from the April 7, 2009 Reading Rights Coalition demonstration in front of the NYC offices of the Authors Guild, regarding text to speech for Kindle 2.