Public Knowledge Launches Report on Systemic Bias at the U.S. Copyright Office
Public Knowledge Press Release, Link (CC-BY-SA) Today we’re releasing our newest report, “Captured: Systemic Bias at the U.S. Copyright Office.”…
Mike Palmedo is the admin for infojustice.org, and he manages interdisciplinary research on copyright exceptions at American University College of Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. He has Masters degrees Economics and in International Affairs, and is an economics PhD candidate.
R&D Spending and Patenting in the Technology Hardware Sector in Nations With and Without Fair Use
This post uses two common indicators of innovation to see how the technology hardware sector compares in countries with and…
Rep. Schakowsky, Sens. Brown and McCain Introduce PRICED Act to Speed Generic Competition for Biologic Drugs
Jan Schakowsky and U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown and John McCain introduced H.R. 5573; the Price Relief, Innovation and Competition for…
Taylor Wessing International IP Index, Based on Surveys of IP Owners, Ranks U.S. #24 Out of 43 Countries
I’ve written before on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s International Intellectual Property Index, which ranks the strength of countries’ intellectual…
Civil Society Letter to President of Colombia, re: The Right to Issue a Compulsory License for the Cancer Medicine Imatinib
[Joint Letter Signed by 122 Experts – PDF in English and Spanish, with Signatures] Dear President Santos: We are lawyers,…
Australian Productivity Commission: Pharmaceutical Patent Extensions Cost a Quarter Billion Dollars Annually
Previous infojustice posts about the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission’s Draft Report on Intellectual Property Arrangements have focused on its recommendation…
Australian Productivity Commission (APC) Recommends Adoption of Fair Use to Restore Balance in Copyright Law
A draft report by the Australian Productivity Commission (APC) concludes that the current copyright law fails to properly balance the…
USTR Releases 2016 Special 301 Report: New Law Requires Further Engagement with Priority Watch List Countries
Last week, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released the 2016 Special 301 Report. The report satisfies the longstanding legislative requirement…
Draft Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Intellectual Property and Investment Chapters Leaked
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) has leaked draft texts of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) chapters on intellectual property and…
Candidates Clinton and Sanders on Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in the TPP and Other Trade Agreements
The Pennsylvania Fair Trade Coalition (PFTC) has released questionnaires completed by candidates Sanders and Clinton on their views on the…
After Special 301 Out of Cycle Review, Honduras Agrees to Strengthen Intellectual Property Enforcement
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has announced a “work plan” with Honduras to strengthen IP enforcement there.…
Copyright and Trademark Enforcement Provisions in Trade Enforcement and Trade Facilitation Act of 2015
Last week, President Obama signed the Trade Enforcement and Trade Facilitation Act of 2015 into law. It made news primarily…