On August 10, USTR staff met civil society actors to discuss the intellectual property and pharmaceutical provisions in the Trans Pacific Partnership. USTR was represented by Probit Mehta, Stan McCoy and Jared Raglad, and the civil society actors were James…
A federal judge has denied the Spanish company Peurto 80’s motion to release the domains rojadirectica.com and rojadirectica.org, seized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement through Operation In Our Sites. The seized websites included links to third party websites which…
An interagency Working Group headed by the Office IP Enforcement Coordinator and including staff from the Office of Management and Budget, Department of Defense, NASA, and the General Services Administration has been formed to “eliminate counterfeit products from the U.S.…
IP Enforcement Roundup British Government Announces “Sweeping Reforms” of IP Law The UK plans to modernize intellectual property law by implementing the recommendations in the May 2010 Hargreaves report. It announcement highlighted reforms including exceptions to copyright for private copying,…
Copyright owners have greatly increased the number of lawsuits for filesharing in the U.S., and have sued 201,828 John Does since the beginning of 2010. TorrentFreak has published data on the cases, and describes them as part of a “pay-up-or-else…
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) has posted a letter sent July 18 by the European Parliament Committee on International Trade to the Parliament Legal Service which asks a series of questions on ACTA – What is its…
In a letter to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, ten members of Congress have asked for a meeting to discuss “the approach your office is considering for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement negotiations that would undermine public health and access…
Aaron Swartz, the founder of the nonprofit Demand Progress and a fellow at Harvard University’s Safra Centre for Ethics, was arrested last month for downloading 4.8 million JSTOR articles from a server at MIT. If convicted, he faces up to…
The UK plans to modernize intellectual property law by implementing the recommendations in the May 2010 Hargreaves report. It announcement highlighted reforms including exceptions to copyright for private copying, parody, and text and data mining by researchers, as well as…
UK Business Secretary Vince Cable is expected to announce legislation to change British copyright law tomorrow. Press reports in the Financial Times and the Guardian indicate that the news legislation adopt some of the recommendations of the Hargreaves Report, including…
IP ENFORCEMENT ROUNDUP India and EU Announce Agreement on Dispute Over Seizures of Drugs in Transit India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced an agreement with the EU to settle their dispute over the seizure of Indian generic drugs…
The Motion Picture Association of America has announced eleven different letters in support of the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (S.968 – the ‘PROTECT-IP Act). The legislation allow the Justice Department to…