For immediate release. By Sean Flynn, sflynn@wcl.american.edu Lima, Peru. Among the US Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) proposals leaked today was a proposed chapter on “Transparency and Procedural Fairness for Healthcare Technologies,” more widely known as the Pharmaceutical Pricing Chapter. All…
Statement and FAQ on ACTA and the Constitution Sean M Fiil Flynn Associate Director Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) American University Washington College of Law (202) 274-4157; Cell 202-294-5749 October 12, 2011 Today, Senator Wyden released a…
American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property is seeking contributions to the online PIJIP Working Paper Series and for a Focus Issue of the American University International Law Review. The theme of the joint…
In the fact sheet from USTR on ACTA, which appears to be the document that was being floated to cleared advisors as the “signing statement,” USTR points to four agreements (in addition to GATT) that justify its entry into ACTA…
Next week, PIJIP Fellows Bijan Madhani and Michael Vasquez and I will be releasing our study for the EU parliament on the impact of ACTA on access to medicines in developing countries. A draft of the paper was released last…
When the US signs ACTA tomorrow in Japan, the signing statement is likely to state something like “ACTA is entirely consistent with US law and therefore requires no implementing legislation.” This will be a defense of Obama’s new assertion of…
ACTA to Be Signed – But Can it Enter into Force? It has been reported in global press this week that ACTA will be signed October 1 in Japan. But that does not mean that ACTA actually goes into…
It has been reported in the global press this week that ACTA will be signed October 1 in Japan. But that does not mean that ACTA actually goes into effect. ACTA Article 40 states that the “Agreement shall enter into…
Here is some of what we learned at the TPP negotiation in Chicago this week. Transparency will be worse than ACTA. In response to the repeated calls in civil society and academic presentations for TPP negotiators to increase transparency in…
With the U.S. round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) underway in Chicago, intellectual property and information policy experts from around the world have released a Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest that challenges the dominant direction…
SAVE THE DATE: August 25-27, 2011 American University Washington College of Law 4801 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC, 20016 Please mark your calendars and plan to participate in one of the most important meetings on international intellectual property law of…
For immediate release. Attribute to Sean Flynn, Associate Director, American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, on the decision of the Supreme Court in IMS v. Sorrell: For the first time in the Court’s…