[Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, Link, Palermo University] The responsibility that intermediaries must have regarding the behaviour of their users on the Internet has increasingly been discussed in Latin America. For States and certain…
The U.S., acting on behalf of the U.S. biologics industries, will soon be trying to convince parties to the TPP that they should adopt extended data exclusivity for biologics (at least 12 years) as part of the intellectual property chapter.…
[Excerpt from article by Amy Kapczynski in the New England Journal of Medicine] India is known as the “pharmacy of the developing world,” because it supplies much of the world’s demand for affordable, generic drugs. So when the Supreme Court…
Earlier this month, Brook Baker posted a Civil Society Statement in support of an upcoming Brazilian legislative proposal that would make greater use of TRIPS flexibilities to promote access to medicines. The legislation will be introduced in August and it…
[Burcu Kilic and Luigi Palombi] Over the past few years, patent-eligible subject matter has become one of the hotly debated areas of patent law in several countries. Even in the U.S., the Supreme Court is beginning to express concerns about…
67 legal academics have endorsed a letter to Colombian leaders to express concern over copyright legislation intended to implement the country’s obligations under their trade agreement with the U.S. The letter warns that the provisions in the legislation “restrict the…
[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] EIFL is delighted to announce a new Spanish version of Copyright for Librarians (CFL), the online open curriculum on copyright law developed jointly with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “CFL en Español” is…
Last month, PIJIP asked people to recommend examples of domestic legal provisions regarding technological protection measures (TPMs) that include good protections of users engaged in lawful uses of copyrighted content. People suggested we look at the copyright laws of India,…
As many of you may have heard, Brazil has been engaged in a long process of studying patent law reform and in August 2013 (originally scheduled for July 10, 2013) will be issuing a major report and proposed legislative reforms. …
PIJIP Research Paper no. 2013-03 Authors: Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic in Collaboration with Andrés Izquierdo and Fundación Karisma Introduction: In April 2011, Bill 201—known as “Ley Lleras 1.0”—was introduced by the Colombian legislature to implement certain provisions in the US-Colombia Free…
PIJIP Research Paper no. 2013-02 Authors: Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic in Collaboration with Andrés Izquierdo and Fundación Karisma Introduction: In January 2013, the Colombian Constitutional Court struck down on procedural grounds the controversial copyright law known as Ley Lleras 2.0, which…
On both sides of the Atlantic, brand-name drug companies have paid generics to delay entering the market. The week of June 17, 2013 will go down as potentially the most important week ever in the history of challenges to this…