A new (Spanish language) news story contains a quote by a higher level government official to the effect that Chile may pull out of the TPP negotiations if the U.S. does not significantly moderate its intellectual property demands. This follows…
Yesterday, we sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk, signed by over 30 legal scholars, criticizing the decision to cancel full day stakeholder presentations for the current round of negotiations being held in Dallas, Texas, and calling on…
Over 30 legal academics from current or potential future Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiating countries wrote to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today. The letter, the text of which is posted below, criticizes the USTR decision to cancel full…
This overview of copyright flexibilities in Israel consists of two parts. First, answers to a questionnaire on the state of copyright law, copyright flexibilities, and the current political context of copyright, which were provided by Michael Birnhack and Niva Elkin-Koren.…
Next week, the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade will vote on its draft legal opinion on ACTA. The legal opinion states that the “Commission has ensured that ACTA provisions comply with the Union acquis and that nothing in ACTA…
Written remarks of Sean Flynn, American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property Press briefing on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiation, May 2, 2012, 2pm EST. Hosted by Public Knowledge. I was asked to provide…
Beginning with the 2009 report, the USTR began hosting a public hearing and making small efforts to improve public participation in the Special 301 adjudication process. But, as in the past, the 2012 report shows that USTR largely ignores the…
(with research by Marcela Palacio Puerta) The latest example of a rushed copyright reform process to implement an unbalanced law while stifling public debate occurred in Colombia last week. Over a scant 18 days (including a break for holy week)…
At a PIJIP-hosted seminar on intellectual property and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) last week, present and former Chilean trade officials questioned whether joining the TPP would be worth its costs if it included additional demands on intellectual property.
The enclosed draft chart compares the IP enforcement provisions of the US TPP proposal with TRIPS and ACTA. It is a work in progress and does not contain every section yet. This document is being shared with negotiators at the…
This morning a group of nearly 70 international intellectual property academics and experts wrote to the Colombian legislature “in response to what we perceive as a hurried process to implement the provisions of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement through amendments…
U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson criticized India’s recent compulsory license for the anticancer drug Nexaver in a meeting with Indian Minister of Commerce Anand Sharma. A government official told the Economic Times that “Bryson said pharmaceuticals was a competitive area…