The EU Green Party has released two draft reports on ACTA, which are open for comments from the public for 30 days. Comments can be submitted online for each report: ACTA and Fundamental Rights | ACTA and Access to Medicines…
Earlier this month, seven members of Congress wrote President Obama to “strongly recommend that the United States refrain from negotiating any provisions related to exclusivity for biosimilar medicines” in the Trans Pacific Partnership. The letter from Reps. Waxman, McDermott, Stark,…
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…
by Matthew C. Porterfield & Christopher R. Byrnes Originally published on July 12, 2011 in the Investment Treaty News, a newsletter of the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Matthew C. Porterfield is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the…
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…
IP ENFORCEMENT ROUNDUP European Parliament DG for External Policies Policy Department Report Recommends Against “Unconditional Consent” for ACTA The EU Directorate General for External Policies has issued a report on ACTA in advance of this fall’s debate over ratification. Its…
Last year, EC customs border seized 79,112 shipments with a total retail value of €1.1 billion. The number of cases was nearly double that of last year (43,572). The shipments seized were smaller in volume, and the number of ‘articles’…
On July 11, 2011, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) presented the results of a study (prepared by Capital Trade, Inc.) on the value of fair use in the U.S. economy. The study—which was conducted using a methodology developed…
The following blog was written by Geraldine Jaurez, and posted to TechDirt: Last Tuesday, the Second Standing Commission of the Mexican Congress unanimously approved a resolution promoted by Senator Francisco Castellon P(artido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD) exhorting the Executive…
Recent free trade agreements with Korea and Australia have included provisions regulating pharmaceutical reimbursement programs operated at the “central level of government” of member countries. Currently, the U.S. is in negotiations to complete the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, which…
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…
Geraldine Juarez in Mexico, geraldine@hipertextual.com, reports that the Mexican Congress has approved a resolution asking the president to not sign ACTA. She reports that, in a public hearing after the voting with citizens, senators from the presidential party PAN assured…