The Brazilian Center for Strategic Studies and Debates has just released the English version of its major report – Brazil’s Patent Reform: Innovation Towards National Competitiveness. This 363-page report comprehensively addresses the need for patent law reform in Brazil. The…
[Reposted from Afro-IP, Link (CC-BY)] A number of commentaries have been published on the Draft IP Policy’s suggested patent reforms (see below for links to some of these). In general, the draft policy has been lauded as a welcome step…
Author: Rebecca Giblin, Monash University Abstract: It has been more than three years since the first countries began implementing ‘graduated responses’, requiring ISPs to take a range of measures to police their users’ copyright infringements. Graduated responses now exist in…
Comment submitted to the Department of the Interior by Profs. Mary L. Lyndon and David S. Levine We, the undersigned law professors who teach and write about intellectual property and trade secrets, write in opposition to the proposed Bureau of…
[Reposted NROER, Link, (CC-BY-SA)] The National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) is a collaborative platform, involving each and every one of us interested in children, teachers and education. The Repository will endeavour to bring together all digital and digitisable…
I write to share news about a set of articles that critically evaluate the recent Supreme Court of India’s decision on the patentability of Glivec – the Novartis anti-cancer drug. The ruling that finds Glivec foul of the standards under…
[Joint Press Release] The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today delivered a memorandum to the Department of Trade and Industry (dti) at the National Workshop on Intellectual Property and Public Health in Pretoria, outlining needed reforms…
Press Release. For further information, please contact: Kalyani Menon-Sen +91-9910306382 Leena Menghaney +91-9811365412 The Campaign for Affordable Trastuzumab welcomes the decision of the Patent Controller, Kolkata,[1] to dismiss the divisional applications for patents on Trastuzumab (Herceptin), the life-saving breast cancer…
//Marco Bellezza, Associate at Portolano Cavallo Law Firm and AnOx 2013 participant, analyzes Italy’s newly released draft regulation on online copyright. [Reposted from the Upenn Center for Global Communication Studies, Link (CC-BY-NC-ND)] Thursday, July 25th, the Italian Communication Authority (“AGCOM”) issued a…
The Fair Use Doctrine in the United States — A Response to the Kernochan Report, by Gwen Hinze, Peter Jaszi & Matthew Sag, July 26, 2013. [Reposted from matthewsag.com] Our submission provides a brief overview of the U.S. experience of the…
The government of Antigua and Barbuda is moving forward with plans “to suspend certain concessions and other obligations relating to United States intellectual property rights” in retaliation for the US’s violation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) General Agreement on…
[Cross-posted with permission from the DisCo Blog, (Link)] This morning, the new USTR Michael Froman testified before the House Committee on Ways and Means about a variety of trade policy issues, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). In response to a…