Yesterday the Broadband Breakfast Club hosted a panel discussion titled “The Costs of Global Intellectual Property Piracy: How Can the Phenomenon Be Empirically Quanitified?” The event featured speakers who have conducted studies for GAO and the IIPI, two representatives from…
On Wednesday, the interagency committee headed by USTR that writes the Special 301 Report will hold a public hearing for stakeholders to provide input. The list of speakers includes four country representatives, four right holder groups/firms, ten civil society groups,…
On February 16, 2011 at 10am the full Senate Judiciary will hold a hearing on efforts to shut down websites where IP-infringing content is hosted. The witnesses will include representatives from Rosetta Stone, the Authors Guild, GoDaddy!, Verizon, and Visa. …
IP owners, government enforcement agencies, and WIPO met in Paris last week for the Sixth Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy. Three themes that were repeated throughout the meeting were 1) the need to convince the public to have a…
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE PRESS RELEASE: House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) today announced that the Committee on Ways and Means will hold a hearing on the status of President Barack Obama’s trade policy agenda. The hearing…
The last panel of the day at the Global Conference Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy was titled “The power of education and awareness in building respect for IP.” It was moderated by John Tarpey, Director of WIPO’s Communications Division. He said…
The first afternoon panel at the Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy was moderated by Simon Crompton, editor of the British publication Managing IP. He opened by noting that ACTA has been criticized both for having been negotiated in a…
After an opening plenary that restated the themes of the meeting, the second day of the Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy broke into panels, one of which was “Financing effective enforcement – innovative approaches.” It was chaired by Trevor…
In the late afternoon at the first day of the Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, a Boardroom Dialogue Session was held on “IP enforcement and sustainable development – perspectives and challenges.” Johannes Christian Wichard, Deputy Director General of WIPO’s…
The afternoon at the Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy included two sets of Boardroom Dialogue Discussions. In the first set, one was “Competition law and building respect for IP.” It was moderated by Josef Drexl, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut…
After the opening plenary of the Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, the conference split into two simultaneous Boardroom Dialogue Sessions, including one on “Determining the Impact – the Importance of Measuring the Scope and Impact of Infringement.” It was…
John Morten, Director of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the US opened the afternoon plenary of the Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, saying that IP enforcement is a high priority for Obama administration, with the Attorney General and…