Stakeholder registering for the Dallas round of TPP negotiators have been informed that the conference style presentation format supported at all previous rounds has been disbanded and in place stakeholders will be given options of setting up “tables” to pass…
Please find below a sign-on letter for intellectual property academics and experts to Colombian legislative leaders regarding the recently released bill to amend Colombia’s law to implement the US-Colombia FTA. The core message of this letter is to alert officials…
by Geraldine Jaurez Yesterday there was a meeting of the NAFTA group, which put out this joint statement. Excerpt on ACTA: As leading sources of innovation and creativity, our three countries are committed to the protection and enforcement of intellectual…
Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IP Czar) Victoria Espinel has published the 2011 Annual Report on Intellectual Property Enforcement. The report describes enforcement activities by the Departments of Commerce, Homeland Security, Justice, State, and Health and Human Services, as well as…
The Colombian draft bill for the implementation of the Colombia-US Free Trade Agreement obligations is creating strong reaction from Colombian society. Not only copyrights scholars oppose to this draft; the group Anonymous Colombia has unplugged the official website of the…
On March 27, the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee (INTA) voted 21-5 to reject a request by MEP David Martin to refer the Anticounterfeiting Trade Agreement to the European Court of Justice. Martin wanted the Court to determine whether or…
As the TPP heads for its next intersessional meeting on IP provisions in April, public concern about the agreement has been growing, often tied to the previous public outcry over SOPA/PIPA and ACTA. The enforcement provisions in the IP section…
Carolina Botero has called attention to the Colombian process of implementing the copyright provisions of the US-FTA. The draft legislation made for implementing these provisions is in a high-speed race. It was presented to the Congress in March 21 and…
Today, the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs held a debate on ACTA [Webcast]. Tomorrow, the debate will move to the Committee on International Trade [Webcast]. In advance, civil society groups have issued the following statements…
Yesterday, the Colombian Executive introduced a draft law it says is required to implement its obligations under the Colombia-US Free Trade Agreement. The Congress has been called upon to do the necessary paperwork in three weeks to have the law…
The occasion of Senator’s Wyden’s proposed amendments halting the US ratification of ACTA without express (ex post) congressional approval provides a fine time to analyze the legal justification the administration has offered thus far for entering ACTA without congressional approval.…
Wyden has proposed two amendments relating to intellectual property and trade policy to the Jumpstarting Our Business Sector Act (JOBS Act). The first is a reaction to the Obama Administration’s assertion that it can bind the United States to ACTA…