Inside U.S. Trade reports that the US government urged Chile “to strengthen the system by which patent owners can challenge the approval of allegedly infringing generic pharmaceuticals to be sold in that market, and its protection of test data used…
A 2008 cable from the US Embassy in Helsinki to Washington describes the efforts of the U.S. Ambassador and his staff to prevent a change to the Finnish reference pricing scheme for medicines. At issue was a provision in Section…
On May 27, the International Anti-Piracy Caucus published its 2011 Country Watch List, identifying Canada, China, Russia, Spain and Ukraine as countries “that continue to lag in efforts to combat piracy.” The caucus was formed in 2003 and is currently…
On Monday Amy 2, USTR published the 2011 Special 301 Report, available here. After examining 77 countries, it included 12 on the Priority Watch List, 28 on the Watch list, and under “Section 306 monitoring.” Most of the countries in…
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has just released it’s annual “Special 301 Report”. The report has been instrument for political pressure from USA regarding their ideal enforcement measures for protection of intellectual property rights (IPR). The…
The U.S. Trade Representative’s 2011 Special 301 Report was released yesterday afternoon at about 4pm. (James Love from Knowledge Ecology International has an excellent blog on it here.) Overall, this year’s Special 301 Report shows relatively little effort to respond…
2011 Special 301 Report
Objective of the consultation The European Commission is launching a public hearing on the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in third countries.The results of this public hearing will be taken into account by the Directorate General for…
USTR – Special 301 Post-Hearing Submission Docket: ustr-2010-0037 PDF Version of Submission Thank you to the subcommittee for allowing this opportunity to submit post-hearing comments for the 2011 Special 301 Report. First, I would like to follow up on the…
On March 2, the interagency Special 301 Subcommittee held a hearing to solicit input for this year’s report. Assistant USTR for Intellectual Property Stan McCoy opened the hearing, saying that it is the subcommittee’s job to make recommendations for what…
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,…
Yesterday, filings were submitted in a notice and comment process for the USTR’s “Special 301” program, which is a process through which the USTR unilaterally threatens sanctions on foreign countries for failing to adhere to U.S. demands on domestic intellectual…