IP Enforcement Roundup Senator Leahy Introduces the PROTECT-IP Act Sen. Leahy introduced the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property (PROTECT-IP) Act on May 12, designed to combat websites “dedicated to infringing activities.” The legislation…
The World Health Assembly opens today, bringing together all of the WHO member countries for their annual meeting. The agenda includes a session on WHO’s work concerning substandard medical products, including “information and awareness creation,” “norms and standards” and “technical…
The EC Directorate General for Trade is reviewing its Strategy for the Enforcement of Intellectual Property rights in Third Countries, and it plans to update its current policy with “the adoption of a new Commission Communication by the end of…
Senator Leahy introduced the PROTECT-IP Act (S. 968) on May 12, designed to combat websites “dedicated to infringing activities.” The legislation is cosponsored by Sens. Schumer, Feinstein, Whitehouse, Graham, Kohl Coons, and Blumenthal. According to the official summary, the legislation…
Sen. Klobuchar has introduced legislation that would make illegal streaming of copyrighted materials a felony. This was one of the legislative recommendations made in the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator’s report to Congress in February. The legislation has not yet been…