[Cross posted on Heesob’s IP Blog] The followings were demanded by the U.S. negotiators but eventually withdrawn during the negotiation of FTA with South Korea. Patent term extension due to an approval delay: The US demanded a patent term extension…
Inside US Trade[1] and the USTR[2] have announced that the U.S. is floating new proposals on IP in its marathon Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations. Although the U.S. touts its new proposals as being balanced, as prioritizing access to medicines, and…
By Luisa Fernanda Guzmán Mejía (CC-BY) Cross posted from Digital Rights – LAC; Link After approving the Marrakesh Treaty, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will resume the Development Agenda. Now is the time for reviewing the needs of libraries and archives, but…
Click here for the original statement in Spanish. An English translation follows: The government of Mexico has engaged in secret negotiations, behind the backs of the public and elected legislators, but open to an army of transnational companies, on the…
The Competition Commission of India will investigate Ericsson for anticompetitive practices related to its Standard Essential Patents on smartphone technology. The competition complaint arose as part of a dispute between Ericsson and the Indian consumer electronics company Micromax. According to…
[Stephen Kinsella, Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, Link (CC-BY)] Patents are often used as indicators for economic and innovative progress.1 The assumption is that many patents represent innovation, and also that many innovations are patented. Patent records thus…