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Last Thursday the Energy and Commerce committee of the U.S. House of Representatives held a hearing entitled, “A Tangle of Trade Barriers: How India’s Industrial Policy is Hurting US Companies.” The hearing is part of a recent big business push which aims to support specific industry complaints against India by lumping them together, in order […]
The Malaysian Ministry of International Trade and Industry has published a brief outlining how it views the current state of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. It believes that 14 of the 29 chapters of the agreement, It considers the negotiation of 14 of the 29 chapters to be “substantially closed.” On the other hand, […]
Today a Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing on the topic: “A Tangle of Trade Barriers: How India’s Industrial Policy is Hurting U.S. Companies.” Much of the hearing focused on intellectual property and pharmaceuticals, though other issues such as SOEs and subsides to local solar power […]
[Published in SUNS #7614 dated 27 June 2013] Marrakesh, 26 Jun (K. M. Gopakumar) — Major breakthrough negotiations on an International Treaty for Visually Impaired Persons/Persons with Print Disability concluded late night on 25 June. The Treaty creates a legal obligation on the part of the Contracting Party to provide an exception or limitation in […]
Yesterday it was announced that negotiators had reached “miracle” conclusion for a new international treaty for the visually impaired. This agreement was reached under conditions of unprecedented (although not always perfect) transparency and public participation. And according to initial stakeholder opinions voiced from across the spectrum – the end outcome is nearly universally considered to be […]
[Caterine Saez, IP Watch (CC-BY-SA)] Marrakesh, Morocco – The mood was one of celebration at the Marrakesh Palais des Congrès to greet the success of World Intellectual Property Organization negotiators in their attempt to produce a draft treaty text showing consensus. After a difficult start to the week, delegates achieved success and the corridors of […]
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