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Firms in the copyright-intensive industries frequently complain that copyright infringement causes significant lost sales, lost revenues, lost profits, and lost jobs. However, as has been noted in numerous impartial studies, the actual impact of infringement on individual firms, on industry sectors, and on the U.S. economy as a whole, is extremely difficult to quantify. In […]
[Ahmed Abdel Latif and Pedro Roffe, ICTSD; IP-Watch (CC-BY-NC-ND)] To what extent can global intellectual property rules address in an effective manner the needs of the most vulnerable members of society? This is the key question facing member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as they prepare to meet next week for a […]
How can the federal agency created to protect U.S. manufacturers from foreign knock-offs now block sales by America’s largest tech company? Because it can. The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), a once-sleepy tribunal that, until recently, devoted its time to stopping imports of counterfeit handbags and pirated DVDs, has gone rogue. The purpose of the […]
On Monday June 17, a diplomatic conference will be held to negotiate a treaty/international instrument that would allow accessible-format works to be exported from country to country. Intended to address the problem that currently only 5% of copyright works are currently available in accessible format. Copyright law in many countries currently prohibits the export of copyright works, […]
The U.S. Supreme Court just issued a momentous decision, invalidating as not “patent eligible subject matter” patent claims to own “isolated DNA” molecules that have not been modified from natural genetic sequences by removing the non-coding DNA regions. The Court’s decision also suggests that isolated natural proteins and compounds that can be used as pharmaceuticals […]
Peruvian Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism José Silva Martinot – asked about intellectual property (IP) provisions proposed by the United States in the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations – said on television that Peru will not accept terms that exceed those in its existing bilateral trade agreement with the U.S. The minister said “We as […]
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