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[Michael Carrier] Abstract: Manufacturers have made it difficult for consumers to repair their products. And they have justified their restrictions in large part by claiming the need to protect their intellectual property (IP). This essay explains how justifications based on IP--in particular, copyrights, design patents, trademarks, and trade secrets--are not persuasive.
[PIJIP] A coalition of academic and civil society organizations are co-organizing a week of debates on copyright and access to knowledge in South Africa, beginning on January 23rd. The organizers for these events are American University's PIJIP, the University of Pretoria's Future Africa, the University of Cape Town IP Unit, the Strathmore University Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law,
[South Centre] Developing countries should consider options that can be implemented now to deal with IP barriers to expand production and access to COVID-19 therapeutics and diagnostics, while the so far elusive decision on whether to extend a TRIPS waiver to cover these products is taken by WTO.
[Lukas Ruthes Gonçalves] Abstract: Mechanical licenses are a scheme used in the music industry to not only allow publishers and songwriters to be compensated for their work, but also to allow this important cultural product to be better distributed in society and not get lost in time. Video games have accrued great importance culturally, but are at an increasingly greater
[David S. Levine and Joshua D. Sarnoff] Abstract: The unprecedented COVID-19 virus has brought to the forefront many challenges associated with exclusive rights in information, data, and know-how, all of which may constitute protected trade secrets. While patents have received more attention, trade secret information has limited the ability to perform research, develop, test, gain regulatory approval for, manufacture, and
[Mike Palmedo] U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai has requested that the International Trade Commission conduct a study on the market dynamics of COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics. She is requesting a wide variety of subtopics be included in the report, including "The relationship between patent protection and innovation in the health sector and between patent protection and access to medicine in
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