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This blog post was co-written by Peter Maybarduk, Public Citizen’s Global Access to Medicines Program Director. It was originally published on the Public Knowledge site. This past Friday (August 17), Douglas E. Schoen published an op-ed in Politico lobbying for “strong” intellectual property (IP) protection in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The op-ed argued that […]
A joint statement by the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, the Australian Greens, and the Green Party of Canada criticizes the leaked investment and intellectual property chapters of the TPP. It also critizes the lack of transparency in the negotiations and calls on governments to open up the negotiations. Excerpts from the statement on […]
On Wednesday, the Indian Supreme Court will begin final arguments in Novartis’ challenge of Section 3(d) of the country’s patent law. In 2006, the Patent Office rejected Novartis’ patent application for the cancer drug imatinib mesylate (sold under the brand name Glivec), finding that the drug was a new salt formulation of a known drug, […]
Infojustice Roundup A Comparative Table of Brazilian Copyright Reform Draft Bills [by Pedro Mizukami] The following note explains the contents of the table attached to the blog post: The WIPO translation was used for the current law (column 1). Except in a couple of passages, the text of the WIPO translation was transposed to that […]
Anton Vickerman has become the first man in Great Briton to be sentenced to prison for owning a website that linked to content hosted elsewhere on the internet. His website, Surfthechannel, did not host infringing content, so Vickerman was not charged with infringement. Rather, he was charged with two counts of conspiracy to facilitate copyright infringement. […]
The attached table compares current Brazilian law to four proposals for copyright reform. The WIPO translation was used for the current law (column 1). Except in a couple of passages, the text of the WIPO translation was transposed to that of the new proposals every time the draft language followed the current legislation. The translations […]
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