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The WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) concluded its 24th session last week. Activists supporting the treaty for limitations and exceptions for visually impaired persons were disappointed with moves by the US and EU delegations to block the treaty, which is still highly bracketed. The text will now be further discussed in […]
This blog is a summary of a July 25 satellite event at the XIX International AIDS Conference titled “Improving Access and Innovation in HIV Treatment: The Medicines Patent Pool and Other Approaches.” The event was hosted by the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). Powerpoint slides are online at http://pag.aids2012.org/session.aspx?s=319 Pedro Esgueira from the International Dispensary Association […]
Infojustice Roundup WIPO 24th Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Debates The 24th Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights is currently underway at WIPO, which has posted meeting documents here, and a live webcast here. Last week’s discussions featured the debate over the treaty for limitations and exceptions for people with disabilities, and […]
This blog is a summary of a panel titled “The Future of Affordable Antiretroviral Treatment: Trends in Patents and Price” at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC on July 25, 2012. The authors’ presentations are available on a page provided by the conference: http://pag.aids2012.org/session.aspx?s=228#4 The first speaker, Francisco Viegas Neves da Silva from […]
On Tuesday, July 25, Chief TPP negotiator Barbara Weisel briefed civil society on the state of the negotiations. The briefing covered all areas of the negotiations (not just IPR). Weisel told the civil society audience that negotiators made progress in many areas at the San Diego round, but intellectual property and ecommerce were two areas […]
Senator Wyden has again written the Obama Administration insisting that ACTA cannot be implemented in the United States absent Congressional ratification. In a letter to State Department Attorney Harold Koh, he disagrees with Koh’s previous assertion that the Pro IP act allows the Administration to bypass Congress. He notes that the Administration had originally offered […]
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