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Infojustice Roundup Information Justice and the Public Interest ACTA-As-Counterproposal at TPP Negotiations and Other News from Dallas The 12th Round of Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations are currently underway in Dallas. For the past week, negotiators have covered intellectual property topics including enforcement and patents. As reported by Inside U.S. Trade, New Zealand, Australia, and Singapore […]
[originally posted to the Communia website under a CC-BY license] The book “The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture”, edited by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Juan Carlos De Martin as an output of the Communia Thematic Network, is out in all formats (hardback, paperback, and digital editions) and can be purchased on […]
Dear Mr De Gucht, As the parliamentary committee responsible for intellectual property law, the Committee on Legal Affairs is preparing to adopt an opinion for the Committee on International Trade whose task it is to recommend to the Plenary whether or not to consent to the conclusion of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States,
Groups that work on intellectual property were behind roughly half of the tables at today’s tabling session at the TPP negotiations in Dallas. An incomplete list included PhRMA, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the American Association of Publishers, the Business Software Alliance, the Property Rights Alliance, the Institute for Policy Innovation and the Chamber of Commerce… […]
Yesterday I gave a presentation on IPRs, technology and growth at the Dallas round of TPP negotiations. The following blog is based on my presentation. The slides I used are here. Policymakers and US industry groups have been arguing that TRIPS-Plus intellectual property rights will drive growth and innovation in all of the countries involved […]
A new (Spanish language) news story contains a quote by a higher level government official to the effect that Chile may pull out of the TPP negotiations if the U.S. does not significantly moderate its intellectual property demands. This follows similar statements made last month in a public forum by a current trade official, a […]
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