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Another round of TPP negotiations on intellectual property is underway this week in Chile, and two additional countries are looking to get in on the action: Mexico and Canada. However, both countries may have trouble getting their citizenry to agree to the IP provisions if they remain in their current form. To determine how much […]
The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law will host a public seminar on intellectual property in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. Centro de Extension, Universidad Catolica Sala Colorada. Alameda 390, Santiago April 12, 2012 9:00 – 13:00 and 15:00 – 18:00 Author Mike Palmedo Mike Palmedo is the […]
The enclosed draft chart compares the IP enforcement provisions of the US TPP proposal with TRIPS and ACTA. It is a work in progress and does not contain every section yet. This document is being shared with negotiators at the intersessional round of TPP IP negotiations in Santiago, Chile, this week. DRAFT TRIPS-TPP-ACTA TABLE, Version […]
The World Bank today announced a new Open Access policy for research conducted in-house or supported by its grants. Beginning July 1, the bank will “require open access under copyright licensing from Creative Commons—a non-profit organization whose copyright licenses are designed to accommodate the expanded access to information afforded by the Internet.” The default license […]
The Industrial Association of Pharmaceutical Laboratories (Asociacion industrial de Laboratorios Farmacéuticos (Asilfa)) have written the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking for access to the technological and economic studies that justify entering the treaty. The association says “The secrecy with which the Executive has carried out the negotiations of the TPP is inadequate when they […]
This morning a group of nearly 70 international intellectual property academics and experts wrote to the Colombian legislature “in response to what we perceive as a hurried process to implement the provisions of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement through amendments to Colombian law that may not fully take into account the importance of balance in […]
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