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ACTA’s biggest EU proponent, Karel De Gucht, the European Commissioner driving ACTA, is now admitting that the agreement may be doomed in Europe. Techdirt reports minutes from a recent Commission meeting in which De Gucht was paraphrased as saying: “that the campaign had also had a considerable influence on Members of the European Parliament and, […]
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Intellectual Property TPP Talks Stall in Melbourne Contrasting with the apparent progress on other chapters, which were declared “on track” by negotiators, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement’s intellectual property chapter appears to have stalled in Melbourne. According to some sources, the 10 day negotiation yielded no meaningful progress […]
Contrasting with apparent progress on some other chapters, which were declared “on track” by negotiators, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement’s intellectual property chapter appears to have stalled in Melbourne. According to some sources, the 10 day negotiation yielded no meaningful progress on the intellectual property chapter. This is as some of the most controversial aspects of […]
India has granted Natco Pharma Ltd. a compulsory license to produce generic sorafenib tosylate – a drug used to treat kidney and liver cancer that is patented by Bayer and sold under the brand name Nexaver. Under the terms of the license, Natco will sell the generic drug for a price not to exceed Rs. […]
Finland’s EU ministerial committee has postponed ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement until the European Court of Justice completes its review of it. The Helsingin Sanomat reported that the government won’t approve the trade agreement “until the European Union itself is committed to it.” Last month, the paper reported protests against ACTA in Helsinki. Author […]
WYDEN (at 7:02): Let me turn, and wrap up, with some questions again about intellectual property, because the same issues that were on the table in the Protect IP Act, the Stop Online Piracy Act, the discussion we had with respect to ACTA are now on the table with respect to the negotiations on the […]
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