Analysis at the intersection of intellectual
property law and the public interest.
The International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development has published a new issue paper, The Influence of Preferential Trade Agreements on the Implementation of Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries, by Ermias Tekeste Biadgleng and Jean-Christophe Maur. Biadgleng and Maur find that after countries ratify trade agreements with the US and the EU, they often […]
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Draft Analysis of U.S. TPP Proposals for Intellectual Property and Pharmaceuticals, Open for Comment A joint analysis of the leaked U.S. proposals for intellectual property and pharmaceutical pricing chapters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been released by Margot Kaminski (Yale), Brook Baker (Northeastern University) and Jimmy […]
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Public Health Groups Launch Global Campaign Against Abbott Labs’ Monopoly on Critical AIDS Medicine Public health groups in a dozen countries have launched a campaign to challenge Abbott Laboratories’ monopolistic hold on lopinavir+ritonavir, a critical HIV/AIDS medicine. In the US, Vietnam and Indonesia, groups asked their governments […]
On November 15, the European Parliament issued a resolution that “Stresses the need to protect the integrity of the global internet and freedom of communication by refraining from unilateral measures to revoke IP addresses or domain names.” The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Operation In Our Sites has blocked domain names for websites run by […]
The World Trade Organization’s TRIPS Council will ask Member states to consider a request from Least Developed Countries for an extension of the deadline for their compliance with the TRIPS Agreement. IP Watch reports that Bangladesh presented the TRIPS Council with the request, which recognizes that “Least Developed Country Members continue to face serious economic, […]
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure has just released the response it got from the EU INTA committee to the request to disclose the legal opinion the Committee recently received on ACTA. In what would be a shocking response, if it was not so common in the history of ACTA, the Committee released a […]