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On October 26, Rep. Lamar Smith introduced the Stopping Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3261), also called the Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act (E-PARASTE Act.) H.R. 3261 is the House version of the Senatory Leahy’s PROTECT-IP Act, which goes after sites that host infringing content by taking down […]
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has announced “Re:Search,” a new consortium of pharmaceutical manufacturers, government entities, and nonprofit organizations which will share intellectual property in order to drive research and development for new drugs, vaccines and diagnostics for TB, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases. WIPO Director Francis Gurry called RE:Search a “ground breaking example […]
Sean Flynn, a lecturer at American University Washington College of Law and Associate Director of its Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, testified to negotiators of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement in Peru this week that they should reject the leaked US proposals on intellectual property and pharmaceutical pricing. Author PIJIP
The TPP chief negotiators took questions from stakeholders this morning in Lima, Peru. There were some elements of news scattered among numerous refusals to discuss, verify or explain any proposals or positions in the negotiations. One irony in the secrecy of this process has been the negotiation rules defining what can be transparent have themselves […]
Infojustice Roundup Intellectual Property and the Public Interest Ninth Round of Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations Underway; New Negotiating Texts Leaked Officials from the nine countries negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) are meeting this week in Lima, Peru, and will work on the agreement’s intellectual property chapter. A new section of the U.S.-proposed intellectual property […]
In advance of the upcoming meeting of the World Health Organization Working Group on Substandard/Spurious/Falsified/Falsely-Labeled/Counterfeit (SSFFC) Medical Products, 55 civil society groups have written its Chairperson to highlight concerns with the improper use of the term “counterfeit.” Excerpt from the joint letter: “The term ‘Counterfeit’ is defined by the WTO-TRIPS Agreement as referring to a […]
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