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UK Business Secretary Vince Cable is expected to announce legislation to change British copyright law tomorrow. Press reports in the Financial Times and the Guardian indicate that the news legislation adopt some of the recommendations of the Hargreaves Report, including the legalization of copying digital content from one format to another for personal use, and […]
IP ENFORCEMENT ROUNDUP India and EU Announce Agreement on Dispute Over Seizures of Drugs in Transit India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced an agreement with the EU to settle their dispute over the seizure of Indian generic drugs in transit. The EU has agreed to adopt guidelines for its customs officials preventing them […]
The Motion Picture Association of America has announced eleven different letters in support of the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (S.968 – the ‘PROTECT-IP Act). The legislation allow the Justice Department to obtain court orders to go after sites “dedicated to infringing activities” by ordering domain name […]
The Mexican Senate has asked President Calderon to reject ACTA. A statement by a group of Senators led by Eloy Cantu Segovia (translated by Geraldine Juarez, and printed in English on Techdirt) said that ACTA “would violate the principle of the presumption of innocence… would be a limitation to the ‘universlaization of internet access desirable […]
India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced an agreement with the EU to setting their dispute over the seizure of Indian generic drugs in transit. The EU has agreed to adopt guidelines for its customs officials preventing them from seizing medicines in transit unless they have evidence that the goods will enter the European […]
Forty Members of the House of Representatives have written President Obama urging that the intellectual property chapter of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) include a requirement that countries offer 12 years of data exclusivity for new biologic drugs: “…we urge you to support current U.S. law on biologics, which provides for 12 years of protection. […]
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