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IP-ENFORCEMENT ROUNDUP EC Releases 2010 Customs Seizure Statistics The EU has published its annual “Report on EU Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights.” Last year, EC customs officials seized 79,112 shipments, up from 43,572 in 2009. However, the number of ‘articles’ within the shipments seized fell from 118 million in 2009 to 103 million in […]
Last year, EC customs border seized 79,112 shipments with a total retail value of €1.1 billion. The number of cases was nearly double that of last year (43,572). The shipments seized were smaller in volume, and the number of ‘articles’ seized fell from 118 million in 2009 to 103 in 2010 million. 42% of the […]
Gilead has become the first pharmaceutical company to license patents it holds on antiretroviral medicines to the Medicines Patent Pool, a swiss nonprofit established by UNITAID to collect licenses for the manufacture and distribution of medicines for HIV treatment. The licenses covers tenofovir and emtricitabine (currently recommended by the World Health Organization for treatment in […]
China’s Vice Minister of Commerce Jiang Zengwei announced at a press conference that the nine-month “Special Operation Against IPR Infringement and Counterfeiting,” which ran from October 2010 to June 2011, led to over 150,000 investigations, which yeilded 9031 arrests and 12,854 shutdowns of plants making pirated goods. The value of goods seized were reported by […]
SAVE THE DATE: August 25-27, 2011 American University Washington College of Law 4801 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC, 20016 Please mark your calendars and plan to participate in one of the most important meetings on international intellectual property law of the year. American University Washington College of Law (WCL) will host the first annual Global […]
On July 11, 2011, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) presented the results of a study (prepared by Capital Trade, Inc.) on the value of fair use in the U.S. economy. The study—which was conducted using a methodology developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization—found that fair use-reliant industries have contributed significantly to the […]
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