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Seven governors have written President Obama asking him to include in the Trans Pacific Partnership “very strong intellectual property rights provisions, consistent with U.S. law, for protecting the investments of our innovative, intellectual property-investive sectors, such as biopharmaceuticals.” The letter was signed by Govs. Martin O’Malley (D-MD), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Dan Malloy (D-CT), Jack Markell […]
IP Enforcement Roundup PROTECT IP Act Clears Senate Judiciary Committee – Sen. Wyden Places a Hold on Bill The Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (S.968) unanimously passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 26. The legislation would allow the Justice Department to seize the domain names of […]
IP Enforcement Roundup UK Government-Commissioned Report Finds IP Framework a Barrier to Innovative Industries, Recommends Changes A “Review of Intellectual Property and Growth” by Cardiff University Professor Ian Hargreaves, commissioned by UK Prime Minster Cameron in 2010, finds that “copyright law has started to act as a regulatory barrier to the creation of certain kinds […]
On May 24, 2011, the European Commission unveiled a new initiative to modernize intellectual property protection. Noting that “in the last few years, technological change and, in particular, the growing importance of online activities, have completely changed the world in which IPR operate,” the EC has announced a “comprehensive strategy to revamp the legal framework […]
Steve Crocker, David Dagon, Dan Kaminsky, Danny McPherson, and Paul Vixie have authored a white paper warning that the DNS filtering requirements of the PROTECT IP Act would be ineffective in reducing piracy, but would harm the security of the internet. “DNS filtering will be evaded through trivial and often automated changes through easily accessible […]
The Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (S.968) unanimously passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 26. The legislation would allow the Justice Department to obtain court orders to go after sites “dedicated to infringing activities” by ordering domain name seizures and serving orders on third parties such […]
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