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On Monday Amy 2, USTR published the 2011 Special 301 Report, available here. After examining 77 countries, it included 12 on the Priority Watch List, 28 on the Watch list, and under “Section 306 monitoring.” Most of the countries in this year’s Special 301 Report have been regularly included in previous ones. For the first […]
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has just released it’s annual “Special 301 Report”. The report has been instrument for political pressure from USA regarding their ideal enforcement measures for protection of intellectual property rights (IPR). The Brazilian government does not legitimize either the report or the processes it tries to push […]
The U.S. Trade Representative’s 2011 Special 301 Report was released yesterday afternoon at about 4pm. (James Love from Knowledge Ecology International has an excellent blog on it here.) Overall, this year’s Special 301 Report shows relatively little effort to respond to public interest submissions outside of the medicines issue. Even on medicines, the section on […]
IP Enforcement Roundup USTR to Release Special 301 Report Today USTR has scheduled the release of the 2011 Special 301 Report for today. All of the comment received by USTR in this year’s Special 301 Report, including both written comments and testimony at the public hearing are available at regulations.gov (enter “ustr-2010-0037″ in the search […]
2011 Special 301 Report Author PIJIP
Inside U.S. Trade reports that USTR intends to table a full intellectual property chapter for the TPP by mid June, and that the pharmaceutical industry has been lobbying to reverse the policy deal struck by the Bush Administration and Congressional Democrats on May 10, 2007. The leaked intellectual property text that has circulated leaves out […]
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