Advocating for a world where intellectual
property law serves the public interest.
On Wednesday, April 16, 2011, the Senate Judiciary will hold a hearing titled “Promoting Investment and Protecting Commerce Online: Legitimate Sites v. Parasites, Part II.” This is the second in a series of hearings held by Chairman Patrick Leahy, who introduced last year’s Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act. (Notes from the first hearing are […]
Speaking at an Indian Parliamentary committee meeting on IPRs, Minster of Commerce and Industry Shri Anand Sharma spoke out against seizures of generic medicines in the Netherlands. “These detentions of Indian generics by Europe were deemed to be TRIPS violative by us and India submitted its request on 11th May 2007 to the Dispute Settlement […]
IP-ENFORCEMENT ROUNDUP USTR publishes 2011 NTE Report on Foreign Trade Barriers USTR today published the National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, which describes barriers to trade in 60 nations, the European Union, and the Arab League. The report contains (very brief) descriptions of the intellectual property environment in each of the countries covered, […]
Senators Brown and Stabenow have introduced the Trade Enforcement Priorities Act of 2011. The legislation “would require the USTR to analyze trade barriers in the National Trade Estimates Report to determine which have the most adverse effect on U.S. exports and employment. Under the bill, the USTR – in consultation with other relevant agencies and […]
Michael Blakeney April 1, 2011 Original: http://goo.gl/tZhwt The annual $US 60 billion trade in counterfeit and pirate products was the principal catalyst of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and its IP rights enforcement regime. However, 10 years later, this trade had grown tenfold, despite TRIPS. A select group of mainly industrialised […]
USTR today published the NTE Report, which describes barriers to trade in 60 nations, the European Union, and the Arab League. The report contains (very brief) descriptions of the IP landscape in each of the countries covered, and often notes “concerns” about perceived weakness in enforcement. The introduction describes the report as a statutorily required […]
Posts by Category
- Video
- User Rights Network
- US Domestic Policies
- US Domestic Legislation
- Transparency
- Trade Agreements
- Takedown
- Trade Disputes
- Trademark
- Round-up
- Regional Fora
- Surveys and Data
- Positive Agenda
- Patent Pledges
- Open
- News
- Multilateral Fora
- Limitations and Exceptions
- IP & Research
- IP and Human Rights
- Industry Initiatives
- Flagged
- Fair Use
- Events
- Empirical Research
- Document Library
- Coronavirus
- Brazil
- Blog
- Bilateral Trade Pressures
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI
- Africa Group Work Plan Proposal
- Africa: Copyright & Public Interest
- Access to Medicine
- Academic Resources