These were my tweets yesterday from the Fordham/Cambridge IPR event:
# Fordham event in Cambridge, UK. Michael Keplinger from WIPO said treaty for reading disabled “would take years and not solve the problem”
# At Fordham/Cambridge IP event, Luc Devigne of DG Trade says ACTA membership will be “enlarged,” become standard for developing countries.
# At Fordham/Cambridge IP meeting, Stan McCoy of USTR complained about “unfair standards” that “pick winners”. I will ask for elaboration.
# Stan McCoy clarified comment “unfair standards.” Includes cases where countries impose standards to require use of locally patented tech.
# At Fordham/Cambridge Tilman said secret stakeholder dialogues with handful of players will not replace legislation, parliament won’t allow.
# At Fordham/Cambridge, Judge Rader is bashing US Supreme Court for eBay decision on injunctions. Worst decision in decades, he says.
# At Fordham/Cambridge IP event, Judge Rader says all copyright appeals should be heard by CAFC. Judge Rakoff says abolish “captured” CAFC.
# Is Article 44.2 the least understood TRIPS flexibility? Clearly so here at Fordham/Cambridge copyright panel, where 3-step test is focus.
# Fees for top economists in IP or competition cases $2k per hour. Explains poor state of economic IPR analysis. Everyone is bought.
# At 5am, trying to decide between bad tasting Nescafe, and politically incorrect tea-bag