Year: 2013
NGOs, academics evaluate four USTR negotiators in TPP IPR negotiations
KEI has asked 21 persons following the TPP IPR negotiations, what they thought of four of the USTR negotiators, including:
- Ambassador and USTR head Michael Froman,
- TPP Chief negotiator Barbara Weisel
- Assistant USTR for Intellectual Property and Innovation Stanford McCoy, and
- Deputy Assistant USTR for Intellectual Property and Innovation Probir Mehta.
Are Nike, IOC and European football leagues scoring new IPR at the WTO?
At the request of the European Union, Jamaica, Mexico and the United States of America, the topic of “Intellectual Property and Sports” was placed for discussion at the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) October 2013 session of the Council for TRIPS (TRIPS Council).
Evolving Patent Issues and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
Introduction
I. Scope of Patentability
II. Evergreening Patents
III. Patent Trolls
IV. Presumption of Validity
V. Injunctions
VI. Exclusive Rights Over Test Data
VII. Patent Linkage
VIII. Delinkage/Positive Agenda
Conclusion
Introduction
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The Commerce Department Green Paper on digital copyright is soft on action, kicks cans down the road
In July 2013, the Department of Commerce Internet Policy Task Force published its awaited Green Paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy. It is over 100 pages long and 540 footnotes and a good read for anyone interested in copyright and the online environment. Continue Reading
The IPR chapter of the 1998 US/EU treaty on scientific and technological cooperation. Time for an update?
In 1998 a treaty on R&D went into force between the United States and the European Communities. The “Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European Community and the Government of the United States of America – Intellectual property” sets out a list of cooperative activities in Article 4, and provides an appendix addressing the intellectual property rights that come from those collaborations.
WTO TRIPS Council: Intervention of India on Intellectual Property and Sports
During the October 2013 WTO TRIPS Council, India delivered the following intervention on Intellectual Property and Sports. The European Union, Jamaica, Mexico and the United States had requested this agenda item placed for discussion.
Intervention on IP and SportsWTO TRIPS Council: Intervention of India on the Paragraph 6 mechanism
On 10 October 2013, India delivered the following intervention at the WTO TRIPS Council’s annual review of the paragraph 6 system.
Para 6 MechanismWTO TRIPS Council: Venezuelan intervention on intellectual property and sports
At the October 2013 WTO TRIPS Council, Venezuela delivered the following intervention on intellectual property and sports noting that the WTO should not duplicate WIPO negotiations on a possible treaty for the protection on broadcasting organizations.
WTO TRIPS Council: Intervention of India on Article 66.2
On Thursday, 10 October 2013, India delivered this intervention on Article 66.2 of the TRIPS Agreement mandates developed country members of the WTO to “provide incentives to enterprises and institutions in their territories for the purpose of promoting and encouraging technology transfer to least-developed country Members in order to enable them to create a sound and viable technological base.”
Intervention on Art 66.2