U.S. general statement at 2009 WIPO GA
The following is the statement that the United States asked be included in the record for Agenda item 5 (General Statements) of the 2009 WIPO General Assembly.
Assemblies of the Member States
September 22 to October 1, 2009
AGENDA ITEM 5: General Statements
BACKGROUND:
2009 WIPO General Assembly begins
Every year at the end of September, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) holds a General Assembly (GA). The GA hears reports from all WIPO committees, approves budgets and top staff appointments, and sets the agenda for the next year. This year’s GA started today, with a large number of patent and copyright office heads, trade negotiators and NGOs in attendance.
KEI Brownbag on Bilski case: Scope of Patentable Subject Matter
Date: September 10, 2009
On September 10, 2009 KEI hosted a brownbag lunch to discuss the scope of patentable subject matter, focusing specifically on the implications for life-science patents of the Supreme Court’s forthcoming review of the Bilski Federal Circuit opinion. This is the first time since 1981 that the US Supreme Court will address the limits of patentable subject matter.
The key U.S. statue on this issue is Section 101 of the patent law:
35 USC 101. Inventions patentable
United States Trade Representative (USTR) FOIA requests
Before (or after) reading these accounts of FOIA requests to USTR, you might also review the transparency memorandum issued by President Obama in January 2009.
The following are some recent FOIA requests for USTR:
KEI June 19, 2007 Statement on WIPO Broadcasting Treaty
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
(See also the KEI web page on the WIPO broadcast treaty).
19 June 2007
WIPO Broadcasting Treaty
For older documents, see CPTech webpage on WIPO Broadcasting Treaty
For commentary, including breaking developments, see KEI blogs on the treaty.
Proposal for Treaty of Access to Knowledge (May 10, 2005 Draft)
The following is the text that was prepared in 2005 as a
possible basis for a treaty on Access to Knowledge. The text
was prepared in response to an August 2004 proposal by Argentina
and Brazil for a WIPO Development Agenda, that included in its
original proposal, a possible treaty on access to knowledge. The
process that created this specific draft text included three
elements.
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IP Remedies: Injunctions
Among the available remedies for intellectual property right infringement are injunctions or monetary relief. Especially in copyright and patent infringement cases, injunctions have been considered as the usual and de facto automatic remedy to prevent, deter or stop infringement. Injunctions may however also impose high costs on society.