Section IV of Part III of the TRIPS Agreement impose certain obligations to WTO Member States relating to border measures that may require custom authorities interventions in cases of importation of infringing goods. However, as the rest of Part III it also allows considerable flexibility to WTO Members States in implementing its obligations.
Written by Judit Rius Sanjuan
The most important international intellectual property agreement regulating remedies for intellectual property infringement is the 1994 WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement).
The following are selected examples of U.S. law practices in the enforcement of intellectual property rights, with a particular emphasis on cases where there are limits on injunctive relief.
Copyright
In the Indian Copyright Act of 1957, there are limits on injunctive relief for cases involving architectural plans.
Copyright
Canada's copyright law contains limits to the ability for parties to obtain injunctive relief for architectural works:
Written by James Love
Thursday, 26 June 2008
These are the substantive suggestions for provisions of the ACTA that the RIAA sent to the USTR on March 17, 2008.
Orphan Works are copyrighted works whose owners may be impossible to identify and locate. Undertanding the access and dissemination problems that these kind of works impose to society, Governments have began to explore ways to address the issue. Canada Canada… Continue Reading
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An Annotated Bibliography of Scholarly and Technical Articles and Books on Innovation Prizes
KEI Research Note 2008:2
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2010. William Fisher and Talha Syed. Drugs, Law, and the Health Crisis in the Developing World. Stanford University Press. [link] Continue Reading
Tuesday, 05 June 2007
An pdf version of this document is available here.
David Serafino[1]
Knowledge Ecology International
4 June 2007
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Sunday, 03 June 2007
IGWG Briefing Paper on Patent Pools
Collective Management of Intellectual Property — The use of Patent Pools to expand access to essential medical technologies
KEI Research Note 2007:3 (1)