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Archives for March 2009

US Trade Team Responds To Protectionist Pressure In Reports On Trading Partners

31/03/2009 by William New and Dirshaye Abate for Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

The Obama administration’s new trade team has quickly come under pressure to focus on protecting United States interests, including enforcement of intellectual property rights, at a time when multilateral institutions urge governments to remain open for the sake of the global economy.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, News, Themes, Venues, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, North America, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains, WTO/TRIPS

Industry Gets European Union Buy-In At Event Against Piracy, Counterfeiting

30/03/2009 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

The European Commission this week will launch a forum for coordinating attacks against counterfeit and pirated goods, to be announced at a daylong event featuring representatives from a wide range of industries. No representatives of the public interest or consumers appear to be included in the event or related initiatives.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, News, Themes, Venues, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Europe, Lobbying, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Trademarks/Geographical Indications/Domains

Germany Opts For ISP Filtering Of Child Pornography; NGOs Warn Of Unintended Impact

30/03/2009 by Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch 5 Comments

Several German ministries seem to be in a footrace to draft legal text for a filtering regime blocking child pornography from German users’ personal computers agreed by the government last week.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, News, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Europe, IP Law, Information and Communications Technology/ Broadcasting

Strickling Nominated To Head US Telecom & Internet Agency

30/03/2009 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

The Obama administration recently nominated Larry Strickling assistant secretary of Commerce for communications and information, a post which would make him head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The NTIA is responsible for the US government agreement overseeing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is the technical coordinator of […]

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, Venues, ITU/ICANN

US Commerce Secretary Locke On Patents

30/03/2009 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

Newly confirmed United States Commerce Secretary Gary Locke was asked some questions about patents during his nomination process in the Senate. The Commerce secretary oversees the US Patent and Trademark Office. Here are his responses [pdf], according to a Washington lobbying group.

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, Language, English

WIPO Patent Committee Calls For Further Study, Consultations

30/03/2009 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

Five new studies on select patent-related topics and informal, open-ended consultations on global issues are the key elements of future work for a World Intellectual Property Organization committee that wrapped up its meeting late Friday.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, News, Themes, Venues, Development, English, Environment, Health & IP, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, Technical Cooperation/ Technology Transfer, WIPO

Videocast With Georg Greve On Software Patents

30/03/2009 by Intellectual Property Watch 2 Comments

Georg Greve of Free Software Foundation Europe makes the case that software fails a three-step test to determine patentability.

Filed Under: Inside Views, IP Policies, Language, Themes, Venues, English, Information and Communications Technology/ Broadcasting, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets, WIPO

Is WIPO A Cybersquatter?

30/03/2009 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment

The academic Internet Governance Project reports that the World Intellectual Property Organization – a key arbitration body for global internet domain disputes – appears to have registered a domain name using a name trademarked by someone else three years earlier. WIPO registered the name patentscape.info in 2008, after the mark patentscape was obtained in 2006 […]

Filed Under: IP-Watch Briefs, Language, English

US Wrestles With Transparency As Europeans Urge Release Of ACTA Texts

27/03/2009 by Kaitlin Mara for Intellectual Property Watch 5 Comments

The parliaments of Sweden and the European Union are urging the European Union to make public all documentation related to a secretive global anti-counterfeiting treaty, while the United States has claimed the papers are a matter of national security and therefore a state secret. But now the US has decided to undertake a review of its transparency.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, News, Themes, Venues, Access to Knowledge/ Education, Copyright Policy, Enforcement, English, Europe, Lobbying, North America

US Patent Reform Legislation Progressing; Committee To Reconvene Next Week

26/03/2009 by William New, Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment

The committee of the United States Senate drafting legislation to reform the US patent system made little progress at a meeting Thursday, according to sources, but adopted a bipartisan amendment and scheduled to reconvene next week to continue work.

Filed Under: IP Policies, Language, News, Themes, Venues, English, IP Law, North America, Patents/Designs/Trade Secrets

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