UK Parliament Report: Health Access A ‘Treatment Timebomb’ 15/07/2009 by Intellectual Property Watch Leave a Comment “Maintaining HIV/AIDS treatment to keep people alive will cripple developing economies, or place unbearable strains on richer countries trying to support them and action is needed now, to avert crisis later,” says a report released this week by a cross-cutting parliamentary group in the United Kingdom. The All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS, a backbench […]
EU, US Consumer Groups Issue Resolution On Enforcement; Demand Role In ACTA 23/06/2009 by Robinson Esalimba for Intellectual Property Watch and William New 15 Comments An international coalition of consumer groups has issued a resolution calling into question global enforcement policy and offering core principles for policymakers to consider in setting new enforcement standards.
EFF: Keeping Patents Off Public Domain, Opening ACTA 18/06/2009 by Intellectual Property Watch 1 Comment The United States Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it will revoke an illegitimate patent on internet subdomains that was seen as potentially threatening to the public domain. The US patent, held by a company called Hoshiko, claimed to cover the method of automatically assigning internet subdomains, like “action.eff.org” for the parent domain “eff.org.” […]