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Public Interest Groups Sue US Trade Representative Over ?Secret? Enforcement Treaty
Posted on September 18, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Perhaps no topic over the past year has been cause for more uneasy speculation within the intellectual property community than the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), primarily because the negotiating process for this treaty has been behind tightly closed doors...
US Says China To Sign Bilateral Cooperation Deals On IP Enforcement
Posted on September 17, 2008By Kaitlin Mara High-level officials from China and the United States on Tuesday reiterated their joint commitment to ?strategic cooperation? on copyright and trademark protection and enforcement, and agreed to hold further meetings of a joint intellectual property working group in the near future...
The South Strikes Back Against Overreaching IP Enforcement
Posted on September 17, 2008By Catherine Saez, William New and Kaitlin Mara Developed nations are overreaching in their broad push to escalate enforcement of intellectual property rights and their efforts should be reined in and centralised in the World Intellectual Property Organization, say leading developing nations led by China...
Drug Regulatory Agencies Collaborate On Counterfeits, New Medical Products
Posted on September 17, 2008By Kaitlin Mara BERN - Representatives from drug regulatory bodies are meeting this week in Bern, Switzerland, to discuss collaboration in an increasingly international world. Key topics of concern in the meetings include counterfeit drugs and issues in the production of new medical products...
Industry Still Wary Of ICANN Plan For New Top-Level Internet Domains
Posted on September 15, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has not adequately explained to the world the need for more generic top-level domains (gTLDs - such as .com), industry representatives said last week...
Le symposium sur la nouvelle économie culturelle appelle à élargir le débat sur les droits d?auteur
Posted on September 15, 2008Par Monika Ermert pour Intellectual Property Watch LINZ, AUTRICHE - Les discussions concernant les droits d?auteur se résument de plus en plus à un débat entre les pirates «qui pille absolument tout» et les détenteurs de droits d?auteur «qui veulent tout protéger», a averti Joichi Ito, un entrepreneur japonais, blogueur reconnu ...
Simposio insta a cesar el debate dicotómico sobre titulares de derechos contra piratas
Posted on September 15, 2008Por Monika Ermert para Intellectual Property Watch LINZ, AUSTRIA - La discusión sobre el derecho de autor se ha convertido en un debate simplista y dicotómico entre ?piratas que roban todo? y ?titulares de derechos que todo desean proteger?, advirtió Joichi Ito, empresario japonés, blogger y director general de Creative ...
Officials Urge Progress On Law To Boost Science, Innovation In Thailand
Posted on September 15, 2008By Sinfah Tunsarawuth for Intellectual Property Watch BANGKOK - Recently enacted legislation establishing a national plan on science, technology and innovation is expected to boost Thailand?s competitiveness in science and technology, according to government officials...
Inside Views: Voices From Innovative Business Projects in Brazil and Nigeria
Posted on September 12, 2008Intellectual Property Watch caught up with innovative business leaders Regina Casé and Charles Igwe at the Access to Knowledge Conference in Geneva on 9 September. Look below to see what they had to say on piracy and cultural expression within their industries, and then click here to read more about ...
Open Business Systems Fill Gap In Mainstream Entertainment Industry
Posted on September 12, 2008By Kaitlin Mara Outside the realm of mainstream proprietary entertainment, owned by big studios and protected by brand names, lay large numbers of artists without audiences looking for the means to distribute their creativity, and groups of people who yearn for art reflective of experiences not touched upon by the mainstream ...
US IP Industry Group Pushes ?Green? Patents; Adopts Resolution On Compulsory Licences
Posted on September 11, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch BOSTON - More companies have joined a global effort to improve the environment by pledging "green" patents for use in the public domain. Meanwhile, a US IP law group passed a resolution on IP and public health, including provisions urging restriction of compulsory ...
Key Consumer Advocate Jumps To Microsoft; USPTO Official To Industry Group
Posted on September 11, 2008A top consumer advocate has joined the Microsoft Corporation to lobby for its interests in Brussels. Plus, changes at the top for a Washington IP industry association, and Japan's patent office. Please note: this article is password protected and only available for IP-Watch Subscribers...
Top IP-Owning Nations Claim Faster Patent Processing; Near Harmonisation Deal
Posted on September 10, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch BOSTON - Japan next month will roll out a new patent process which aims to examine a patent application anywhere from two weeks to one month from receipt of request. Meanwhile, the United States said patent harmonisation among top IP countries is near, ...
US Judge: US Patent Law Destabilising; ?Right To Patent? Under Attack
Posted on September 10, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch BOSTON - Patent law in the United States is in danger of becoming "highly destabilised" as well-funded competing interests try to vie for legislators' ears in Washington, a federal judge said Tuesday...
The First-Ever Intellectual Property Watch Reader Survey
Posted on September 10, 2008After 3 1/2 years of publishing articles and comments on IP policy it's high time we at Intellectual Property Watch asked your views on our website and our products. Influence the news! Take this short, simple and totally confidential survey and let us know what you think! In case of ...
Can Non-Western Language Internet Addresses Solve The Digital Divide? The Case Of Arabic
Posted on September 09, 2008By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch Arab information technology experts have welcomed a recent development in internet governance that could allow the use of Arabic script website addresses, saying it will help to protect Arabic culture, remove the language barrier and reduce the digital and knowledge gap between the Arab ...
Access To Knowledge Conference Begins Addressing New Challenges With New Ideas
Posted on September 09, 2008By Kaitlin Mara A key conference on access to knowledge (A2K) opened Monday, with veterans of the A2K movement mixed with many new faces and all participants hoping to find new ideas over the next few days, as they seek to clarify the best paths forward...
El siempre creciente ?movimiento? de acceso a los conocimientos busca fortalecerse mediante la diversidad
Posted on September 08, 2008Por Kaitlin Mara La inclusión de un texto sobre el ?acceso a los conocimientos? en un acuerdo sobre derechos de propiedad intelectual y desarrollo a finales del año pasado fue percibida por los partidarios de esta iniciativa como un gran éxito. Algunas propuestas, que hace unos años habrían sido consideradas ...
Symposium Calls For End Of Binary Discussion Of Rightsholders Versus Pirates
Posted on September 07, 2008By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch LINZ, AUSTRIA - Copyright discussion has become a simplistic binary debate of "pirates that steal everything" versus "rightsholders that want to protect everything," warned Japanese entrepreneur, blogger and CEO of the Creative Commons Joichi Ito in his opening remarks for this year?s Ars Electronica ...
Le mouvement grandissant en faveur de l?accès aux connaissances puise sa force dans la diversité
Posted on September 06, 2008Par Kaitlin Mara À la fin de l?année dernière, les partisans de l?« accès aux connaissances » ont vécu come une victoire l?insertion de dispositions sur le sujet dans un accord relatif aux droits de propriété intellectuelle et au développement. Une idée qui, il y a encore quelques années, aurait été ...
US Presidential Candidates Prioritise IP Issues But Diverge On Details
Posted on September 05, 2008By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch The presidential election in the United States is getting down to the wire, with Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama being officially chosen as their parties' nominees. The intellectual property community is taking particular note of what positions the candidates are taking on ...
Appropriate IP System Touted For Local Science-Based Industry In Islamic Nations
Posted on September 04, 2008By Wagdy Sawahel for Intellectual Property Watch Growth of intellectual property rights depends on the level of technological development and most Islamic countries are seen as marginalised and scientifically lagging least-developed countries. This has led some experts in the region to call for a system-wide approach to make IP rights supportive ...
New Geneva Think Tank Features Developing Nation Research On IP
Posted on September 03, 2008By Kaitlin Mara A new think-tank in Geneva has found a unique way to bring the collective power of leading developing country thinkers and researchers to bear on Geneva policy-making, while allowing those thinkers to remain current by staying within their own national contexts...
Inside Views: India?s Section 3(d) Conundrum
Posted on September 02, 2008Editor's Note: This submission refers to the 2005 patent law in India, which amended India's 1970 patent law and implemented the 1994 World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). India allowed proposed patent applications to be submitted in advance to a mailbox before the law's ...
EE.UU.: tribunal hace valer las licencias de código abierto; gran impacto en las leyes sobre derechos de autor
Posted on August 29, 2008Por Steven Seidenberg para Intellectual Property Watch El fallo no tiene valor de precedente. No obstante, la reciente decisión del caso Jacobsen v. Katzer (en inglés) tendrá un gran impacto en las leyes estadounidenses sobre derechos de autor, según expertos en propiedad intelectual (PI)...
La justice américaine reconnaît le caractère exécutoire des licences open source : impact majeur en perspective sur le droit d?auteur aux Etats-Unis
Posted on August 29, 2008Steven Seidenberg pour Intellectual Property Watch La décision ne fera pas jurisprudence. Néanmoins, selon certains spécialistes de la propriété intellectuelle, le récent jugement de l?affaire Jacobsen contre Katzer aura des conséquences majeures sur le droit d?auteur aux États-Unis...
Experts Discuss The Role Of IP In Environmental Technology Transfer
Posted on August 29, 2008Experts Discuss The Role Of IP In Environmental Technology Transfer
US Court Finds Open Source Licences Enforceable; Big Impact Seen On US Copyright Law
Posted on August 26, 2008By Steven Seidenberg for Intellectual Property Watch The ruling has no precedential value. Nevertheless, the recent decision in Jacobsen v. Katzer will have a major impact on US copyright law, according to IP experts. Jacobsen held that open source licences can be enforced under US copyright law...
August/September Edition of IP-Watch Monthly Reporter Now Available
Posted on August 21, 2008The Intellectual Property Watch Monthly Reporter features the most important news on international IP policymaking, the latest on who is coming and going in the IP community at the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Geneva missions, regional and national IP offices, industry and non-governmental organisations, plus News Briefs on reports ...
Difícil aplicación de metas de biodiversidad y seguridad alimentaria en tratado internacional sobre semillas
Posted on August 15, 2008Por Catherine Saez Mientras el mundo lucha contra una crisis global de alimentos, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) está trabajando para apoyar la biodiversidad, como una forma de contribuir a la seguridad alimentaria...
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I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...
What is comparative negligence and strict liability in tort law?
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B. seller sells to buyer
B. defense of ...
How to prove housing discrimination based on sexual orientation in student housing?
There are several things you can do. First of all, contact any welfare advisors,...
Enter your questionIf my Mother in- law added my husband and his sister to the title of her house, who makes the decisions on it?
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