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Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Challenges Clear Channel Patent
The Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic helped the Electronic Frontier Foundation to draft and file a successful inter-partes reexamination request of a highly-publicized patent owned by Clear Channel for a system and method for recording live performances (e.g. music concerts), editing them into tracks during the performance, and recording them to media (e.g. CDs) within minutes of the performance ending.
Memo regarding consistency of national disclosures of origin requirements with existing intellectual property law treaties
The Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors commissioned a pro bono legal report from the IP clinic at American University's Washington College of Law, based on an issue framed together with the Peruvian Working Group. The report concludes that it is consistent with international treaties if a national patent law requires patent applicants to file proof that biological materials were obtained with a suitable access and benefit sharing agreement. The report has been delivered to INDECOPI (the Peruvian Intellectual Property Office) and is being made available to the public to assist other developing countries in bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations.
