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Registration for the International Intellectual Property Summer Session is now open for non-WCL students. Those wishing to register should visit the PIJIP page for more information about courses and summer faculty, or to complete the online registration.
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ACTA Communiqué Organized by PIJIP Warns Against Threats to Numerous Public Interests
Over 650 European Parliamentarians, civil society organizations, academics, practitioners and individuals have signed an ACTA Communiqué authored at a meeting of over 90 international intellectual property experts held last week at American University Washington College of Law. The Communiqué warns that ACTA will threaten numerous public interests, including every concern specifically disclaimed by negotiators.
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Preliminary Comparison of the Consolidated ACTA Text and China's IP Law
Although China is a main target of the anti-counterfeiting agenda, it has not been invited to the ACTA negotiations. ACTA negotiating partners have deliberately opted for a plurilateral approach to circumvent possible opposition from developing countries such as China, Brazil and India. However, the long term aim of ACTA is to establish new global norms for IPR enforcement. Developing countries will face great pressure to adhere to them.
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ACTA Communique: Spanish
Esta declaración refleja las conclusiones alcanzadas en el encuentro de más de 90 académicos, abogados y organizaciones de interés público de los seis continentes reunidos en American University Washington College of Law, del 16 al 18 de June de 2010. El encuentro fue convocado por el Programa sobre Información, Justicia y Propiedad Intelectual de American University para analizar el texto oficial del Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), publicado por primera vez en Abril del 2010.
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ACTA Communique: French
Ce brouillon de la déclaration reflète les conclusions atteintes à une réunion de plus de 90 universitaires, des praticiens et des organisations d'intérêt publiques de cinq continents rassemblés à l'Université américaine de Washington (école de de Droit), le 16-18 juin 2010. Les jours après la réunion(rencontre), la déclaration a reçu les soutiens individuels et organisationnels inscrits ci-dessous et est toujours ouverte pour de nouvelles signatures à www.pijip.org (email: acta.declaration@gmail.com).
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Meeting to Bring Together Academics and Advocates to Discuss Public Interest Impacts of Controversial Intellectual Property Treaty
Over 80 academics and advocates from 5 continents will be gathering at American University Washington College of Law on June 17 and 18 to deliberate over public interest concerns with a controversial intellectual property treaty being negotiated in secret. The meeting will be taking place 10 days before the launch of the next round of negotiations of the secretly negotiated Anticounterfeiting Trade Agreement in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Public Citizen Submits Comments on EC Customs Regulation 1383/2003
Public Citizen's comments to the European Commission on the DG TAXUD consultation paper, “Review of EU legislation on customs enforcement of intellectual property rights,” are available online. Our first recommendation is that the EC should propose revisions to council Regulation 1383/2003 limiting ex officio intellectual property customs actions to cases of willful trademark counterfieting and copyright policy on a commercial scale...
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Note on ACTA and Access to Medicines
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is inappropriately named. Its current scope proposes to extend minimum enforcement and legal remedy requirements to a broad range of intellectual property law far beyond the limited terrain of criminal trademark counterfeiting. The draft is a fairly clear product of close consultation with rights holders with little concern for or representation of the interests of competitors.
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WCL Intellectual Property Brief Publishes First Issue, Issues Call for Papers
The Intellectual Property Brief (http://www.ipbrief.net) is currently accepting submissions for our summer issue. We are looking for papers that address a legal topic relating to any area of intellectual property. Please submit completed papers by June 4, 2010.
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India and Brazil Request Consultations at WTO Over EU Seizures of Generic Medicines
India and Brazil have requested formal consultations with the EU concerning its repeated seizures of generic medicines. This is the first step in the WTO’s dispute settlement process. European customs agents seized at least 17 shipments of medicines believing they violated patents, often at the request of companies that held European patents on the medicines. However, these medicines were not patented in their country of origin (India) nor their destination countries in Latin America and Africa.
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South Africa to Debate Traditional Knowledge Bill
Next week, the South African Parliament will debate the Intellectual Property Laws Amendments Bill, which was introduced by the Minister of Trade and Industry in 2008. The bill aims to increase protection of traditional knowledge by amending the Performers’ Protection Act, the Copyrights Act, the Trade Marks Act, and the Designs Act.
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