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Summer Session
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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A First Look at the 2009 Decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (February 4, 2010)
To commemorate the 25th Anniversary of its Federal Circuit issue, the American University Law Review will host a panel of practitioners who will discuss their impressions of the Federal Circuit’s decisions in 2009. The panelists will offer their insights on significant cases and jurisprudential trends in the areas of patent, trademark, international trade, government contracts, and veterans claims law.
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English Version of Peter Jaszi's Book on IP and Traditional Arts in Indonesia Is Now Online
Professor Jaszi's study is the culmination of research conducted as part of a group of scholars, journalists, and observers of the arts who made multiple trips to Central Java and Bali to look at the practice of certain “traditional” arts. The group met with artists, performers, and creators to discuss their concerns regarding the current state of their arts, and to explore possibilities for attribution and compensation for their work.These arts—Javanese wayang kulit, gamelan music, and batik, and Balinese dance, gamelan music, and ikat—have, like most Indonesian arts, historically operated without Intellectual Property (IP) regulation.
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Why haven’t American news media picked up on ACTA?
I endeavored to find information regarding ACTA in the vast array of national newspapers in the United States. I soon discovered that American newspapers are not picking up on either side of the ACTA debate in large numbers at all. In fact, the discussion regarding ACTA is almost completely absent from any American newspaper, even though it has been reported on and analyzed in newspapers abroad.
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Google DC Hosts ACTA Panel Discussion
On Monday, January 11, 2010 Google’s DC offices hosted a panel discussion about the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) moderated by the Washington Post columnist Rob Pegoraro. The discussion focused on the issue of lack of transparency, the problems that ACTA is trying to resolve, and whether it would require changes to domestic law.
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Professor Michael Carroll Lectures on "The Effect of Copyright on Creativity" at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg
Michael Carroll will speak on a December 11 panel with Niva Elkin-Koren from the University of Haifa. The panel will be titled "How much of an incentive is it really? - The Effect of Copyright on Creativity." This will be on of the first of a new series of lectures in intellectual property in the coming years that will cover the most topical issues from an international perspective. In the long term, the school hopes to establish an Institute for Intellectual Property and Media Law.
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PIJIP and South African Filmmakers to Launch Report on Copyright and Documentary Filmmaking in South Africa
PIJIP and American University's Center for Social Media, working with South Africa’s Documentary Filmmakers Association and Women of the Sun, present a special 2-day workshop and film screening focusing around the issue of expanding the utility of copyright “users’ rights” for documentary filmmaking. The workshop is part of a larger project working with filmmakers around the world to better understand and expand rights to utilize copyrighted material in filmmaking without license.
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The EU, The Developing World, and Data Exclusivity; Effects of Current Policies on Access to Medicines
Compulsory licenses are an important mechanism for developing countries needing to access medicines when drug supply does not meet drug demand, or to serve important public interests. Data exclusivity provisions in European trade agreements have the potential to erode this important pathway to greater access to medicines.
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Patentable Subject Matter After the Bilski Oral Argument
Yesterday, PIJIP and the Federal Circuit Bar Association recently co-hosted "Patentable Subject Matter After the Bilski Oral Argument." The case has drawn a great deal of interest because it addresses the question: What is the proper legal standard for determining whether a kind of process is capable of receiving patent protection? Must it involve use of a machine or a transformation of matter from one thing or state to another? Focusing on the recent oral argument in In re Bilski in the United States Supreme Court, the event featured counsel for the parties.
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Beyond TRIPS - The Evolving Law of International Intellectual Property Enforcement
IP owners and many governments advocate tougher enforcement of intellectual property than is currently required by the TRIPS Agreement. Critics warn that it risks upsetting the TRIPS Agreement’s balance between the protection of IP-owners’ and IP-users’ rights. On November 5, PIJIP will bring together leading academics and civil society actors to discuss international enforcement of IP.
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Patent Lecture - NYU Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss' Lecture Now Posted
I'm pleased to announce that the video of Professor Rochelle C. Dreyfuss's delivery of the Fifth Annual Finnegan Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property at American University, Washington College of Law is now available here. The lecture is "What the Federal Circuit Can Learn from the Supreme Court -- and Vice Versa."
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