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PIJIP News Items

February 4, 2008. The Constitutionality of Data Privacy Laws: The Case of IMS v. Ayotte.

February 1, 2008. Professor Sean Flynn Testimony before the NY General Assembly Committee on Health.

January 17, 2008. Appeal of Thailand Commission Order on Abbott's Refusal to Sell AIDS Medications in Thailand.

January 11, 2008. Selling Drug Data Threatens Patient Privacy and Care - AU Law Professor Defends Patients and Doctors before First Ciciut Court of Appeals.

January 11, 2008. Finnegan Henderson Accepting Applications for 2008 Diversity Scholarship

January 9, 2008. First Circuit to Hear Case Challenging Prescription Datamining

November 11, 2007. "The Constitutionality of State Regulation of Prescription Data Mining." Sean Flynn. BNA Pharmaceutical Law and Industry Report.

November 6, 2007. South Africa's Treatment Action Coalition Files Competition Commission Complaint Against Merck for Refusal to License Essential Patents for Efavirenz.

November 5, 2007. PIJIP joins EFF, ACLU of No. Cal., the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, Public Knowledge, and AU's Center for Social Media in endorsing the report Fair Use Principles for User Generated Video Content.

Octboer 25, 2007. Third Annual Distinguished Lecture on IP:
J. Thomas McCarthy on
"Using Other People’s Trademarks"
View Webcast: (Click Here)

October 23, 2007. PIJIP Releases New Analysis of Thai Competition Case Against Abbott on Eve of Competition Commission Hearing

October 16, 2007. PIJIP Defends DC's Safe Rx Act of 2007.

October 4, 2007. Testimony on Defending Massachusetts Law of Data Mining,

PIJIP Brief Defends N.H. Prescription Privacy Law [Copy of Brief]

August 31, 2007. PIJIP Releases Report Defending Constitutionality of New Hampshire Prescription Tracking Ban: Report Follows Lawsuits Filed in Vermont and Maine Yesterday (Full report available here.)

August 2, 2007. BIO v. DC and the New Need to Eliminate Federal Patent Law Preemptionof State and Local Price and Product Regulation

June 29, 2007. Written Statement of Sean Flynn before the Council of the District of Columbia, Committee on Health, Hearing on the Implementation of Access Rx, Titles II and III

June 29, 2007. Oral Statement of Sean Flynn before the Council of the District of Columbia, Committee on Health, Hearing on the Implementation of Access Rx, Titles II and III

June 21, 2007. Media Literacy Education and Fair Use: Aufderheide and Jaszi Awarded MacArthur Foundation Grant

June 5, 2007. Promoting Access to Second Generation AIDS Treatment in the Second Decade After TRIPS

May 25, 2007. PIJIP Response to the Release of the Draft Text of the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement

May 7, 2007. WCL IP Moot Court Team takes Regional Second Place Oralist Team at Saul Lefkowitz regional moot court tournament

April 30, 2007. Analysis of Supreme Court patent law decision in KSR v. Teleflex, No. 04-1350

April 3, 2007.Sean Flynn and Swati Rawani. U.S. Jurisdiction to Prosecute Anticompetitive Licensing Practices that Impact Foreign Aid Programs

March 23, 2007. Sean Flynn. Considering Competition Complaints Against Abbott in Thailand - a brief explanation of potential legal arguments

March 22, 2007. Professor Peter Jaszi Honored with 2007 L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award

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