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WEB3 days ago · Public interest intellectual property news and analysis, with a focus on copyright user rights, access to knowledge goods, and innovation. Host of the 2018 Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest.
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WEBinfojustice.org is a website and blog maintained by the American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. It is part of our work to refocus the debate over access to knowledge goods and the free flow of innovation among creators and consumers. We blog about issues related to ...
Global benefits flow when innovation shared: UN Pact for the …
WEB17 hours ago · QUT News. 26th September 2024. Australia could boost funding to transfer sustainable technology to developing countries and make technology and data open and accessible to help implement the UN Pact for the Future, QUT Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Professor Matthew Rimmer said.. Australia’s support for the new UN Pact for the Future and its sustainable development focus must ...
Covid-19 Trade Secrets and Information Access: An Overview
WEBJul 10, 2020 · In the case of Covid, potential trade secrets include manufacturing processes, test data, medical formulas, and cell lines and other biological resources. Chemical formulas are classic trade secrets. So are processes for manufacturing. For vaccines and other biologic medicines, cell lines, genomic information, and other biological material can ...
WIPO Treaty on Genetic Resources and Associated ... - infojustice
WEBMay 27, 2024 · As described in “Article 6 of the WIPO IGC Treaty: Restraining Revocation,” many laws in developing countries explicitly authorize revocation of granted patents for non-compliance with genetic resource disclosure requirements that may have to be changed if the Treaty is ratified by them.[9]. A Victory for WIPO and Brazil. The conclusion of the treaty was a victory for the leadership of ...
Disclaiming Designs: A Comment on the “Dotted Lines” Issue in …
WEB3 days ago · In this blog post, leading Design Law Professor Sarah Burstein argues that the negotiating draft of the WIPO Design Law Treaty contains a little noticed provision, buried in its “regulations,” that attempts to harmonize a key area of disagreement across jurisdictions on “perhaps the most basic question of all: What counts as a ‘design’?”
Patent Scholars Critique Patent Eligibility Restoration Act
WEB3 days ago · A White Paper on Proposed Revisions by the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), S. 2140, published by Joshua D. Sarnoff and Charles Duan, critiques the 2023 legislation which seeks to revise the doctrine of subject matter eligibility in U.S. patent law.. The paper argues that the proposed changes are poorly conceived, ignoring centuries of legal history and failing to address the real ...
Academic Publishers Face Lawsuit Over Anti-Competitive Practices
WEB3 days ago · A lawsuit filed against six major academic publishers alleges that restrictive practices that maximize profits at the expense of scholars and the public violate U.S. antirust laws (see Reuters). The publishers named as defendants in the suit include Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Taylor & …
Coronavirus - infojustice
WEB[Mike Palmedo] The U.S. International Trade Commission is writing a report (requested by USTR) investigating “whether to extend flexibilities under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) to COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics.”
Navigating Copyright in the Age of AI: Insights from WIPO’s Eighth ...
WEBSep 22, 2023 · By Andres Izquierdo. On September 20 and 21, 2023, the World Intellectual Property Organization hosted its Eighth Session of the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Frontier Technologies.Central to the discourse was the pivotal role of training data in shaping the capabilities of Generative AI, with a strong emphasis on its intersection with copyright law.