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EU Report Finds Fault With US Barriers To IP
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| The European Commission on Monday released a report finding fault with a
| number of United States practices related to intellectual property rights
| policy, on copyright, geographical indications, trademarks and patents. The
| report is an answer, one might say, to the annual US Special 301 report that
| criticises US trading partners it deems unilaterally to be insufficiently
| protecting its companies’ IP rights.
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| And on patents, the US government frequently fails to comply with Article 31
| of the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
| (TRIPS), which requires governments that use patents to promptly inform the
| patent right holders, the EU said. This means the right holders are likely to
| miss the opportunity to initiate an administrative claim process.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/07/27/european-union-report-finds-fault-with-us-barriers-to-ip/
Recent:
harmfulpatents.org
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| More than 20 years after medical expert systems were first developed, the
| USPTO issued two patents simply on the concept of using a computer to help
| physicians choose medical treatments. A company that purchased these patents
| claims that "the diagnosis and treatment of most chronic diseases will fall
| under the claims of these patents." Already it has filed patent infringement
| suits against seven companies in three years and it threatened to sue a
| university for hosting a freely available HIV database. Perhaps most
| startling of all, that same university -- where much of the seminal research
| on expert systems took place -- entered into a licensing agreement intended
| to limit the use of the HIV database, which had been created by one of its
| own faculty.
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http://www.harmfulpatents.org/
Do Patents Kill? A Strange Twist in the Ramkumar vs Samsung Saga
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| A number of papers report that a death in Chennai could be connected with the
| ongoing Ramkumar vs Samsung (and others) patent litigation, a litigation that
| we have been tracking on this blog.
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http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com/2009/05/do-patents-kill-strange-twist-in.html
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