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Further News Concerning the EU Project "Enhancing The Patent System In Europe"
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| With Document 9549/09, on May 08, 2009, the Czech EU Presidency has addressed
| the EU Permanent Representatives Committee COREPER (Part 1) concerning the
| preparation of the EU Competitiveness Council of May 28 - 29, 2009 with
| regard to the project titled Enhancing the patent system in Europe
| concerning:
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| * Proposal for a Regulation of the Council on the Community patent, and
| * Draft Agreement creating a Unified Patent Litigation System.
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| At its meeting on December 01, 2008, the EU Competitiveness Council had taken
| note of a progress report prepared by the French Presidency (Document
| 16006/08) and instructed the Working Party to continue work on the patent
| litigation system and the Community patent with a view to finding solutions
| and reaching agreement in both areas as soon as possible. In line with this
| Council mandate, the Czech Presidency has convened six Working Party meetings
| so far, with about equal time having been devoted to the unified patent
| litigation system and the Community patent.
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http://www.ipjur.com/blog2/index.php?/archives/73-Further-News-Concerning-the-EU-Project-Enhancing-The-Patent-System-In-Europe.html
PCT II - A Step Towards A "World Patent"?
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| Recently WIPO has published Document PCT/WG/2/12 for the second session of
| the PCT Working Group to be held in Geneva from May 04 to 08, 2009.
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| The above-cited document contains a proposal by the United States Patent and
| Trademark Office (USPTO) for a comprehensive revision of the international
| patent system which would result in the establishment of a new Patent
| Cooperation Treaty, PCT II....According to the Document it is envisioned that
| applications receiving a positive report at the end of the
| international/national processing would essentially result in automatic
| patent grants in all member States.
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http://www.ipjur.com/blog2/index.php?/archives/71-PCT-II-A-Step-Towards-A-World-Patent.html#extended
Recent:
Litigation of High-Tech Patents
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| While each patent dispute is unique, most fit the profile of one of a limited
| number of patent litigation stories. A dispute between an independent
| inventor and a large company, for instance, is often cast in “David v.
| Goliath” terms. When two large companies fight over patents, in contrast,
| they are said to be playing the “sport of kings.” Some corporations engage
| in “defensive patenting” in order to deter others from suing them. Patent
| licensing and enforcement entities who sue have been labeled “trolls.”
| Finally, observers of the patent system call the use of patent litigation to
| impose or exploit financial distress “patent predation.”
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1396319
Golan Case May Put US In Violation Of International Copyright Treaties
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| By limiting copyright restoration, the ruling might prevent the US from
| fulfilling its obligations under the Berne Convention and the World Trade
| Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
| Rights (TRIPS).
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/05/08/golan-case-may-put-us-in-violation-of-international-copyright-treaties/
EFF sues Obama administration for promised access to secret copyright treaty
documents
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| Rebecca from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "The U.S. government is
| still blocking the release of information about a secret intellectual
| property trade agreement with broad implications for privacy and innovation
| around the world, despite the Obama administration's promises to run a more
| open government. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) could
| establish far-reaching customs regulations over Internet traffic in the guise
| of anti-counterfeiting measures, but no one knows for sure the state of this
| pact, as the government is hiding the details. EFF is calling on the feds to
| change their minds, and will keep fighting this in court."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/06/eff-sues-obama-admin.html
European Commission On ACTA: TRIPS Is Floor Not Ceiling
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| The EU Commission is “committed to improve the international legal framework
| for IP protection” and sees “ACTA as one way to reach that goal,” Devigne
| said. There was no intention to duplicate TRIPS. Rather, “we want to go
| beyond it,” he said, adding, “TRIPS is the floor, not the ceiling.”
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/04/22/european-commission-on-acta-trips-is-floor-not-ceiling/
The ACTA draft treaty is covering patent infringement
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| Wikileaks has published some drafts of the secret ACTA treaty, which aims to
| give better guns to Patent Trolls. The draft mentions that it covers all the
| rights covered by TRIPS, so it will cover also patents.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-147082/the-acta-draft-treaty-is-covering-patent-infringement
Goodbye WIPO, Hello ACTA?
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| What is really remarkable about this is that Greve can even be asking WIPO to
| consider free software and open standards: a few years ago, such a thing
| would have amounted to blasphemy.
| Sadly, there is another sign that WIPO is becoming more accommodating to the
| ideas behind free software: the fact that there seems to be a move to come
| up with an alternative forum for promoting intellectual monopolies where it
| will not be so easy to participate.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2101&blogid=14
New ACTA copyright treaty dodges the UN, poor countries and activists
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| Michael Geist sez, "The World Intellectual Property Organization may be best
| known for the Internet treaties that led to the DMCA, but in recent years
| groups like EFF, KEI, and Public Knowledge has helped to open things up and
| move toward a Development Agenda that better balances international
| intellectual property policy. That progress may be threatened by the
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which officials now acknowledge is
| designed to exclude WIPO, developing countries, and NGOs."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/14/new-acta-copyright-t.html
Leaked ACTA Draft: More Power to the RIAA
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| A recent draft of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
| (ACTA) surfaced on Wikileaks this weekend. Among other things, the draft aims
| to strengthen the power and rights of the entertainment industry and other
| copyright holders, by letting them choose how they want to be compensated for
| copyright infringements.
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http://torrentfreak.com/leaked-acta-draft-more-power-to-the-riaa-090414/
Classified US, Japan and EU ACTA trade agreement drafts, 2009
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| The file presents US, Japan and EU drafts of the controversial international
| copyright and patent trade agreement, ACTA ("Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement"). The documents were obtained by Wikileaks staff.
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http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Classified_US%2C_Japan_and_EU_ACTA_trade_agreement_drafts%2C_2009
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