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Submissions To US Unilateral IP Enforcement Process Highlight Piracy, Health, and ACTA
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| IIPA drew commentary from internet rights
| groups and open source software proponents
| by saying that government procurement
| policies encouraging or mandating the use of
| open source software were akin to piracy.
| The IIPA suggested Brazil, India, Indonesia,
| the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam be put
| on USTR watch lists for policies favouring
| open source software, saying it limited the
| ability of proprietary software to compete.
|
| Philip Morris said the increasing number of
| countries proposing to adopt plain packaging
| for cigarettes, or having heath warnings
| covering more than 50 percent of cigarette
| packaging is worrisome, as it might infringe
| trademark rights, and encourage âillicit
| trade in tobacco products.â The cigarette
| maker called for their IP rights to be
| protected and enforced in a number of
| countries, arguing that âthese initiatives,
| which are not based on any solid scientific
| evidence that they contribute to legitimate
| public health objectives, would effectively
| constitute an expropriation of some of the
| worldâs most valuable trademarks without the
| payment of adequate compensation to
| manufacturers.â
|
| The Free Software Foundation called for an
| end to digital rights management software,
| which they said prevents users from freely
| enjoying their purchases and are almost
| always incompatible with free software.
|
| The National Association of Manufacturers
| (NAM) said that IP rights were wrongly
| considered to be mainly the concern of
| sectors such as pharmaceuticals, software,
| and entertainment. International
| counterfeiting and piracy is a âmainstream
| and Main Street issue for US manufacturers,â
| they said. The specific focus of NAM in 2010
| is âfour Csâ: counterfeiting, customs,
| cooperation internationally and China.
|
| Agricultural technology company Monsanto
| complained about patent backlogs in
| Argentina and Brazil, which it said delays
| their ability to enter the market and
| enforce rights on their products, and about
| government procurement that favours locally
| owned or registered IP in China. The
| European Unionâs recent trend to âunduly
| broaden breederâs exemptionsâ will undermine
| IP rights on plants, Monsanto said. Breeders
| exemptions are intended to protect plant
| varieties while not restricting follow-on
| innovation by people other than the original
| rights holder.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2010/03/05/9736/
European Parliament resolution on the transparency and state of play of the ACTA negotiations
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B7-0158/2010&language=EN
European Parliament resolution on transparency and the state of play of ACTA negotiations
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B7-0154/2010&language=EN
European ACTA Pressure Intensifies: Transparency Demands, EP Resolution
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| Europe has become the centre of a storm over
| the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
| Late last week, the Government of Sweden
| announced that the European Union was now
| uniformally seeking ACTA transparency. The
| announcement came just days after the Dutch
| leak that identified the specific countries
| opposed to a transparent approach. The
| revelations appear to have had a significant
| impact as all European Union countries are
| now said to support release of the ACTA
| text.
|
| This week the issue hits the European
| Parliament that includes an ACTA debate on
| Tuesday, followed by a landmark resolution
| that will be on the table on Wednesday. At
| the moment, there are two competing
| resolutions.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4847/125/
Recent:
he ACTA Conspiracy
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| What is often not understood, the planned
| ACTA is negotiated among a coalition of
| the willing. It is not primarily targeted
| at the nations which sit at the
| negotiations table but it aims at third
| nations, in particular emerging nations
| and BRIC. TRIPS included IPR âminimum
| standardsâ under the premise of their
| misuse as a barrier to trade. The current
| ACTA negotiations leave that premise
| totally out of sight, negotiators are not
| aware of the difference or argue that is
| was just enforcement, not substantive
| provisions. The actual usefulness of ACTA
| lies in its applications beyond its
| original members.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/the-acta-conspiracy/
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