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Category Archives: Intellectual Property
USPTO Report Finds Inadvertent Filesharing Threatens Personal, Government and Corporate Data
Press release: “…the Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a report that concludes that the distributors of five popular filesharing programs repeatedly deployed features that they knew or should have known could cause users to share files inadvertently. The report, Filesharing Programs and “Technological Features to Induce Users to Share,… Continue Reading
Global Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy Initiative
“Counterfeiting and piracy costs U.S. companies between $200-$250 billion a year and roughly 750,000 jobs to date. Nearly all industries are being affected, from apparel and footwear, high-tech industrial goods, medicines, autos and auto parts, food and beverages, and cosmetics to copyrighted works, including entertainment and business software, movies, music, and books. The U.S. Chamber… Continue Reading
Collection of Recently Released CRS Reports
12/20/06 U.S. Army and Marine Corps Equipment Requirements: Background and Issues for Congress 12/15/06 Incapacity of a Member of the Senate 12/15/06 U.S. Arms Sales: Agreements with and Deliveries to Major Clients, 1998-2005 12/12/06 The WTO, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Access to Medicines Controversy Continue Reading
GAO Identifies Factors Hampering Development of New Drug Applications
New Drug Development: Science, Business, Regulatory, and Intellectual Property Issues Cited as Hampering Drug Development Efforts, Full text GAO-07-49, and Highlights, November 17, 2006. “Recent scientific advances have raised expectations that an increasing number of new and innovative drugs would soon be developed to more effectively prevent, treat, and cure serious illnesses. However, industry analysts… Continue Reading
CA AG Announces Settlement with HP Over Pretexting
Press release: “Attorney General Bill Lockyer today announced Hewlett-Packard (HP) will finance a new law enforcement fund to fight violations of privacy and intellectual property rights, and adopt corporate governance reforms, under a $14.5 million settlement that resolves allegations the firm used false pretenses or pretexting to unlawfully access phone records during its… Continue Reading
Google Settles With Members of Copiepresse Suit in Belgium
Follow up to September 18, 2006 – posting Belgian Court Rules Against Google in Copyright Dispute: Google defends against Belgian newspaper copyright case – Launches spirited defense of caching, summarizing, fair use Google reaches deal with two Belgian press groups – They objected to how it indexes and displays their content on Google News Continue Reading
Article Examines Trade Secrets in Our Public Infrastructure
Levine, David S., “Secrecy and Unaccountability: Trade Secrets in Our Public Infrastructure”. Florida Law Review, Forthcoming. [via SSRN] “Trade secrecy – the intellectual property doctrine that allows businesses to keep commercially valuable information secret for a potentially unlimited amount of time – is increasingly intruding in the operation of our public infrastructure, like voting machines,… Continue Reading
2006 Report on Coordination of Intellectual Property Enforcement and Protection
2006 Report to the President and Congress on Coordination of Intellectual Property Enforcement and Protection (168 pages, PDF): “The report sets forth the actions and initiatives that the U.S. government has taken over the past year to combat the rising tide of global counterfeiting and piracy, and notes the importance of these efforts because of… Continue Reading
Proposed Framework For Evaluating Digital Rights Management
CDT press release: “Evaluating DRM: Building a Marketplace for the Convergent World” tackles the complicated subject of copyright protection technology, offering a clear set of metrics for consumers and product reviewers to consider when evaluating DRM-protected devices and services. The goal of the paper is to educate users about what questions to ask to determine… Continue Reading
Kennedy Library Archivist Article on Efforts to Retrieve Missing Kennedy Documents
Reclaiming Pieces of Camelot – How NARA and the JFK Library Recovered Missing Kennedy Documents and Artifacts, by James M. Roth: “Among the more celebrated individuals suspected of misappropriating presidential and federal documents is Evelyn Lincoln, former secretary to President John F. Kennedy. Through the efforts of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library staff, the… Continue Reading
New Sentencing Commission Guideline on IP Crimes
Press release: U.S. Sentencing Commission votes to promulgate emergency guideline amendment regarding intellectual property crimes. Continue Reading
