by Birgit Clark at The IPKat The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is back in the news and matters are as confusing and opaque as ever (see the IPKat’s earlier reports here). Last week 22 of 27 EU countries (including the UK) signed up to ACTA (in Tokyo… of all places) and it is now for the European Parliament to approve the [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...By William New, Intellectual Property Watch Europeans came out by the thousands this week to protest the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), as it goes before the parliament and the remaining governments that have not yet signed on. But a large number of industry associations sent a letter pushing officials to carefully consider the agreement before dismissing [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...By William New, Intellectual Property Watch A new report from the United States Department of Commerce on competitiveness and innovation details the US need to boost innovation in order to compete globally and grow the economy. But while it stresses the need for strong intellectual property rights enforcement to create high-priced monopolies as an incentive for [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...中华人民共和国工业和信息化部令 第20号 《规范互联网信息服务市场秩序若干规定》已经2011年12月7日中华人民共和国工业和信息化部第22次部务会议审议通过,现予公布,自2012年3月15日起施行。
No Comments. Continue Reading...By Raymond Nimmer When the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) was being debated nationally in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, it became part of a wildly intense debate about the nature of contract law that ultimately led to the rejection of two misguided efforts to revise ancient UCC Article 2. UCITA barely survived vitriolic and often dishonest [...]
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