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Updates

• Science, Intellectual Property, and Legislation in the 110th Congress
• East Asian Nations Reiterate Commitment to Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights Cooperation
• Thailand Pursues Compulsory License for Anti-AIDS Drug
• "Philadelphia Consensus Statement" Calls upon WHO, Academia, to Bolster Poor Nations' Benefits from Health Research
• U.S. Commerce Secretary: China Must Strengthen Copyright Infringement Laws
• WIPO Announces Third Session for Provisional Committee on Development Agenda
• WTO Director-General Calls Upon Poor Nations to Enact Compulsory Licensing for Critical Patented Drugs
• WIPO Assemblies Meeting in Progress
• Patent Interference Appeals Against Biopharmaceutical Company Dropped
• WIPO Development Agenda Discussions Temporarily Stalled
• US-Morocco FTA Provisions for Intellectual Property Rules Draw Attention from the United Nations
• Proposed Amendment to WTO Could Nullify Existing Patents
• Patent Dispute Arises From Discovery Made Over 20 Years Ago
• Office of the United States Trade Representative Releases Draft Text for Proposed U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement
• April 26: Sixth World Intellectual Property Day Observed With Activities Throughout the World
• WIPO Initiative to Harmonize Patent Systems Delayed Until September
• UK Patent Office Establishes Mediation Service
• Largest Commercial Library of Open Source Software Code to Expand; Better Open Source IP Compliance Expected
• U.S. Copyright Office Releases Report on "Orphan Works"
• European Commission to Solicit Comments on Future Patent Policy
• U.S.-Thai Trade Talks Muddled Over Intellectual Property Rights Provisions
• Traditional Knowledge Digital Library Seeks to Prevent Biopiracy
• Agreement with Korean Intellectual Property Office to Lessen Burden on USPTO
• Audit Report of WIPO Finds No Acts of Fraud Among Staff
• Indian Drug Maker Pursues Legal Strategy to Market Generic Pharmaceuticals
• U.S. Critical of Israel's Patent Extension Policy
• Amendment to WTO's Intellectual Property Rules Eases Poor Countries' Access to Generic Drugs
• Intellectual Property Protection Stalls U.S.-Andean Nation Trade Talks
• Aeronautical Data to be Removed from Public Domain
• WTO Grants Poorest Nations Less Time than Requested to Adhere to International Intellectual Property Rules
• Visit the Patent Commons Project Online
• Forthcoming United Nations Document Highlights Intellectual Property Rights and Human Rights
• New International Initiative to Foster Access to Publicly Funded Research Results
• China Second only to U.S. in Ownership of Health-Based Nanotechnology Patents
• BioShield II Legislation Closer to Compromise on Drug Patenting
• India Objects to U.S. “Contract-based Approach” in World Trade Organization Negotiations
• Representative Brown Introduces Bill to Enact Compulsory Licensing During Healthcare Crises
• Senator Schumer Calls for “Immediate Licensing” to Allow U.S. Manufacturers to Produce the Antiviral Drug Tamiflu
• BBC Develops Open Source Internet Video Platform
• European Commission Remains Vague on Biotechnology Patenting; Industry Disappointed
• South Centre and CIEL: Quarterly Update on IP and Development
• White House Creates New IP Enforcement Position
• Emory Sells AIDS Drug Rights for Record $525 Million
• Patent Reform Report Released by Congressional Research Service
• US and India Agree on Intellectual Property Rights for Collaborative Research
• Brazil and Abbott Reach Deal on Kaletra
• Europe Rejects Software Patent Directive
• Patent Reform Bills Move to Full House Judiciary Committee
• Presidential Advisors Comment on Nanotechnology IP
• UK Research Councils Require Free Access to Journal Articles
• Brazil May Break Patent on HIV/AIDS Drug
• ETC Reports on Impact of Nanotechnology Patents for Global South
• Supreme Court Interprets Broader Exemption for Drug Research
• The Patent Act of 2005 Introduced in House
• WHO Holds Workshop and Open Forum on IP, Innovation and Health
• Brazil’s Lower House Votes to Suspend AIDS Drug Patents
• University Publishers Question Google Plan for Digital Book Copies
• University of Pennsylvania Strategizes to Boost Tech Transfer Revenue
• WHO Studies on IP and Health Available Online
• Debate on Bioshield II Patent Provisions at Center for American Progress
• Celera Will Make DNA Information Free
• Patent Trolls in the News
• New Patent Bill Is Expected In Congress
• Human Genealogy Study Will Sample Indiginous Peoples' DNA
• IBM Will Share More Patented Inventions in New Strategy
• Japan Establishes High Court for IP Disputes
• House and Senate Hearings Will Address Patent Reform
• Israeli Scientist's AIDS Discovery Languishes in IP Disputes
• Federal Circuit Court to Decide If Expressed Sequence Tags Are Patentable
• Merck v. Integra Briefs Available Online
• Senators Propose Patent Extensions to Spur Biodefense R&D
• WIPO Development Agenda, Developing Countries Submit New Proposals
• Through Website, Scientists Can Tackle Companies' R&D Challenges
• Study Finds Many Human Gene Patent Claims Fall Short of Legal Standard
• European Policy for Intellectual Property Conference: Papers Available
• Graham Dutfield Editorial: "The US and Europe Are Intellectual Property Fundamentalists"
• EPO Upholds Revocation of Neem Patent
• EU Ministers Support Software Patent Law
• Amicus Brief on Research Exemption Submitted to Supreme Court
• Proposed Medical R&D Treaty Would Provide Alternative Incentives for Innovation
• Model IP Agreements Aim to Encourage University-Industry Collaboration in Britain
• Court Rules Against Nobel Laureate in Yale Patent Dispute
• OECD Issues Draft Guidelines for Licensing Genetic Inventions
• USPTO Rejects Patent on Human-like Organism
• New Plant Biotechnology Will Be Open-Source
• USPTO Would Keep Fees in FY 2006, According to President’s Budget Request
• NIH Asks Grantees to Voluntarily Release Published Articles
• New Legal Center Will Protect Open-Source Software Projects
• Brazil Reshapes Debate on Intellectual Property
• A Hacker Manifesto: Creating Class vs. Possessing Class
• Biodiverse Countries Ask for Treaty on Access and Benefit-Sharing
• USPTO Names First University Rep. to Patent Public Advisory Committee
• Open Source Biology Evolves
• Sandia Publicizes IP Available for Licensing
• US Pressures Guatemala to Revise Data Protection Law
• China Must Criminalize IP Violations, Says US Commerce Secretary
• Supreme Court Will Hear Merck v. Integra
• Counterfeiting and Piracy in China - New York Times Magazine
• Digital Library to Protect Indigenous Knowledge
• Intellectual Property Discussions Can Be Kept Secret By CA Stem Cell Agency
• Nanotechnology Patents Inject Uncertainty into Emerging Industry
• World Bank Releases Two Books on IP and Development
• April 2005: WIPO Meeting on Establishing a Development Agenda
• Germany Passes New Biotech Patent Law
• NY Times Op-Ed: More Academics Should Patent
• New Open Access Initiative from Publishers and Advocacy Groups
• NIH Requests Comments on Best Practices for Licensing Genomic Inventions
• Profits from Indigenous Knowledge Must Be Shared: Opinion – The Times of India
• WHO Initiates 23 Studies on IPRs, Innovation and Public Health
• GSK Tells Blair to Press G8 for Patent Reform
• Guatemala Repeals Data Exclusivity Rule
• IP Owners Oppose USPTO Fee Increase, Unless Profits Remain in Agency
• University of New Mexico Wins IP Dispute
• Journal Publishers Against "one size fits all" Package
• EU Announces Strategy to Halt Piracy and Counterfeiting Abroad
• Patent Challenge Against Columbia University Dismissed
• Creative Commons Hires Science Director
• Egypt to Establish Tech Transfer Centers That Provide IP Help
• Epogen Patent Ruling: UK Will Not Allow Overly Broad Claims
• UNEP and WIPO Release Study on Access and Benefit-Sharing
• European Commission Proposes Generic Export Regulation
• Malaysia Considers Bayh-Dole Equivalent
• Mexican Universities Could Gain Right to Profit From Inventions
• NAS Committee on IPRs in Genetic and Protein-Related Inventions: Meeting Transcript and Presentations Available
• “Innovation Sails Free”: Newsweek Article on Open Source Science
• Food Scientist Wins Infringement Suit Against ConAgra
• Greenpeace Challenges Stem Cell Patent
• India Plans Policy to Attract Biotech Investors
• Malaysian State Acts to Thwart Biopirates
• UK Court Revokes Amgen Patent
• Venture Capitalists Support CA Stem Cell Initiative
• Judge Rules for Amgen Patents
• Digene Settles Patent Dispute over HPV Test
• Genomics and Public Health: New Report on Science for the MDGs
• Patents in Pharmaceutical R&D: Discussion in Bulletin of the WHO
• Open Source Biotech Starts in Earnest
• WIPO Agrees to Consider Development Concerns
• Funding Pharmaceutical R&D: Alternatives to the Patent System
• NIH Open Access Estimated to Cost $2.5 Million
• Point of View: Open Access to Journals Won’t Lower Prices
• Book Faults Patent Reforms for Slowing Innovation
• Zambia Issues Compulsory License for AIDS Drug
• WIPO Members Will Meet Next Week
• Pubpat Challenges Pfizer's Lipitor Patent
• WIPO “Development Agenda” Demanded by Brazil and Argentina
• China Considering Compulsory Licenses for AIDS Drugs
• Kenya Accuses U.S. Company of Biopiracy
• Chiron Settles HIV Test Patent Dispute With Roche
• South African Government Says Country "Needs to File More Patents"
• NIH Requests Comments on Open Access Policy
• ALRC Recommends Gene Patenting Changes for Australia
• Congressman Brown Asks Thompson to Reverse NIH Norvir Decision
• USPTO Deals Second Blow to Eolas Browser Patents
• Acacia Demands License Fees for Internet Streaming Media
• IBM Pledges No Patent Attacks Against Linux
• NIH Decides Not to Intervene on Norvir Pricing
• Hewlett-Packard Rolls Out Linux Laptop
• I.B.M. Will Reveal Source Code Worth $85 Million
• Merck Licenses AIDS Drug to South African Generic Manufacturer
• Poor Countries Can Import Generics Without E.U. Rule
• Chinese Challenge Diabetes Drug Patent
• NIH Director Meets with Publishers on Open Access
• Open Access Language Appears in NIH Appropriations Report
• Language Barrier Slows Access to Generic Drugs
• Text of U.S. Representatives' Letter on FTAs
• WHO Solicits Comments on IP and Health Plan
• Members of British Parliament Support Open Access to Research
• US-Morocco FTA: Strongest IP Protection Yet
• Rights to Decaf Coffee Plant in Dispute
• China Overturns Viagra Patent
• EFF: The patent hit list is out
• European Patent Office Upholds Harvard Mouse Patent
• Senate Passes Three Bills that Affect Intellectual Property
• Open Access Publishing Continues to Stir Debate
• Mylan Sues FDA Over Generic Pain-Relief Patch
• Chiron Relaxes License Policy for Hepatitis C Genome
• African Agricultural Technology Foundation Opens in Kenya
• Draft text of US-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement
• Japan Establishes First IP Court
• Singapore Boosts Intellectual Property Protection
• Creative Commons Introduces Licenses for Europe
• Open-Source Drug Discovery Proposed for Neglected Diseases
• Fifty-Eight Senators Urge Pres. Bush to Expand Stem Cell Policy
• Aetna Drops Antitrust Suit Against Abbott
• Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and U.S.-Bahrain FTA
• Both Sides Speak Out at Norvir March-In Meeting
• Speakers for NIH May 25 Norvir March-in meeting
• Sens Hollings, McCain, and Schumer ask FTC to inquire into Norvir price increase
• PLoS Launches Open Access Medical Journal
• ITU Survey Finds Global Support for WSIS Targets
• Six House Republicans Ask for Hearings on Norvir Pricing
• HHS Sec. Declares Drug Importation "Helpful, Inevitable"
• The National Academies' National Research Council Asks Congress for Research Protection Legislation
• Federal Hearing on Importing Cheaper Drugs
• WSIS II Tunisia Prepartory Meeting Announced
• Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) ends without IP Agreement
• News from the WSIS website!
• World Summit on Infomation in Society (WSIS) 2005

Legislation

• Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006
• The Patent Reform Act of 2005
• Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention (ART) Act of 2004
• Cooperative Research and Technology Enhancement (CREATE) Act of 2004
• US Trademark and Patent Fee Modernization Act of 2003

Hearings

Publications

• A Fair Deal for the Future: Flexibilities Under TRIPS
• Copyright Issues in Digital Media
• Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications: Proceedings of a Symposium
• Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications: Report of a Symposium
• Facilitating humanitarian access to pharmaceutical and agricultural innovation
• Financing Drug Research: What are the Issues?
• Genes and Ingenuity: Gene Patenting and Human Health
• Has the Implementation of the TRIPS Agreement in Latin America and the Caribbean Produced Intellectual Property Legislation that Favours Public Health?
• Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development
• Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium
• Ownership of knowledge - the role of patents in pharmaceutical R&D
• SPARC Letter to NIH on Open Access
• Scientific Publications: Free for All?
• The Effects of Patenting in the AAAS Scientific Community
• The facts about open access: A study of the financial and non-financial effects of alternative business models for scholarly journals

Meetings

• 15 Feb 2007 14:00: Oversight Hearing on American Innovation at Risk: “The Case for Patent Reform”
• 17 Jan 2007 8:30: Special Session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR): First Session
• 16 Jan 2007 8:30: Symposium: Effects of Intellectual Property Protections on Scientific Research
• 30 Nov 2006 8:30: Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore: Tenth Session
• 12 Jul 2006: USPTO Conference on Protecting Your Intellectual Property
• 26 Jun 2006 9:00: Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society: 10th Meeting
• 12 Jun 2006 10:00: Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Special Session
• 24 Apr 2006 8:30: Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore: Ninth Session
• 21 Apr 2006 12:00: Access to Knowledge (A2K) Conference
• 26 Mar 2006 16:30: Washington Academy of Sciences-CapSci 2006 SIPPI Symposium
• 17 Feb 2006 14:00: AAAS-SIPPI Annual Meeting: Briefing on Effects of Intellectual Property on Academic Research
• 15 Dec 2005 10:30: State Department Information Meeting on the World Summit on the Information Society
• 17 Nov 2005 14:00: Report Release and Public Briefing: IP Rights in Genomic and Proteomic Research
• 27 May 2005 8:30: Gene Patents and Public Health
• 26 May 2005: Best Practices in Transfer of Science and Technology
• 11 Mar 2005 8:30: Biotechnology & Intellectual Property: Current Controversies
• 19 Feb 2005 13:00: AAAS Annual Meeting - Science & Intellectual Property Briefing
• 18 Feb 2005: Town Meeting on Patent System Reform
• 10 Jan 2005 8:00: Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy
• 20 Oct 2004 12:00: Gene Patenting and Human Health - Lunchtime Talk
• 7 Oct 2004 13:30: Conference on the Accession of the European Community to the Madrid Protocol
• 4 Oct 2004: BIO IP Counsel Committee Meeting
• 18 Sep 2004: Patent Policy: Using, Abusing and Reforming
• 10 Sep 2004 10:30: World Wide Digital Revolution
• 8 Sep 2004 12:45: "Patents and Biotechnology: A U.S. Patent System for the 21st Century" Lunch talk
• 5 Aug 2004 8:00: National Academies: IP in Genomic and Protein Research and Innovation
• 16 Jul 2004: International Intellectual Property Law Conference
• 17 Jun 2004: Technology Frontiers and Global Power, Wealth, and Conflict
• 25 May 2004 9:00: NIH Norvir March-in Meeting
• 17 May 2004: WIPO Comes to Silicon Valley
• 5 May 2004 10:00: Fifth listening session on drug importation
• 5 Apr 2004 8:30: Global Access to Essential Learning Tools
• 12 Feb 2004: AAAS Annual Meeting
• 9 Dec 2003: WSIS
• 4 Sep 2003 8:30: Science and Technology in the New World of International Intellectual Property