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Por Steven Seidenberg para Intellectual Property Watch Estados Unidos no toma una decisión. Por un lado, ha firmado al menos nueve tratados internacionales que prevén explícitamente un nuevo derecho digital para los titulares de derechos de autor: el derecho exclusivo…
By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch Formal negotiations on an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) are expected to commence next week in Geneva, according to a European Commission official, even as a leaked United States trade office paper is drawing…
By Kaitlin Mara The next United States president must make access to knowledge and technology policy a priority, participants at a conference on computers, freedom, and privacy protection last week told representatives of the leading presidential campaigns. Campaign representatives for…
By Steven Seidenberg for Intellectual Property Watch
The United States can't make up its mind. On one hand, the country has signed at least nine international agreements that explicitly provide a new digital right for copyright owners: the exclusive right to make their works electronically available to the public. On the other hand, the US courts are uncertain whether this "making available" right exists under US law.
US courts have split over this issue, with some recognising the right and others rejecting it. But a new trend may be emerging. In the last four months, four US federal district courts have ruled that "making available" is not a right recognised by US copyright law.
par Liza Porteus Viana pour Intellectual Property Watch Bien qu’en apparence, la réforme des brevets soit entrée dans une impasse au Congrès américain, l’administration Bush intensifie ses efforts pour qu’un projet de loi soit achevé au cours de la période…
Por Liza Porteus Viana para Intellectual Property Watch Pese a un aparente estancamiento en la reforma del régimen de patentes en el Congreso de los Estados Unidos, la Administración Bush sigue presionando para que se finalice la aprobación de un…
Par Drew Clark pour Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC – Le Président de la Cour d‘appel chargée de statuer sur les litiges concernant les brevets a accepté de reconsidérer la décision rendue en 1998 qui admettait la possibilité de breveter…
Por Drew Clark para Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC.- El principal tribunal de apelación de Estados Unidos que entiende en litigios de patentes reconsideró de lleno si la decisión de Estados Unidos, adoptada en 1998, de dar mayor cabida a…
By Liza Porteus Viana for Intellectual Property Watch Despite an apparent stalemate on patent reform in the United States Congress, the Bush administration is still pushing for a bill to be completed this congressional session. Speaking in California’s Silicon Valley…
By Drew Clark for Intellectual Property Watch
WASHINGTON, DC - The chief US appeals court that rules on patent disputes has squarely reconsidered whether the United States' 1998 decision to allow greater berth for business method patents was the right intellectual property policy.
Adding heft to the position of changing course on business method patents was the US Patent and Trademark Office, which challenged a patent application on a method for financial hedging by inventors Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw.
The USPTO urged the court to reject the patent as ineligible subject matter. It offered a standard for invalidating the patent that demonstrated a dramatic change of course for the US government over the past 10 years.
By Kaitlin Mara and William New
In the People column: the US mission IP team is undergoing a complete transformation, while a former top US IP negotiator in Geneva returned last week in a biotech industry suit, and still another US negotiator appears poised to follow.
By Dugie Standeford for Intellectual Property Watch In an issue that may be rising internationally, legislation pending in the United States Senate and House to free up use of “orphan works” whose copyright owners cannot be found has won strong…