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2007 : l’année de la réforme des brevets américains ?
Par Sarah Lai Stirland pour Intellectual Property Watch Les efforts des entreprises américaines de technologie de l’information visant à remanier le système national de brevets d’invention ont peu avancé lors du Congrès américain en 2006, notamment en raison de l’opposition…
Reforma del sistema de patentes de EE.UU.: ¿Se aprobará en 2007?
Por Sarah Lai Stirland para Intellectual Property Watch La pujante intentona de las compañías de tecnología de la información en los Estados Unidos para transformar el sistema de patentes de su país avanzó poco en el Congreso estadounidense en 2006…
US Seeks Review Of WHO Publication Policy After Report On US Trade Deals
By Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen A senior United States health official in Washington is urging the head of the World Health Organization to withdraw a WHO-sponsored publication that is critical of US trade policy, charging possible organisational incompetence and calling…
US Patent Reform: Could 2007 Be The Year?
By Sarah Lai Stirland for Intellectual Property Watch US information technology companies’ push to overhaul their country’s patent system made little progress in the US Congress in 2006 due to pushback from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. But the hiring…
US May Remove Trade Benefits For Developing Countries
US Trade Representative Susan Schwab announced on 7 August a review of a key programme offering duty-free access for products exported by developing countries to the US market. The review will look at whether key trading partners still should be…
Groups Decry Impact Of IP And Health Terms In US Trade Agreements
By Martin Vaughan for Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC – Public health activists are condemning recent terms agreed to by Colombia, Peru and Central American countries in bilateral trade negotiations with the United States, that bind those countries to offer…
Opposition Heavy To US Environmental Health Agency Plan To Privatise Open Access Journal
By Steve Gibb for Intellectual Property Watch WASHINGTON, DC – The director of the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is facing overwhelming opposition to a plan to privatise an open-access environmental science journal NIEHS publishes, according to…
Public Health Groups Sue US Government For Lack Of Consultation
A United States law firm representing public health groups filed suit against the US government on 14 December for a failure to be consulted by industry-heavy government advisory groups on trade policy. The case was filed in US District Court…
US Congressional Delegation In Geneva Focuses On Trade, Avian Flu
Members of the United States House of Representatives visited Geneva this week to learn more about ongoing trade negotiations and policy related to the possible avian influenza pandemic. The bipartisan group of Republicans and Democrats met on 28 November with…
US Privatisation Plan For Open-Access Journal Challenged
By Steve Gibb for Intellectual Property Watch Washington, DC–A US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) plan to privatise a prestigious open-access environmental science journal is drawing criticism from Democrats in the US Congress and activists who say public…
U.S. Patent Reform Effort Narrowed in Congress; Could Resurface In Supreme Court
By Sarah Lai Stirland for Intellectual Property Watch A wall of opposition from the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and independent inventor communities this year gutted some of the most controversial provisions from an ambitious patent reform bill introduced in July in the…