House Hearing Sharply Critical of Search Engines that Willingly Promote and Finance Piracy
Today, Congress began asking why search engines are allowed to willingly promote and finance piracy. In a Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, Former Chairman of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee Howard Berman led [...]
ACT Applauds Work of IPEC to Protect Small Business Entrepreneurs
The Association for Competitive Technology, representing over 3,000 small business technology entrepreneurs, continues to applaud the work of the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC). Marshalling the resources of the administration [...]
Redesigning With Personality
Check out this link format post, the custom fields will only ask you for the title of the link, and the link itself. Then you can of course also add [...]
Breaking the deadlock on EU patents
Editorial published at EUObserver. Contrary to what one might think, the idea of an EU patent is not the latest fashion. Negotiations started in the glorious 1970s, when we all [...]
At Long Last: Progress on a Unified European Patent
The European Parliament gave its consent on Tuesday for a common EU patent system using a seldom-used political procedure called enhanced cooperation to break 40 years of deadlock on the [...]
The IPEC’s Annual Report: Deterring Online Piracy and Counterfeiting via Cooperation, COICA, Special 301 and Legislation
Victoria Espinel, President Obama’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC), has released her 2010 Annual Report on Intellectual Property Enforcement. The Annual Report provides an overview of the Administration’s past and [...]