Nick Wadhams, Bloomberg; U.S.-China Feud Ensnares Obscure UN Intellectual Property Agency
"“The race for WIPO leadership has become the moment the U.S. woke up to
the fact China is eating our lunch in the multilateral system and that
great-power competition will be fought out in many theaters, including
UN agencies,” said Daniel Runde, the director of the Project on
Prosperity and Development at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies. “WIPO may seem obscure, but it’s a standard-maker and holds
hundreds of billions of our trade secrets in its digital vaults.”"
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Friday, February 14, 2020
Coronavirus: The global race to patent a remedy; The Mercury News, February 13, 2020
Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News; Coronavirus: The global race to patent a remedy
"As a lethal coronavirus triggers a humanitarian crisis in the world’s most populous nation, who owns the rights to a potential cure?
The Bay Area’s pharmaceutical powerhouse Gilead Sciences is first in line for a Chinese patent for its drug called Remdesivir, which shows promise against the broad family of coronaviruses.
But now a team of Chinese scientists say they’ve improved and targeted its use — and, in a startling move, have also filed for a patent...
“Each side wants to be the entity that came up with the treatment for coronavirus,” said Jacob Sherkow, professor of law at the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School. “This is not a knockoff of a Louis Vuitton handbag,”...
Patent protection — and market exclusivity — is the lifeblood of drug companies such as Gilead, creating the incentive to find, test and market a medicine."
"As a lethal coronavirus triggers a humanitarian crisis in the world’s most populous nation, who owns the rights to a potential cure?
The Bay Area’s pharmaceutical powerhouse Gilead Sciences is first in line for a Chinese patent for its drug called Remdesivir, which shows promise against the broad family of coronaviruses.
But now a team of Chinese scientists say they’ve improved and targeted its use — and, in a startling move, have also filed for a patent...
“Each side wants to be the entity that came up with the treatment for coronavirus,” said Jacob Sherkow, professor of law at the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School. “This is not a knockoff of a Louis Vuitton handbag,”...
Patent protection — and market exclusivity — is the lifeblood of drug companies such as Gilead, creating the incentive to find, test and market a medicine."
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Copyright could be the next way for Congress to take on Big Tech; The Verge, February 13, 2020
, The Verge; Copyright could be the next way for Congress to take on Big Tech
The 1998 DMCA attempted to outline how copyright should
work on the then-nascent internet, where you could almost freely and
infinitely copy a piece of media. But it’s been widely criticized by
people with very different stances on intellectual property."
"By the end of the year, Tillis — who chairs the Senate’s
intellectual property subcommittee — plans to draft changes to the DMCA.
He and co-chair Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) kicked off the process this
week with an introductory hearing, speaking to eight legal experts and
former congressional staffers. The hearing helped set the stage to
re-fight some long-running battles over the balance between protecting
copyrighted content and keeping the internet open — but at a time where
internet companies are already facing a large-scale backlash.
WIPO Impact of Artificial Intelligence on IP Policy: Draft Issues Paper. (December 13, 2019). [Comments due by 2/14/20]
WIPO Impact of Artificial Intelligence on IP Policy: Draft Issues Paper. (December 13, 2019). [Comments due by 2/14/20]
WIPO and the US Copyright Office Examine Artificial Intelligence and, to Lesser Extent, Intellectual Property; Info Justice, February 11, 2020
Sean Flynn and Andres Izquierdo, Info Justice; WIPO and the US Copyright Office Examine Artificial Intelligence and, to Lesser Extent, Intellectual Property
"On February 5, 2020, the U.S. Copyright Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) co-sponsored a well-attended event on Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The full-day event took an in-depth look at the development and operation of artificial intelligence (“AI”). It paid substantially less attention to the full range of intellectual property issues raised by this new field.
The single-day event featured visual artists, audiovisual producers, music composers and executives, software developers, guilds of diverse artistic interests, people developing artificial intelligence, and (mostly perhaps) copyright lawyers."
"On February 5, 2020, the U.S. Copyright Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) co-sponsored a well-attended event on Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The full-day event took an in-depth look at the development and operation of artificial intelligence (“AI”). It paid substantially less attention to the full range of intellectual property issues raised by this new field.
The single-day event featured visual artists, audiovisual producers, music composers and executives, software developers, guilds of diverse artistic interests, people developing artificial intelligence, and (mostly perhaps) copyright lawyers."
Why Is the U.S. Surrendering the Global IP System to China?; National Review, February 12, 2020
Tom Gionvanetti, National Review; Why Is the U.S. Surrendering the Global IP System to China?
"What a coup it will be for China to gain control over the global IP system at the same time that the U.S. is pressuring China over IP theft — and what a monumental miscalculation by those President Trump has trusted to further one of his key foreign-policy goals. Talk about playing the long game vs. the short game.
The election for WIPO’s top spot is on March 7. Candidates for the directorship remain from Japan, Singapore, and Colombia, and all of these would be superior choices from the perspective of the U.S. and other nations that create the kinds of innovative products that are targets of Chinese espionage and theft. But only immediate attention from the White House can prevent WIPO from becoming dominated by China, which would pose risks to the entire global IP system, and thus to U.S. security and innovation."
"What a coup it will be for China to gain control over the global IP system at the same time that the U.S. is pressuring China over IP theft — and what a monumental miscalculation by those President Trump has trusted to further one of his key foreign-policy goals. Talk about playing the long game vs. the short game.
The election for WIPO’s top spot is on March 7. Candidates for the directorship remain from Japan, Singapore, and Colombia, and all of these would be superior choices from the perspective of the U.S. and other nations that create the kinds of innovative products that are targets of Chinese espionage and theft. But only immediate attention from the White House can prevent WIPO from becoming dominated by China, which would pose risks to the entire global IP system, and thus to U.S. security and innovation."
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
The Public Domain Is the Rule, Copyright Is the Exception; Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), January 23, 2020
Corynne McSherry, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); The Public Domain Is the Rule, Copyright Is the Exception
"Most of our culture, knowledge, and history isn’t "owned" by anyone at all—it is available for all to use in the vibrant and ever-expanding public domain. This domain is populated by formerly copyrighted material and material that was never copyrightable in the first place."
"Most of our culture, knowledge, and history isn’t "owned" by anyone at all—it is available for all to use in the vibrant and ever-expanding public domain. This domain is populated by formerly copyrighted material and material that was never copyrightable in the first place."
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