This Week in Intellectual Property, May 25th
News and Commentary A revised version of the proposed TRIPS waiver on the requirements to implement and enforce intellectual property rights has been introduced. The new text sets a firmer [...]
News and Commentary A revised version of the proposed TRIPS waiver on the requirements to implement and enforce intellectual property rights has been introduced. The new text sets a firmer [...]
News and Commentary The Niskanen Center has come out in support of the Biden Administration's announcement in support of a TRIPS waiver for intellectual property enforcement during the COVID pandemic. [...]
News and Commentary It's finally out! After nearly 10 years, Google v. Oracle has been decided at the Supreme Court in favor of Google. Justice Breyer wrote the opinion, finding that [...]
News and Commentary The Hollywood Reporter writes about the $20 million copyright infringement claim made against Paramount Pictures based solely on a draft screenplay being circulated. The dispute centers on whether [...]
Rent Check Sean Mooney looks at an old article written by Jeff Bezos in 2001 about the problems associated with software and business method patents, and how he would fix [...]
Libraries across the country, despite being more valuable than ever, face a triple threat as a result of the pandemic. Their funding sources (state and local tax dollars) are being [...]
Rent Check Sean Mooney writes about how despite added exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA Section 1201 in 2015, plenty of farmers are having a tough time getting [...]
In The Washington Post, Matthew Kavanagh and Madhavi Sunder of Georgetown University called for the Biden Administration to end its objection to a pending waiver of intellectual property rights enforcement [...]
In response to COVID-19, more than 20 states across the country loosened the scope-of-practice restrictions on nurse practitioners (NPs), increasing the capacity of the health care workforce to care for patients. Yet these [...]
Earlier this month, the Niskanen Center hosted a webinar with Charles Duan of the R Street Institute discussing the role of intellectual property in the supply of vaccinations. Later that [...]