This Week in Intellectual Property, October 22nd
News and Commentary In the Huffington Post, Daniel Maranas writes about the European Union's alternative "waiver" text in its negotiations over the TRIPS waiver. In it, he outlines the proposal [...]
News and Commentary In the Huffington Post, Daniel Maranas writes about the European Union's alternative "waiver" text in its negotiations over the TRIPS waiver. In it, he outlines the proposal [...]
News and Commentary The Niskanen Center has proudly joined a letter with a group of copyright reformers encouraging the Biden Administration to ensure that discussions of a TRIPS waiver--which the [...]
News and Commentary Writing for the Niskanen Center's main website, I discuss why the month of September has been so fantastic for drug pricing reform. After the Biden Administration's focus [...]
News and Commentary In TechDirt, Mike Masnick criticizes an op-ed by Michael Rosen in The Hill. Rosen maintains that the proposed TRIPS waiver has done nothing to help the COVID-19 [...]
Rent Check Happy Constitution Day! Last year I wrote a piece discussing the relationship between the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and intellectual property rights. In summary, while intellectual property [...]
News and Commentary Good news from the Tar Heel State: Judge Thomas Schroeder of the Middle District of North Carolina has declined a motion to dismiss a claim under the [...]
News and Commentary Writing for The Washington Post, Professor Robin Feldman discusses how the oft-cited justification for the patent system as a way for drug companies to help compensate for [...]
Rent Check I took a deeper dive into the Biden executive order on competition looking at the intellectual property-specific provisions of the EO. There's a lot to like, and the [...]
Earlier this month, the Biden administration unveiled the executive order entitled “Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” I wrote about it more broadly here. In short, I think the executive [...]
News and Commentary Juan Londoño has a primer for the American Action Forum about right-to-repair measures discussed in President Biden's executive order on competition. He is overly generous when dealing [...]