While Net Neutrality has grabbed the headlines this week, that doesn’t mean things have been quiet on the intellectual property front. The scales of justice have often tilted too far in imposing excessive restrictions through IP, but it appears the Supreme Court may be looking to restore some balance. This Monday the Supreme Court decided which cases it will be dealing with this year, and consumers and innovators should be encouraged by the results.
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While Net Neutrality has grabbed the headlines this week, that doesn’t mean things have been quiet on the intellectual property front. The scales of justice have often tilted too far in imposing excessive restrictions through IP, but it appears the Supreme Court may be looking to restore some balance. This Monday the Supreme Court decided which cases it will be dealing with this year, and consumers and innovators should be encouraged by the results.
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Public Knowledge today published a white paper, “It Will Be Awesome If They Don’t Screw It Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology,” which examines how intellectual property (IP) law impacts the rapidly maturing technology of 3D printing, and how existing industries which feel threatened by its growth might try to use IP law to stop it.
An executive summary of the paper is here.
The full paper is posted here.
The issue page on the PK site is here.
UPDATE: Take ACTION! Tell the Federal Government What You Think of Copyright Enforcement
Follow @sherwinpkUPDATE: The deadline for comments passed at 5 p.m. today.
As John noted not too long ago, the new Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator has asked for your opinions on how the various government agencies involved with IP enforcement should go about doing their jobs—what harms of infringement should be addressed, and what changes in policies, regulations, and even the law, need to be made so that we can have a workable and effective national enforcement policy.
We want to make sure that enforcement efforts aren't so broad and indiscriminate that they target fair uses of copyrighted works, or use draconian tactics that will cut off Internet access for those merely accused of infringement. We also want to make sure that changes to enforcement policy and IP law are made in open forums, not in secretive agreements like the proposed Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
If you'd like to send your thoughts to the nation's first "IP enforcement czar," have a look at the request for comments and send in an email. Or, if you like, you can use our action alert form here.
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If you'd like to send your thoughts to the nation's first "IP enforcement czar," have a look at the request for comments and send in an email. Or, if you like, you can use our action alert form here.
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As John noted not too long ago, the new Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator has asked for your opinions on how the various government agencies involved with IP enforcement should go about doing their jobs—what harms of infringement should be addressed, and what changes in policies, regulations, and even the law, need to be made so that we can have a workable and effective national enforcement policy.
We want to make sure that enforcement efforts aren't so broad and indiscriminate that they target fair uses of copyrighted works, or use draconian tactics that will cut off Internet access for those merely accused of infringement. We also want to make sure that changes to enforcement policy and IP law are made in open forums, not in secretive agreements like the proposed Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
If you'd like to send your thoughts to the nation's first "IP enforcement czar," have a look at the request for comments and send in an email. Or, if you like, you can use our action alert form here.
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As John noted not too long ago, the new Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator has asked for your opinions on how the various government agencies involved with IP enforcement should go about doing their jobs—what harms of infringement should be addressed, and what changes in policies, regulations, and even the law, need to be made so that we can have a workable and effective national enforcement policy.
We want to make sure that enforcement efforts aren't so broad and indiscriminate that they target fair uses of copyrighted works, or use draconian tactics that will cut off Internet access for those merely accused of infringement. We also want to make sure that changes to enforcement policy and IP law are made in open forums, not in secretive agreements like the proposed Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
If you'd like to send your thoughts to the nation's first "IP enforcement czar," have a look at the request for comments and send in an email. Or, if you like, you can use our action alert form here.
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Today, Public Knowledge's Director of The Global Knowledge Initiative and Staff Attorney, Rashmi Rangnath is testifying before the US Trade Representative on the "Special 301" process. You can read her testimony here (PDF). There is not a webcast or official live coverage, per USTR rules that "prohibit the use of electronic media in its hearing room." So, despite this ban, we are relying on reports from the hearing room via twitter (using the #ustr hashtag), and hope to bring you more coverage as well.
If you're not familiar with the Special 301 process, the latest 5 Minutes with Harold Feld does a great job explaining what's going on. So does Rashmi's prior blog post — that encouraged so many of you to write comments to the USTR.
Lastly, we have a link to today's hearing schedule, that tells us who is testifying and who the Special 301 committee members are (PDF) ... also pasted below:
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If you're not familiar with the Special 301 process, the latest 5 Minutes with Harold Feld does a great job explaining what's going on. So does Rashmi's prior blog post — that encouraged so many of you to write comments to the USTR.
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If you're not familiar with the Special 301 process, the latest 5 Minutes with Harold Feld does a great job explaining what's going on. So does Rashmi's prior blog post — that encouraged so many of you to write comments to the USTR.
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This past Monday, the Federal Circuit ordered a full court review of Tafas v. Doll, the case that is challenging the Patent and Trade Office's (PTO) proposed rules for limiting patent application continuations. These rules would require that more information be submitted with patent applications that contain a large number of claims. In a friend-of-the-court brief (PDF) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, The Public Patent Foundation, PK and other public interest groups urged that a decision by the Federal District Court for Eastern Virginia blocking the proposed rules be overturned.
These proposed rules are needed to help reduce abuses of the current continuation process.
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These proposed rules are needed to help reduce abuses of the current continuation process.
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These proposed rules are needed to help reduce abuses of the current continuation process.
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Issues:
The following statement is attributed to Gigi B.Sohn, president and co-founder of Public Knowledge:
"President Obama has made an outstanding appointment in nominating David Kappos to become director of the Patent and Trademark Office. Kappos' background with a leading technology company ensures that he is aware of the need for reform of the patent process.
"We also hope that Kappos will reevaluate the role that PTO has played in copyright issues, concentrating instead on fixing the patent issues that need immediate attention."
On June 1st the Supreme Court agreed to review a case PK took a particular interest in: In Re Bilski, now known as Bilski v. Doll. The Bilski patent is a method of hedging risks in commodities trading and the type of patent is known as a business method patent. The method basically involves asking two parties about the risk of a purchase to better understand how to value a commodity. The initial patent examiner rejected Bilski's invention on the grounds "the invention is not implemented on a specific apparatus and merely manipulates [an] abstract idea and solves a purely mathematical problem without any limitation to a practical application, therefore, the invention is not directed to the technological arts." The outcome of this case could have a significant impact on the boundaries of what inventions are patentable.
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On June 1st the Supreme Court agreed to review a case PK took a particular interest in: In Re Bilski, now known as Bilski v. Doll. The Bilski patent is a method of hedging risks in commodities trading and the type of patent is known as a business method patent. The method basically involves asking two parties about the risk of a purchase to better understand how to value a commodity. The initial patent examiner rejected Bilski's invention on the grounds "the invention is not implemented on a specific apparatus and merely manipulates [an] abstract idea and solves a purely mathematical problem without any limitation to a practical application, therefore, the invention is not directed to the technological arts." The outcome of this case could have a significant impact on the boundaries of what inventions are patentable.
On June 1st the Supreme Court agreed to review a case PK took a particular interest in: In Re Bilski, now known as Bilski v. Doll. The Bilski patent is a method of hedging risks in commodities trading and the type of patent is known as a business method patent. The method basically involves asking two parties about the risk of a purchase to better understand how to value a commodity. The initial patent examiner rejected Bilski's invention on the grounds "the invention is not implemented on a specific apparatus and merely manipulates [an] abstract idea and solves a purely mathematical problem without any limitation to a practical application, therefore, the invention is not directed to the technological arts." The outcome of this case could have a significant impact on the boundaries of what inventions are patentable.
On June 1st the Supreme Court agreed to review a case PK took a particular interest in: In Re Bilski, now known as Bilski v. Doll. The Bilski patent is a method of hedging risks in commodities trading and the type of patent is known as a business method patent. The method basically involves asking two parties about the risk of a purchase to better understand how to value a commodity. The initial patent examiner rejected Bilski's invention on the grounds "the invention is not implemented on a specific apparatus and merely manipulates [an] abstract idea and solves a purely mathematical problem without any limitation to a practical application, therefore, the invention is not directed to the technological arts." The outcome of this case could have a significant impact on the boundaries of what inventions are patentable.
On Thursday, the US Trade Representative issued this year's Special 301 Report, which is meant to highlight countries that are seen as not doing enough to protect copyrights, patents, and trademarks. Countries are placed on a "Watch List" or a "Priority Watch List." Countries on the Priority Watch List face the possibility of trade sanctions.
Placement on the lists is based upon comments and consultations from interested parties—and the parties who keep showing the most interest in this process are the industry groups that profit from IP. The list has been used as a means for the content industries to add the weight of the US government to their gripes about the state of other countries' IP laws.
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Placement on the lists is based upon comments and consultations from interested parties—and the parties who keep showing the most interest in this process are the industry groups that profit from IP. The list has been used as a means for the content industries to add the weight of the US government to their gripes about the state of other countries' IP laws.
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