Developed countries are looking for ways to address the ongoing lack of intellectual property enforcement and efforts to bypass international trade obligations in the four biggest emerging global economies, as well as emulation of this behaviour by other emerging economies in particular as the...
A long-running battle over the right to use European place names, like Parma or Roquefort, for some of the world's most popular foods and beverages looks to be the toughest remaining issue in international trade talks aimed at reducing copyright and trademark theft.
That fake Coach handbag, and the phony Louis Vuitton scarf may soon get a lot harder to find on America's streets. The government on Tuesday announced its biggest ever West Coast seizure of phony...
A group of policymakers and other experts met this month in Geneva to discuss counterfeit and unsafe products and wrestled with possible balanced solutions to the problem.
The event was hosted by the United States mission and supported by the US Chamber of Commerce. It included US...
By all accounts, online piracy of software, movies, and music is on the upswing and becoming ever more sophisticated, making efforts to crack down on pirates ever more challenging — but that doesn’t daunt Steven Tepp.
Steven Tepp is the US Chamber of Commerce's new senior director...
Five business groups and trade associations sent a letter to House and Senate leaders Tuesday urging lawmakers to allow the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to use fees it has collected above the amount allocated to the agency in its fiscal year 2010 spending bill.
Last month, federal law enforcement officials took an important step to curb the growing scourge of intellectual property theft online by seizing the domain names of seven websites that were among the most prolific at illegally distributing copies of motion pictures — including...
There was progress during the ninth round of negotiations for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) this week in Lucerne, negotiators said over the last day, and in their final press communiqué they made promises that “ACTA will not interfere with a signatory’s ability to respect...
