October, 2009

Locke Slams China's IP Enforcement

Oct 28, 2009 - Managing Intellectual Property

Speaking at the Peral River Delta International Forum on Innovation and IP, Locke said: "China's enforcement of IP laws is often uneven and penalties assessed are often too mild to act as a deterrent."

Guangdong is one of China's most economically developed provinces. Last year,...

Winning the copyright battle in China

Oct 28, 2009 - Reuters

When it comes to protecting intellectual property in China, the United States often feels that its pleas are falling on deaf ears. Its best hope is that China recognizes that copyright protection is in its own interests. To achieve that, Washington needs to push for changes from within.

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Asset protection

Oct 26, 2009 - World Finance

Intellectual property (IP) infringement is big business in emerging countries and counterfeit goods ranks as one of their biggest exports. The OECD released a study in 2007 that estimated that the annual value of international physical trade in counterfeited consumer goods was $200bn, an amount...

Save the Planet, American-Style

Oct 23, 2009

Portfolio.com

President Barack Obama traveled to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Friday to challenge the United States to lead the world in the development of clean-energy technology.

"The world is now engaged in a peaceful competition to determine the technologies that...

Cotton: Piracy Is Four-Letter Word

Oct 20, 2009 - Broadcasting & Cable

"We must move from a perspective where counterfeiting is a four-syllable word to one where it is a four-letter word," says NBCU Executive VP and General Counsel Rick Cotton, "from where counterfeiting is regarded as morally ambiguous to where it is recognized as a reprehensible job killer in a U...

Piracy fight goes to Washington

Oct 20, 2009

The Hollywood Reporter

The U.S. needs improved customs and border protection resources for its fight against piracy, NBC Universal executive vp and general counsel Rick Cotton urged a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday.

"We cannot call upon our trading partners to take extraordinary...

Movement Starts For Intellectual Property

Oct 20, 2009 - Congress Daily PM

Legislation to bolster intellectual property enforcement resources and tools for the Homeland Security Department through its Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agencies could move through the Senate Finance Committee before Thanksgiving, aides said Monday....

US Industry Campaign: IP Needed To Address Climate Change, Economy

Oct 2, 2009 - Intellectual Property Watch

Intellectual property rights are a key to innovation, the mitigation of climate change, an incentive to spur the economy and a creator of jobs, according to participants in several recent industry events and activities.

On the threshold of the United Nations Framework Convention on...

Hollywood studios applaud net neutrality proposal

Oct 1, 2009

The Hill

When Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed net neutrality rules last month, he said the "open-Internet principles apply only to lawful content, services and applications - not to activities like unlawful distribution of copyrighted works ......

Berman Riffs On IP Rights, Patent Reform