Archive - Feb 2005

Date

February 3rd

US to claim damages against IPR abuses

Original Publication Date: 
2 February, 2005
Source: 
By Khalid Mustafa, Daily Times (Lahore)
The US has asked Pakistan to pay damages to US companies for their future investment in case of the infringement of intellectual property rights and unilateral cancellation of licences.

February 1st

Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?<br>Political Organising Behind TRIPS

Original Publication Date: 
31 January, 2005
Source: 
by Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite, Corner House Briefing Paper 32, <a href='http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk'>http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk</a>
Because of a failure of democratic processes, a small group of men within the United States was able to capture the US trade-agenda-setting process and then to draft intellectual property principles that became the blueprint for TRIPS.