Over ninety-five percent of printed works are in formats inaccessible to people with visual impairments, representatives of the visually impaired said last week at the World Intellectual Property Organization. An agreement to allow exceptions in copyright law, they argued, could address this “...
Buried throughout the text of a climate change bill that Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry introduced this month are no fewer than 17 references to U.S. companies’ intellectual property rights and the necessity of...
Without better coordination of government resources, theft of U.S. goods through piracy is likely to get worse, Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday at a gathering of White House officials and media and technology executives.
"They're stealing it. It offends me," Biden said. Participants...
As they attempt to construe solutions that will halt global warming, heads of state and government should resist the temptation to attack the legislation in place on intellectual property, writes Mark Esper, executive vice-president of the US Chamber's Global Intellectual Property...
COP-15 has poor countries seeking to unlock intellectual property rights on climate innovations.
Developing countries, including China and India, have a proposal on the table at the Copenhagen climate change conference COP-15 that will liberalise global intellectual property rights for...
Global leaders settle in this week to negotiate a climate agreement in Copenhagen at the U.N. summit that the vice-president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's intellectual property center has called "...
Just last week, the Senate confirmed Victoria Espinel as the first-ever U.S. intellectual property enforcement coordinator. This position was created by the bipartisan PRO-IP Act, which became law last year, and assigned the heavy task of improving enforcement and promoting intellectual property...
The Senate late Thursday confirmed Victoria Espinel to be the nation's first-ever intellectual property enforcement coordinator, a position that will be housed in the White House.
She most recently served as the founder and president of the nonprofit Bridging the Innovation Divide and...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Intellectual Property Center today released a report highlighting Louisiana's contributions to America's innovation economy.
The study is part of GIPC's State Fact Sheets, which examine the roles innovation and creativity play in each state....
