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WTOs Lamy Continues Engagement On Intellectual Property Issues
World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy continues to be engaged on intellectual property issues as WTO members begin to revive broader trade negotiations. This week Lamy hosted the heads of the World Intellectual Property Organization and World Health Organization together, and then chaired a consultation with ambassadors on proposals to amend WTO rules on intellectual property and trade.

World Trade Organization: Hyperlinked Map of Disputes Between Members
"The World Trade Organization has recently posted on its website an interactive map that depicts disputes between its member states....

Collapse Of WTO Talks Washes Away Hope For TRIPS Changes
By William New Seven-year negotiations at the World Trade Organization collapsed today after an intensive nine-day ministerial snagged on an agricultural issue. And with the end of the Doha Round of trade negotiations for the foreseeable future go the hopes of some members of amending global trade rules on intellectual property ...

Panel: Doha Round Hijacked Trade, But Geopolitics May Force Adjustments
The future of the multilateral trading system looks bleak although global trade is in good shape overall, and developing countries are becoming heavier trading partners as a new geopolitical landscape is emerging, according to panellists in a concurrent event to this week?s World Trade Organization ministerial meeting.

China Pledges WTO Copyright, Trademark Cooperation
It's no surprise that China is home to a flourishing black market for U.S. trademarked and copyrighted goods. What's surprising, though, is China's calm response Tuesday to a World Trade Organization report (...

Abrupt End To Ministerial Leaves Questions On Future Of IP Issues At WTO
By William New The World Trade Organization Doha Round is over, and bitterly, at least for now, but negotiators left town with the general consensus that hard-earned work to date should not be lost and that there might be resumption of talks sometime in the future...

Trade Secrets
Former execs are hit with doctrine of inevitable disclosure.

Trade Secrets
Razorsight agreed to pay $4.5 million settlement in infringement lawsuit.

Newspaper Publisher
Star Tribune must pay St. Paul Pioneer Press a $3.8 million trade secrets act violations settlement.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...