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April 12, 2012
An influential European politician has indicated that he will recommend that ACTA be rejected, making it increasingly unlikely that the Agreement will ever be implemented in Europe
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March 05, 2012
MEPs clashed with representatives of the European Commission last week as they sought to understand the legal – and political – implications of the anti-counterfeiting deal ACTA
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March 02, 2012
As the European Parliament hosted a workshop on ACTA yesterday, activists on both sides of the debate took to social media site Twitter to present their case
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March 02, 2012
Brussels was the setting for impassioned debate over the EU's approach to ACTA this week. But it wasn’t the only place where concerns were raised in Europe
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February 28, 2012
The rapporteur for a key committee in the European Parliament has urged MEPs to refer a separate question to Europe’s highest court over the legality of ACTA
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February 27, 2012
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht last week said that the Court of Justice of the EU will be asked to rule on the legitimacy of ACTA. But how soon can an opinion be expected?
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February 10, 2012
Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Latvia have all said they will not ratify the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement following protests
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January 27, 2012
The European Parliament’s rapporteur for the international anti-counterfeiting deal ACTA has resigned after the agreement was signed by the EU and a group of its member states
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January 26, 2012
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October 11, 2011
Mexico’s failure to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement last week could have been avoided, said José Rodrigo Roque-Díaz, the new head of the country’s IP Office
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September 30, 2011
Representatives from ACTA’s negotiating countries will gather for a signing ceremony in Japan tomorrow, though several will not be able to actually sign
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February 10, 2011
The leaked cables about the ACTA negotiating process published by WikiLeaks also reveal the anger of the Italian government at its negative write up in the USTR’s 2008 Special 301 report
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February 10, 2011
A series of leaked cables between the Japan and US governments about ACTA also explain why Japan was reluctant to join a possible US case again China at the WTO for poor IP enforcement
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February 10, 2011
A series of leaked cables have exposed the conflicts behind the negotiations for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
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November 19, 2010
A group of business organisations has welcomed the release of the final version of ACTA, but also said some areas need to be strengthened
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November 16, 2010
The US Trade Representative released a finalised draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement yesterday
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November 17, 2010
Candice Li, external relations manager for anti-counterfeiting at INTA, answers Managing IP’s questions about the final ACTA draft
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November 16, 2010
The final ACTA draft released this week resolves a number of questions that were still in dispute when the previous draft was published last month
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October 08, 2010
The latest draft of ACTA was published this week. Managing IP provides a summary of comments so far
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October 08, 2010
India has no plans to join the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, as the country’s top IP official explained in a recent interview
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October 08, 2010
Internet service providers are likely to celebrate key concessions in the latest version of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
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October 07, 2010
The latest, near-final draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) sets out basic standards for enforcement – but does not go as far as many critics feared
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August 23, 2010
The tenth round of ACTA discussions concluded on Friday with seemingly little progress made
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August 19, 2010
Reports from close to this week’s ACTA discussions suggest that negotiations are still largely focused on the proper scope of the agreement
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July 19, 2010
ACTA will not criminalise any new types of IPR infringement, according to Luc Devigne, one of the leading EU negotiators of the agreement
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July 19, 2010
Disagreement between the EU and the US over the scope of any Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) became clear this week, after the EU’s chief negotiator said he “strongly disagreed” with proposals that it only cover copyright and trade marks
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June 28, 2010
Negotiators are meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland this week in the latest round of discussions on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
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June 16, 2010
Tensions between developed and developing countries over the draft Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) have surfaced at the recent meeting of the TRIPs Council
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May 01, 2010
Managing IP presents its guide to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
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April 22, 2010
The ACTA draft shows that the negotiators still have a long way to go before reaching agreement on key issues
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April 22, 2010
The negotiators of a controversial agreement designed to reduce counterfeiting and piracy published a draft for the first time on Wednesday
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April 22, 2010
The publication of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is only the latest stage in a long-running negotiation process that was initially intended to be completed by the end of 2008
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April 22, 2010
Some campaigners and academics have long called for the publication of the draft ACTA text. Now it’s available, what do they make of it?