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The Modi government has set up a "think tank" (so titled) to draft a new intellectual property law policy for India. Public consultations are currently ongoing on the draft policy that was submitted by the think tank in December 2014. However, there have been various news reports and commentaries suggesting that the new Indian right of centre government will succumb to US pressure and are in the process of maximising IP rights in India. The focus of these commentaries have almost entirely been on the changes that are likely to result in the pharmaceutical sector and the adverse consequenses with regard to access to affordable generics, not only in India but across other developing countries as well. In this paper, I examine the pattern of negotiations taking place between India and US, study developments in trade negotiations with the US since the Modi government came into power and explore these issues within the context of economic sanctions and international negotiation theories. Consequently, I argue that fear of the Indian government succumbing to US pressure with regard to changes to its patent policy is unfounded. I put forward the reasons why India will not give in to the demands made by the US pharmaceutical and biotechnology lobby.Sujitha is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol School of Law since 2012. Her research interests focuses on the interaction between international intellectual property law and other areas of law and policy including competition law, trade law, economic law and environmental law. She has also worked in the area of public procurement and corruption with a focus on India and is interested in competition law and policy issues in developing countries. She is currently working on the intellectual property law-competition law interface in the refrigerant gas sector in Europe and its implications for access to green technology at the global level. Sujitha has published in various peer-reviewed journals including the International & Comparative Law Quarterly,International Journal of Economic Law, European Journal of International Law, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, and International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, as well as in the European Intellectual Property Reviewand The George Washinton International Law Review (forthcoming). Sujitha began her academic career in 2008 as a Lecturer in Law at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. Sujitha completed her undergraduate law programme in India, and her master's degree in International Trade and Finance Law from the University of Aberdeen. She was granted a full studentship by the University of East Anglia to work on her doctoral studies and was linked to the ESRC Centre for Competition Law in Norwich when she completed her thesis. She has briefly worked as a lawyer in India and has also worked in the legal department of a French multinational, Thomson Multimedia (I) Pvt Ltd.

Knowledge commons" describes the institutionalized community governance of the sharing and, in some cases, creation, of information, science, knowledge, data, and other types of intellectual and cultural resources. It is the subject of enormous recent interest and enthusiasm with respect to policymaking about innovation, creative production, and intellectual property. Taking that enthusiasm as its starting point, the recently-published book Governing Knowledge Commons (Oxford, 2014) argues that policymaking should be based on evidence and a deeper understanding of what makes commons institutions work. It offers a systematic way to study knowledge commons, borrowing and building on Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prizewinning research on natural resource commons. It proposes a framework for studying knowledge commons that is adapted to the unique attributes of knowledge and information, describing the framework in detail and explaining how to put it into context both with respect to commons research and with respect to innovation and information policy. Eleven detailed case studies apply and discuss the framework exploring knowledge commons across a wide variety of scientific and cultural domains. The lecture will describe the origins of the research framework and its status both relative to Ostrom's work and as an independent field. The lessons of the case study research to date will be discussed, along with plans for future work.

Professor Michael Madison writes and teaches about intellectual property law and policy, and about questions concerning the production and distribution of knowledge and innovation, at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of more than 30 journal articles and book chapters, the co-author of The Law of Intellectual Property (Wolters Kluwer, 4th edition 2013) and the co-editor of Governing Knowledge Commons (Oxford University Press 2014). He is the co-founder of the global research network titled the Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons. He has been a member of the law faculty at the University of Pittsburgh since 1998. Before that, he taught at Harvard Law School on a fellowship and was engaged in the private practice of law in San Francisco and in Silicon Valley in California. Since 2006, he has taught at MIPLC on the faculty of the GWU Summer Program in IP.

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Das zehnjährige Jubiläum des Inkrafttretens der Kartellverfahrens-Verordnung 1/2003 sowie der Fusionskontroll-Verordnung 139/2004 steht für zentrale rechtspolitische Projekte der europäischen Wettbewerbspolitik: Modernisierung, Dezentralisierung und Ökonomisierung. Zu denbedeutsamen Konsequenzen zählen die Herausbildung neuer Entscheidungsarten, Verfahren, Methoden und Begründungsmuster sowie eine größere europäische Verantwortung nationaler Kartellämter. Gleichzeitig markiert der zehnte Jahrestag der Osterweiterung der Europäischen Uniondie unmittelbare Anwendung des Kartellrechts in früher sozialistisch ausgerichteten Staaten.

Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Umwälzungen richtet der Vortragszyklus den Blick nach vorne auf die zukünftigen Herausforderungen, Notwendigkeiten und Entwicklungslinien der europäischen Wettbewerbspolitik. Im kritischen Diskurs mit zentralen Entscheidungsträgern der Wettbewerbspolitik, Wissenschaftlern und Vertretern der Kartellrechtspraxis soll erörtert werden, ob die vor 10 Jahren eingeleiteten Veränderungen auch für die kommenden Jahre taugliche Instrumente der Wettbewerbspolitik zur Verfügung stellen.

Institutsseminar: Sujitha Subramanian wird sprechen über "Green Technology Patenting in the Refrigerant Gas Sector and the Climate Change Politics in Europe".

Lisa Heinzmann wird sprechen über: "Die Verwertungsrechte in der digitalen Welt. Eine urheberrechtliche Untersuchung unter Berücksichtigung des französischen, deutschen und europäischen Rechts." Obwohl der Titel auf Deutsch formuliert ist, wird der Vortrag selbst auf Englisch gehalten.