Text of the latest (Jan 29th) Council of Ministers draft for the Enforcement Directive is now up at:
http://wiki.ael.be/uploads/IPRE-Council-Jan29.html
Unlike the previous Dec 12th draft, which was apparently never treated as a serious basis for discussion, the Jan 29th draft is a serious attempt by the Irish Presidency to capture mainstream opinion of the Parliament, the Commission, and Member States government.
Both the Parliament working group and the Member States working group met this week to discuss further drafting issues; but the overall shape of the Jan 29th draft should be treated as potentially very close to the shape of the final text.
EDRI and FFII will be making a joint presentation on the Directive to MEPs in Strasbourg on Wednesday. Ideally we would like to finalise a position by tomorrow (Sunday) night, so that we can try to get a bandwagon rolling in the Parliament from Monday onwards.
FIPR and IP-Justice are on the case too, but it would be good to have more eyeballs on this. How much of the powerful criticism of the Directive has been taken into account; and how much is still valid, and should be pointed up ?
Resources and Links:
http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/IPRProposalDirectiveInfoPage
Preliminary comparison by Robin Gross of the new Council draft against the original Directive text and the text earlier passed by the Parliament's JURI committee (nb preliminary version -- an updated version will be going up soon on the IP Justice CODE website).
http://www.ffii.org.uk/ip_enforce/IPJ_analysis.pdf http://www.ffii.org.uk/ip_enforce/IPJ_analysis.html
The HTML file is smaller, but due to a weird bug I'm getting a lot with FTP recently, the transfer was truncated, and the last page or so on "technical devices" is missing (My fault for still being stuck on Windows XP!)
The UK Patent Office has been so busy working for the meetings in Brussels on the Directive, it hasn't had time to publish even the raw returns from its official public Consultation on the Directive, but some of them can be pulled off the web, eg with this Google search:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&saf...
It would be great if somebody could put together first a list of links to the actual responses, and then maybe a brief summary of the positions.
James Heald, FFII-UK.
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