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The decision was made because of significant enforcement actions and progress in criminal prosecutions over the past year. Bulgaria has been removed from the Watch List in the annual US report on intellectual property protection. This is stated in the Special 301 Report published by the Office of the United States Tra…
It said that Vietnam is not entering into good faith negotiations or making significant progress in negotiations to provide adequate and effective IP rights protection. India has landed among a list of six countries on the priority watch list of the US Trade Representative (USTR). The USTR deals with adequacy and effe…
SIPX has been a CodeX research project that aims to establish a marketplace solution for the time-consuming and prohibitively high transaction costs often involved in getting permission to use content. Today, many obstacles exist in traditional mechanisms for content licensing, such as the difficulty of locating the a…
On November 20th, 2025, the Chinese Embassy in the United States hosted China-U.S. Intellectual Property Scholars Dialogue. Qiu Wenxing, Charge d’Affaires ad interim of the Embassy, delivered remarks. The dialogue was co-organized by Renmin University of China Law School, Civil, Commercial and Economic Law School of C…
The United States Trade Representative has placed India on its 2026 Priority Watch List for intellectual property (IP) rights, flagging continued concerns over protection and enforcement mechanisms. The designation was announced in the annual Special 301 Report, which assesses how effectively US trading partners safeg…
Vietnam has been designated as a Priority Foreign Country, the most serious classification, and could face a potential US investigation under Section 301. India, along with China, Russia and three other countries, has been placed on the US priority watch list in the 2026 Special 301 report over concerns on intellectua…