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Article | 17/07/2010 Disagreements on transparency fail to stop ACTA treaty leak
Disagreements between the European Union and the US over whether to release the current negotiating text of a secretive international copyright treaty...
Article | 14/07/2010 International anti-counterfeiting talks hit snags says EU
The European Union "will not swallow" U.S. hypocrisy when negotiating an anti-counterfeiting agreement, said the senior E.U. representative involved i...
Article | 9/07/2010 US panel to investigate patent complaint against smartphones
The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched an investigation into patent complaints filed by FlashPoint Technology, which alleges that four s...
Article | 6/07/2010 Beijing angry with EU anti-dumping investigation
China has hit back at the European Commission over an investigation into allegations of hardware dumping.
Article | 28/06/2010 US trade panel to investigate S3 complaint against Apple
The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) has launched a formal investigation into four patent complaints filed against Apple by computer graphi...
Article | 10/02/2010 Protectionism worries Indian outsourcers
India's leading software trade body said on Tuesday that protectionism in key markets could affect the growth prospects of the country's outsourcing i...
Article | 11/12/2009 Tech firms complain about new Chinese procurement rules
Trade groups are protesting an "unprecedented" new Chinese policy that gives local IT products preference for government contracts there, arguing that...
Article | 8/04/2009 US trade office releases information on secret piracy pact
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has released some new details about an anti-counterfeiting trade agreement that has been discussed ...