[Hague-jur-commercial-law] Mark your calendar: IP& The HagueMarch 29-30 at USPTO

[Michael Sondow]

Manon Ress wrote:

> Article 6 implies that interim relief may be sought from any 
> court anywhere.

In the U.S., you usually don't get interim relief, which almost always
harms the defendent, without posting a bond with the court in case your
claims are not upheld at trial. Is article 6 at least going to stipulate
the procedures for granting interim relief, or are far-flung courts
going to be allowed to apply it willy-nilly? In other words, what laws
of interim relief will be applied, those of the court where the
plaintiff asks for relief, or some other?

> US Copyright owners will get friendly courts to issue injunctive 
> relief. Maybe the UK courts?

Do UK courts grant injunctive relief easily? They seem to grant
restraining orders in libel claims readily enough.

In any event, if governments are swinging behind the latest draft, as
the Washington Internet Daily article says, then we can be sure there
are many problems for us with the draft, as these governments are
nothing more than a front for big business and as such couldn't care
less about the harm that will be done to consumers and non-profits.

M. Sondow
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