Drell of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Alexandria Division, ruled in favor of the agency in another case challenging FDA’s authority under section 361 of the PHS Act – to continue its enforcement of a thirty-five-year-old ban on pet turtles. [read post]

However, various other cases exemplify the breadth of the ministerial act doctrine, including notably in circumstances apparently presenting more arguable judgment and discretion than the matter sub judice. [read post]

You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com]   Highlights this week included:   Senators Specter and Leahy express concern about ACTA Treaty (Techdirt) (Intellectual Property Watch) (IP Justice) (Michael Geist) (Public Knowledge) (Intellectual Property Watch) Commerce Department cites questionable stats, Chamber of Commerce uses them to ask Bush to sign PRO IP Bill into law (Techdirt) (Techdirt) (Public… [read post]

: (Spicy IP)   Events 9-12 June: (US) Strategies for management of IP – Chicago: (IPR-Helpdesk), 11 June: US PLI ‘Advanced patent licensing 2008: What you need to know before licensing your patent’ – San Francisco: (Patent Docs), 11 June: MARQUES ‘First meeting with Spanish Judges of the Community Trade Mark Courts’ – Alicante: (Class 46), 13-14 June: Centre for European Economic Research conference on ‘The… [read post]