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Checking in on that #USPTO request for comments on "Future Strategies in Anticounterfeiting and Antipiracy." https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/05/25/2023-10770/future-strategies-in-anticounterfeiting-and-antipiracy

Comments are due in two weeks.

Looks like there are currently a total of eight comments.

Four have been posted: https://www.regulations.gov/document/PTO-C-2023-0006-0001/comment

As some of you know, I'm currently writing about the rhetoric of "counterfeiting" in discussions of design patent law & policy. We'll see if any of these comments end up in my next draft.

#IntellectualProperty
I felt a sense of deja vu reading this - it reminds of all the themes from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement 2011, a dozen years ago.
Yeah. My draft paper, which I may end up submitting as comments, builds on scholarship about ACTA and points out how those old rhetorical strategies are being repurposed in discussions about design patents.