Rep. McDermott v. State Department – Conflicting Views on the Trans Pacific Parternship and Access to Medicines
Last week Jim McDermott wrote an op-ed in Roll Call on the TPP in which he warned that the U.S.…
Mike Palmedo is the admin for infojustice.org, and he manages interdisciplinary research on copyright exceptions at American University College of Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. He has Masters degrees Economics and in International Affairs, and is an economics PhD candidate.
Witnesses at U.S. Trade Hearing Offer Opinions (and Warnings) on Intellectual Property in Upcoming Negotiations with the EU
Today the Obama Administration’s inter-agency Trade Policy Staff Committee held the first day of its two-day hearing on the Transatlantic…
Schedule of Witness Testimony at Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Hearing Next Week
USTR has sent witnesses the schedule for its Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership hearing on May 29-30. There will be…
House Democrats Urge Obama Administration to Give Poorest Countries More Time to Adhere to WTO Intellectual Property Rules
Representatives Waxman, Lee, DeLauro, Schakowsky, and Bass have sent a letter to Acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis supporting a…
English Translation of the New Colombian Copyright Bill (no. 306)
Carolina Botero has sent us an English translation of the new copyright legislation that was recently proposed in Colombia to…
Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations and the Controversial Issue of Pharmaceutical Test Data Protection
Trade negotiators are meeting in Lima, Peru this week for the seventeenth round of talks on the proposed Trans Pacific…
Today’s Congressional Testimony on Copyright Reform Will Address Excessive Penalties for Consumers
Today at 2pm EST, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet will hold the first hearing…
Excerpts of Comments to USTR on Copyright and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
By last Friday, 347 comments had been submitted to the US Trade Representative in response to its Request for Comments…
Do Pharmaceutical Firms Invest More Heavily in Countries with Data Exclusivity?
[Forthcoming paper, Summer 2013, Currents International Trade Law Journal] Abstract: Countries may choose various methods of data protection in…
USTR Announcements and Deadlines for Public Comments on the TPP and TTIP
Today the U.S. Trade Representative issued a Federal Register Notice seeking “comments from the public on all issues related to…
USTR Special 301 Attacks Indian Novartis Ruling – WTO Director General Defends It
This is a quick note about one of the items in this year’s Special 301 Report, released by USTR this…
Revisiting USTR’s Negotiating Objectives in New Trade Promotion Authority Legislation
Pressure on Capitol Hill for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) is growing. TPA – called “fasttrack” in the 1990s when it…