The conflict between Senator Wyden and the administration over the constitutionality of ACTA continued anew last week. As previously reported, Senator Wyden wrote a letter to President Obama in October, 2011, challenging USTR’s claimed authority to bind the United States…
Enclosed are my lecture notes from my talk on January 7, 2012 on a panel at the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. I have also included a printable version and a copy of the slides…
The TPP is the latest in a dangerous shift in US trade policy towards a practice of international law making to bind the US to standards not reflected in its current law and without adequate transparency or public process. As…
Heesob Nam recently requested me to give an opinion on whether the intellectual property provisions of the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement [KORUS] are fully consistent with U.S. law. The U.S. Congress did not change its intellectual property law in its…
Ambassador of New Zealand to the United States, and former WTO Director General, Mike Moore explained today that the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) may contain the “sequencing” of intellectual property and other provisions for some members. He made the…
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure has just released the response it got from the EU INTA committee to the request to disclose the legal opinion the Committee recently received on ACTA. In what would be a shocking response,…
Margot Kaminski (Yale Information Society Project), Brook Baker (Northeastern University) and Jimmy Koo and I (PIJIP) have released a draft section by section analysis of the leaked U.S. proposals for intellectual property and pharmaceutical pricing chapters for the Trans-Pacific Free…
On the eve of a hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, two releases from the research and academic community suggest that the current debate is on the wrong track. First, a new…
The TPP chief negotiators took questions from stakeholders this morning in Lima, Peru. There were some elements of news scattered among numerous refusals to discuss, verify or explain any proposals or positions in the negotiations. One irony in the secrecy…
Enclosed are the presentation materials of Sharon Treat, State Legislator from Maine, on the US proposal for a TPP chapter restricting pharmaceutical reimbursement programs. Sharon testified that, if applied to the US (unlike similar chapters with Korea and Australia), the…
This briefing paper provides preliminary analysis of the leaked U.S. proposal for an intellectual property chapter in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. What is clear from this analysis is that the U.S. proposal, if adopted, would create the most…
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