Sources knowledgeable about the U.S. negotiating position in the TPP confirm that the U.S. has now drafted a pharmaceutical chapter for the TPP negotiations. The chapter is modeled on the Korea-US (KORUS) FTA’s pharmaceutical chapter, as expected, but goes beyond…
The U.S. Trade Representative’s 2011 Special 301 Report was released yesterday afternoon at about 4pm. (James Love from Knowledge Ecology International has an excellent blog on it here.) Overall, this year’s Special 301 Report shows relatively little effort to respond…
Today at New York University I will be participating in the official launch of the multi-year multi-country study of Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (), edited by Joe Karaganis at SSRC. Mike Palmedo and I contributed to the report, in…
Click here for selected comments to USTR on ACTA from Civil Society Groups Cick here for the complete docket of comments (ustr-2010-0014) on regulations.gov Comment by Thirty Law Professors: SUMMARY: We write to call on the Obama administration to comply…
Please join fellow legal academics in signing this draft statement to the administration on the constitutional problem with ACTA. The submission is open for editing comments and signatures until FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11 AT 4PM eastern standard time. The submission is…
Peter Maybarduk (Public Citizen) and Sean Flynn (representing Forum on Democracy and Trade) met with USTR staff on February 3 to be briefed on the administration’s negotiation of the TPP with respect to the planned IP chapter and the rumored…
On Friday, an organization of state legislators passed a resolution calling on the U.S. to halt the use of trade agreements to enact international disciplines on pharmaceutical pricing programs. The resolution was passed at the winter meeting of the National…
The EU has passed ACTA, in a close vote with a 16 vote margin. [See the official record of the vote.] The full text of the resolution is available here.