Last week Inside US Trade reported that Trans Pacific Partnership negotiators meeting in Singapore combined all of the existing proposals for an intellectual property Chapter into one working, and highly bracketed, text. The combined text has not been released, but…
PIJIP fellow Jimmy Koo has written a section-by-section analysis of the US-proposed intellectual property chapter of the the Trans Pacific Partnership. The document lists each article and compares it to US law, TRIPS, and/or other trade agreements where appropriate. Please…
Speaking at an Indian Parliamentary committee meeting on IPRs, Minster of Commerce and Industry Shri Anand Sharma spoke out against seizures of generic medicines in the Netherlands. “These detentions of Indian generics by Europe were deemed to be TRIPS violative…
Michael Blakeney April 1, 2011 Original: The annual $US 60 billion trade in counterfeit and pirate products was the principal catalyst of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and its IP rights enforcement regime. However, 10…
EXCERPT: “…Your suggestion that draft negotiating text and position papers should be made public is understandable but problematic. First, this would only be possible if all parties agreed. Many negotiating parties would consider releasing the text as a breach of…
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Eleven nonprofit organizations and three professors have requested that the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, “issue an urgent appeal” to the governments negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership. The request alleges that the proposed intellectual property provisions “threaten…
Michael Geist March 21, 2011 The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has released its report on CETA and ACTA. The report, which is based on hearings that featured Minister Peter van Loan, includes a notable recommendation with respect to ACTA…
In advance of tbe President Obama’s trip to Brazil, USTR Ron Kirk and Brazilian Minister of External Relations Antonio de Aguiar Patriota signed an agreement establishing a “United States-Brazil Commission on Economic and Trade Relations.” The commission has a work…
Claims that anti-counterfeiting agreement goes beyond EU law. By Simon Taylor 17.03.2011 / 05:08 CET Original: MEPs opposed to a new global anti-counterfeiting agreement will try next week to refer the pact to the European Court of Justice (ECJ),…
Original Post: March 16, 2011 By Ante Pedro Velasco Martins, EU ACTA negotiator, today answered FFII’s 30 December 2010 questions on the initialling of ACTA. ACTA was initialed on 25 November 2010, through an electronic procedure. The Commission chief-negotiator…