OXFAM PRESS RELEASE, FEBRUARY 2, 2011: The proliferation of substandard, dangerous medicines in poor countries is being used by rich countries as an excuse to tighten intellectual property rules, boosting the profits of large pharmaceutical companies while making it harder…
U.S. cables released by wikileaks show that the agreement was developed with the intention of establishing new norms against which to measure the efforts of middle income countries not involved in the negotiations. They show that Europeans were agitated by…
An opinion on ACTA drafted by European academics identifies the most critical aspects of ACTA and shows how it clashes both with EU law and with the enforcement provisions of the TRIPS Agreement. FFII reports that EU trade negotiator Pedro…
The first afternoon panel at the Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy was moderated by Simon Crompton, editor of the British publication Managing IP. He opened by noting that ACTA has been criticized both for having been negotiated in a…
John Morten, Director of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for the US opened the afternoon plenary of the Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, saying that IP enforcement is a high priority for Obama administration, with the Attorney General and…
The opening of the Global Congress Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy featured the heads of many different public and private organizations. The themes that were repeated by all speakers were 1) the need to convince the public to have a greater…
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Switzerland’s Minister of Justice and Police has responded to a critique of the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement sent by the Berne Declaration and Alliance Sud last year. The Swiss response discusses ACTA and medicines (noting that the agreement will not address…
Download as a PDF Jimmy Koo, PIJIP Fellow January 28, 2010 Generally 1. Each section of ACTA should be limited to copyrights and trademark rights. [1] See Kaminski Paper p. 28. 2. The mandatory obligations of ACTA parties are too…
Though negotiations are still underway on the South Korean – US Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA), the officially released version features significantly more strenuous provisions regarding IP enforcement and the Internet than those found in ACTA (Dec. 3, 2010 version).…
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…
A group of prominent European academics coordinated by Rita Matulionyte and Axel Metzger from the Leibniz University in Hanover has released an opinion on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The opinion identifies the most critical aspects of ACTA and shows…