Mexico’s Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo gave a briefing in Mexico City about the state of the TPP negotiations, which he said may be completed by the end of April. He said that the Singapore Ministerial helped move the negotiations along,…
Today, Reps. Levin, Waxman, Conyers, Rangel and McDermott sent the following letter to the U.S. Trade Representative. In October 2011 we wrote to Ambassador Kirk to reiterate the importance of incorporating, in the Trans Pacific Partnership, (TPP), the Bipartisan Agreement…
Contacts: Sean Flynn, American University Washington College of Law, 202-274-4157, sflynn@wcl.american.edu Margot Kaminski, Yale Law School, margot.kaminski@yale.edu David Levine, Elon University School of Law, 336-279-9298, dlevine3@elon.edu The release of a Trade Promotion Authority bill yesterday, including provisions to increase Congressional…
To date, 200 people from around the world have signed the Third Global Congress Global Congress Declaration on Fundamental Public Interest Principles for International Intellectual Property Negotiations. The Declaration, drafted at the recent Global Congress in Cape Town, South Africa,…
Major unions in the U.S. and Europe have written US Trade Representative Al Froman and EU Director General for Trade Karel de Gucht, warning against provisions in the Trans Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)…
A Wall Street Journal blog by William Mauldin describes a recent meeting with Obama and his “trade team” to strategize over the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trade Promotion Authority. The end of the blog has the following list of participants,…
Researchers, scholars and policy specialists from over 40 countries drafted and endorsed a declaration of Fundamental Public Interest Principles for International Intellectual Property Negotiations that are starkly at odds with some trade agreement negotiations. The Principles were adopted at the…
USTR has proposed giving differential treatment to some of the TPP negotiating partners. Their plan would allow countries not classified as high income by the World Bank to delay implementation of some (not all) of the proposed TRIPS-Plus provisions that…
[Public Library of Science Blogs, Link (CC-BY)] Reshma Ramachandran and David Carroll warn that the Trans-Pacific Partnership will trample over access to affordable medicines Last month, Wikileaks posted the complete Intellectual Property (IP) Chapter of the secretly-negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement…
Inside U.S. Trade (Nov. 27, 2013) has reported that the U.S. floated a non-paper proposal for differential treatment and a transition period for developing country partners (Vietnam, Peru, Mexico, and Malaysia) with respect to some of its intellectual property demands…
[Cross posted on Heesob’s IP Blog] The followings were demanded by the U.S. negotiators but eventually withdrawn during the negotiation of FTA with South Korea. Patent term extension due to an approval delay: The US demanded a patent term extension…
Inside US Trade[1] and the USTR[2] have announced that the U.S. is floating new proposals on IP in its marathon Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations. Although the U.S. touts its new proposals as being balanced, as prioritizing access to medicines, and…