Earlier this week, USTR released the 2012 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, which describes trade barriers in the EU, the Arab League, and 58 countries. The report includes “an inventory of the most important foreign barriers affecting…
Stakeholder registering for the Dallas round of TPP negotiators have been informed that the conference style presentation format supported at all previous rounds has been disbanded and in place stakeholders will be given options of setting up “tables” to pass…
by Geraldine Jaurez Yesterday there was a meeting of the NAFTA group, which put out this joint statement. Excerpt on ACTA: As leading sources of innovation and creativity, our three countries are committed to the protection and enforcement of intellectual…
As the TPP heads for its next intersessional meeting on IP provisions in April, public concern about the agreement has been growing, often tied to the previous public outcry over SOPA/PIPA and ACTA. The enforcement provisions in the IP section…
Wyden has proposed two amendments relating to intellectual property and trade policy to the Jumpstarting Our Business Sector Act (JOBS Act). The first is a reaction to the Obama Administration’s assertion that it can bind the United States to ACTA…
Public Citizen has published “Dangers for Access to Medicines in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Intellectual Property Proposal and Australian Law.” Click here for the report.
Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, has written a piece on the TPP in the American Prospect. Regarding the lack of transparency, she warns: “The implications for the principle and practice of democratic governance are dire. Not…
The opposition to the “access window” medicines chapter is drawing increased press coverage. A recent article by Inside-U.S. Trade reports on the opposition, explaining that other TPP member countries “have refused to accept the U.S. access to medicines proposal or its…
The Maine House of Representatives unanimously resolved to demand that President Obama increase transparency and public participation in the increasingly controversial Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations. The resolution explains its concerns as arising from the shift of trade agreements…
The next round of Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations on intellectual property issues are slated to be negotiated in an “intersessional” meeting April 9-13 in Santiago, Chile, several sources in Chile have confirmed. The Santiago round will be focused on…
Contrasting with apparent progress on some other chapters, which were declared “on track” by negotiators, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement’s intellectual property chapter appears to have stalled in Melbourne. According to some sources, the 10 day negotiation yielded no meaningful progress…
WYDEN (at 7:02): Let me turn, and wrap up, with some questions again about intellectual property, because the same issues that were on the table in the Protect IP Act, the Stop Online Piracy Act, the discussion we had with…