Last week the U.S. tabled additional text on intellectual property at the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiating round in Chicago. The text is confidential, but trade officials told reporters that it includes TRIPS-Plus measures affecting access to medicines such as”stronger patent…
The statement of the administration today continues its practice of actively thwarting the release of meaningful information about its positions in closed door international law making. The statement says little about what the administration’s actual trade policy on medicines issues…
Here is some of what we learned at the TPP negotiation in Chicago this week. Transparency will be worse than ACTA. In response to the repeated calls in civil society and academic presentations for TPP negotiators to increase transparency in…
With the U.S. round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) underway in Chicago, intellectual property and information policy experts from around the world have released a Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest that challenges the dominant direction…
Public Citizen Conference Call Briefing on Trade Negotiations Underway in the United States Contact: Arthur Stamoulis arthur@citizenstrade.org WHAT: Fair trade advocates from the United States, New Zealand and Australia will provide a press briefing via conference call on key…
The next negotiating round of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement will be held in Chicago from September 6-15. Negotiators hope to make progress on outstanding issues including intellectual property protection, which has been an area in which negotiators have had…
WEBCAST August 25, 2011 10:00 Release of EU Greens Draft Analysis of ACTA 11:00 Analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement CONTACTS: Megan Smith | megans@wcl.american.edu | 202-274-4276 Sean Flynn | sflynn@wcl.american.edu | 202-294-5749 Draft Reports: Draft Report:…
On August 10, USTR staff met civil society actors to discuss the intellectual property and pharmaceutical provisions in the Trans Pacific Partnership. USTR was represented by Probit Mehta, Stan McCoy and Jared Raglad, and the civil society actors were James…
In a letter to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, ten members of Congress have asked for a meeting to discuss “the approach your office is considering for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement negotiations that would undermine public health and access…
Forty Members of the House of Representatives have written President Obama urging that the intellectual property chapter of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) include a requirement that countries offer 12 years of data exclusivity for new biologic drugs: “…we urge…
On July 26, fourteen Democratic Members of the House Committee on Ways and Means have written President Obama asking that a policy deal struck in 2007 by Congressional Democrats and the Bush Administration to guide the requirements of Free Trade…
A July 13 letter from 22 Members of Congress to President Obama asks the administration to seek high standards for intellectual property protection in the Trans Pacific Partnership, and to use the provisions in the pending Korea-US Free Trade Agreement…