Brook K. Baker and Katrina Geddes Abstract: Despite the deep irony of free trade agreements being subverted to codify and extend anti-competitive monopoly rights and despite the equally deep irony of foreign investors having greater enforcement rights than local investors,…
Ministerial talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) collapsed in Maui last month when trade ministers sparred over issues including monopolies for biotech drugs, which include many cancer treatments. Talks resumed this weekend in Atlanta, where negotiators are reportedly exploring a…
Author: Carlos Correa Abstract: Most free trade agreements signed by the United States, the European Union and the members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in the last 15 years contain chapters on intellectual property rights with provisions applicable…
[Maira Sutton, EFF, Link (CC-BY)] Copyright restricts all kinds of important, everyday uses of creative works—even worse, these strict rules last nearly two lifetimes for any given work. We are fighting to reform and push back against these restrictions in…
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a highly secretive trade agreement being negotiated between the US and eleven Pacific Rim countries, including Australia. Having obtained a fast-track authority from the United States Congress, US President Barack Obama is keen to finalise…
Cross posted from the Third World Network page on IP and Access to Medicines. SUMMARY: Biologics at monopoly prices are extremely expensive and are a growing share of medicines, including life-saving medicines. The latest leaked TPP IP chapter proposes a…
After a long campaign by right-to-health activists and TPP partners, it appears that the U.S. has finally dropped its efforts in TPP negotiations to require patent coverage for new forms of known products that lack evidence of enhanced efficacy. The…
Knowledge Ecology International has leaked the Trans Pacific Partnership draft chapter on intellectual property, dated May 11, 2015. They have also posted Director James Love’s initial comments on the patents and test data provisions, as well as his comments on…
In Peru, there is an internal confrontation between ministries due to the data protection provisions of the TPP. The Ministry of Health opposes to the extension on data protection due to the effects than it can have on access over…
This post contains a brief summary of, and excerpt from, a report published by the Third World Network. Click here for the full report. (eds.) This document summarises some of the ways in which the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) can…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | CONTACT: Nicole L’Esperance (Blumenauer), 202-225-4811 Aaron Hunter (Davis), 202-225-1686 Patrick Malone (Himes), 202- 225-5541 Washington, DC – As Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiators meet in Hawaii, Representatives Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Susan Davis (CA-53), Jim Himes (CT-04), and…
See also, Public Knowledge press release and this letter in PDF (CC-BY-SA) Dear Ambassador Froman: All consumers are users of intellectual property. The average American interacts with hundreds, if not thousands, of IP-protected products and goods each day. The Trans-Pacific…