WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE PRESS RELEASE: House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) today announced that the Committee on Ways and Means will hold a hearing on the status of President Barack Obama’s trade policy agenda. The hearing…
Against the odds, the government of the recently-elected Brazilian President Dilma Roussef didn´t start well for the critics of the Brazilian copyright law and activists of the movement on access to knowledge, who highlights the need to enforce exceptions and…
The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has requested written submissions from the public in advance of the 2011 Special 301 Report. It has also announced a public hearing on the special 301 Report to be held March 2. Any member of…
This year, USTR conducted an Out of Cycle Review of intellectual property practices in Thailand and the Philippines. Both countries have come under pressure from the US over issues surrounding IP and access to medicines. To view the comments, go…
Steps USTR Can Take to Address Key Concerns in IP-Health Platform. May 2009. (PDF) Note – this document accompanied the U.S. Civil Society Platform on Trade-Related Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines Issues, available here.
Download Platform (PDF) The following represents four key goals that our organizations agree should guide US trade policy and practice with regard to intellectual property (IP) and health matters. Under each goal we have listed specific actions that we…