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Enclosed are the presentation materials of Sharon Treat, State Legislator from Maine, on the US proposal for a TPP chapter restricting pharmaceutical reimbursement programs. Sharon testified that, if applied to the US (unlike similar chapters with Korea and Australia), the current operation of the US Medicaid program would violate the chapter. Author Sean Flynn
This briefing paper provides preliminary analysis of the leaked U.S. proposal for an intellectual property chapter in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. What is clear from this analysis is that the U.S. proposal, if adopted, would create the most extreme, anti-consumer and anti-development international instrument on intellectual property to date. Its provisions go far […]
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Author Sean Flynn
For immediate release. By Sean Flynn, sflynn@wcl.american.edu Lima, Peru. Among the US Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) proposals leaked today was a proposed chapter on “Transparency and Procedural Fairness for Healthcare Technologies,” more widely known as the Pharmaceutical Pricing Chapter. All countries negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement should reject this proposal, the primary goal of […]
Representatives Levin, Waxman, McDermott and Conyers have written U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk to “underscore the importance of upholding the U.S. commitment to advancing an agreement that safeguards access to medicines in the developing world.” Specifically, the letter asks USTR not to backtrack away from the 2007 “May 10” policy on IP and healthcare – […]
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) has written the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, asking it to form an official opinion on ACTA. The letter references the EU Academics letter arguing that ACTA is inconsistent with EU law; the European Parliament International Trade Committee study showing the same […]
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