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The U.S. has recently begun to include in free trade agreements provisions regarding government health care programs which reimburse entities for prescription drugs. The U.S.-Australia free trade agreement was the first to include such provisions, followed by the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (Korea FTA). Similar language is likely to be included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership […]
Google has released a new “Transparency Report” which presents country-level data on the number of takedown requests and requests for identities of users that Google received from governments between July and December of 2010. The report also contains data on how many of times Google complied with these requests. Google engineer Matt Braithwhite wrote in […]
The following blog was written by Geraldine Jaurez, and posted to TechDirt: Last Tuesday, the Second Standing Commission of the Mexican Congress unanimously approved a resolution promoted by Senator Francisco Castellon P(artido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD) exhorting the Executive to not sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The resolution was tabled and then voted […]
IP Enforcement Roundup Second Standing Commission of the Mexican Congress Rejects ACTA The Second Standing Commission of the Mexican Congress has approved a resolution introduced by Sen. Francisco Javier Castellón Fonseca urging the President to not sign ACTA. Furthermore, senators from Mexico’s National Action Party (PAN), assured Mexican civil society in a consultation that ACTA […]
Disagreements over intellectual property and agricultural provisions (as well as concerns over the unfolding EU debt crisis) have led to an impasse in trade negotiations between the EU and the Latin American trade bloc Mercosur. Latin American countries object to TRIPS plus provisions on patents, copyrights, data exclusivity, and border measures proposed by the EU. […]
Vietnam hosted the seventh round of Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations from June 20-24 in Ho Chi Min City. The US Trade Representative issued a press release announcing “step-by-step progress,” and said that negotiators “reviewed new proposals that the United States and other TPP countries tabled this round; including on intellectual property, transparency, telecommunications, customs, environment; […]
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