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Recent free trade agreements with Korea and Australia have included provisions regulating pharmaceutical reimbursement programs operated at the “central level of government” of member countries. Currently, the U.S. is in negotiations to complete the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, which insiders say will likely include language similar to that in the Korea agreement. Each of […]
AIDS Groups outraged as US declares war on generic AIDS medicines through Free Trade Agreement Negotiations with Vietnam and Malaysia 23 June 2011, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh – The Asia Pacific Network of Positive People (APN+) is expressing outrage at ongoing free trade agreement negotiations by the United States with Vietnam and Malaysia that […]
For immediate release. Attribute to Sean Flynn, Associate Director, American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, on the decision of the Supreme Court in IMS v. Sorrell: For the first time in the Court’s history it has extended heightened First Amendment protection to the commercial trading of information that […]
Geraldine Juarez in Mexico, geraldine@hipertextual.com, reports that the Mexican Congress has approved a resolution asking the president to not sign ACTA. She reports that, in a public hearing after the voting with citizens, senators from the presidential party PAN assured Mexican civil society that ACTA will not be approved by parliament during this administration. Link […]
By ICTSD The past decade has been a turbulent one for the global intellectual property system in general and for the international copyright regime in particular. On the one hand, there is a trend pressing for greater access to knowledge that is fuelled by an unprecedented growth in communication and information technologies. This is exemplified […]
As the latest round of negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement starts this week in Vietnam, some member countries are publicly defending their prescription drug reimbursement programs. If the TPP agreement contains language similar to the pharmaceutical chapter of the Korea free trade agreement—which sources say is a likely possibility—they may […]
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