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22-Sep-2016 Viet Nam News
Protection of IPRs under TPP Agreement: Some challenges for Việt Nam
The issue of intellectual property (IP) in Chapter 18 and the annexes of the TPP pose many challenges for Việt Nam, in terms of both legal aspects and IPR enforcement. This article analyzes some of these challenges.
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29-Mar-2023 Devex
Hungary digs in against Europe’s Africa-Caribbean-Pacific deal
Something has to give, and it’s either Hungary, the European Union, or a decadeslong partnership between the EU and 79 African, Caribbean, and Pacific states that many say has had its day.
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17-Jun-2019 Budapest Business Journal
Hungary appeals Sodexo award with ICSID
Hungary has filed to annul an award of some EUR 73 million, before interest, to French food voucher company Sodexo, granted in an arbitration ruling by the World Bankʼs International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), state news agency MTI reported, citing case information on ICSIDʼs website.
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1-Dec-2020 Counter Punch
Far from a change, RCEP agreement is more capitalism as usual
“It’s not as bad as the worst agreements out there” really shouldn’t be a cause for celebration.
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13-Nov-2013
Hungary supports EU-Singapore free trade agreement
Hungary has given its strong support for the early ratification of the European Union-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
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24-Jan-2017 Budapest Business Journal
On failing TTIP, Orbán urges new Hungary-U.S. pact
The Hungarian government is seeking to sign a “new” trade pact with the United States as the planned TTIP “will not happen”
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17-May-2010 Revista Semillas
Biodiversity in the FTAs with the USA and Europe: the crisis of the Andean integration process
While the Andean countries initially called for a balance to be struck between IPRs and the Andean countries’ interests – in particular education, culture, research, access to medicines, public health, food security, environmental protection, access to information, and technology transfer – Europe has insisted on measures to further entrench the intellectual property protection aspects of regional integration.
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9-Mar-2010 Revista Semillas
La biodiversidad en los TLC con Estados Unidos y Europa: La crisis del proceso de integración andina
Su inclusión en los TLC andinos, significa la puesta en marcha de los procedimientos jurídicos definidos en los Acuerdos comerciales globales, para facilitar y garantizar el acceso a los recursos genéticos de la región así como la privatización de los conocimientos tradicionales a través de los sistemas de propiedad intelectual.
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17-Nov-2015 IATP
TPP fine print: Biotech seed companies win again
The TPP requires countries to join international patent treaties that serve the interests of global biotech seed companies.
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1-Jun-2018 Asia Times
China’s Belt and Road a dilemma for Germany
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi tried to ease Germany’s concerns over Beijing’s cooperation with 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, which many European Union leaders consider a threat to the bloc’s integration, during his visit to Berlin on Thursday.
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25-May-2016 International Press Syndicate
Asia trade deal RCEP will undercut farmers’ control over seeds
According to the latest leaked draft of the RCEP agreement, the negotiating countries fall into two camps when it comes to legal rights over biodiversity and traditional knowledge useful for food production and medicine.
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15-Jan-2019 Budapest Business Journal
Szijjártó meets with Belarusian counterpart in Minsk
Hungary and Belarus signed an investment protection agreement.
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21-Jul-2016 Vietnamnet Bridge
EU–VN Free Trade Agreement set to lure European SMEs to Vietnam
A delegation of 30 European pharmaceutical firms in the environment and water sectors paid a working visit to Ho Chi Minh City to research the market and explore opportunities.
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7-Dec-2022 Business Recorder
Proposed BIT with Hungary: Differences emerge between BoI, ministries over proposal
There are two sticking points in the negotiations of the Pakistan-Hungary BIT: one is “Expropriation” and the other is “Subrogation”.
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14-Apr-2008 BI-ME
Qatar and Hungary to sign economic cooperation
Hungary and Qatar are expected to sign a slew of agreements, including investment protection and double-taxation avoidance, this year to strengthen economic relations.
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12-Oct-2016 GRAIN
Bocoran bab baru Persetujuan Perdagangan Asia menunjukkan RCEP akan menghilangkan penguasaan petani atas benih
Sejak Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) disetujui, masyarakat sadar adanya perjanjian perdagangan besar-besaran lain yang sedang dinegosiasikan di belakang layar di wilayah Asia-Pasifik. Seperti TPP, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) mengancam untuk meningkatkan kekuatan korporasi di negara anggota, meninggalkan masyarakat dengan sedikit celah untuk menyatakan hak atas lahan, makanan, obat-obatan, dan benih.
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28-Jun-2005 ICTSD
Current developments and trends in the field of intellectual property: implications for Arab countries
Developments relating to protection of IP in Arab countries have, in general, received less attention from stakeholders, particularly civil society, than in other developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. In this connection, the aim of this paper is to stress the need for Arab countries to adopt a more development-oriented perspective on IP protection.
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29-Feb-2008 Prensa Libre
Costa Rica: Indígenas externan oposición contra proyectos del TLC
Un grupo de indígenas costarricenses no se hizo esperar para mostrar su rotunda oposición ante la prórroga que el Gobierno dio para que se aprueben los proyectos necesarios del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC), de los cuales son opositores
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15-Apr-2005
Negociaciones de propiedad intelectual en el TLC: crónica de una muerte anunciada...
La lectura de los informes oficiales que presenta el Ministerio de Comercio sobre las negociaciones del TLC (www.tlc.gov.ec), deja una extraña sensación en la que se mezcla el desconcierto y la indignación pero adicionalmente permite predecir claramente como terminarán
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10-Apr-2005 Rebelión
De transnacionales, TLC y seguridad nacional
Las millonarias campañas oficiales en los medios de comunicación y los discursos de las cúpulas empresariales, pretenden justificar la ratificación del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Centroamérica, República Dominicana y Estados Unidos (TLC CA-RD-EU), al presentarlo como la panacea a los problemas estructurales que históricamente han padecido las economías periféricas centroamericanas.