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In boon for Big Pharma, TTIP would lock in high drug prices: report
5-Oct-2016 Common Dreams
’Unfortunately, trade agreements have become one more mechanism for drug corporations to expand their monopoly power’
Big Pharma lobbying in TTIP: Bad news for patients
28-Sep-2016 Corporate Europe Observatory
Big Pharma is everything but shy when it comes to lobbying EU policy-makers. But what exactly are these groups lobbying for in TTIP?
EU-Mercosur FTA - draft chapter on intellectual property rights (EU proposal, Sep 2016)
23-Sep-2016 European Commission
As released by the European Commission
Protection of IPRs under TPP Agreement: Some challenges for Việt Nam
22-Sep-2016 Viet Nam News
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.
Where is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership headed?
9-Sep-2016 Spicy IP
The latest round of RCEP talks paints a worrisome picture for the global south, given that it will bring 3.5 billion people and 12% of world trade into its fold.
Bilateral investment treaty negotiations between India and US: Problems and prospects
21-Aug-2016 IRA
Outline of the differences between two countries’ model BITs as they seek to negotiate an agreement.
Where does India stand on intellectual property rights in the digital economy?
17-Aug-2016 Observer Research Foundation
A scrutiny of TPP, TISA and RCEP provisions that deal with IP and the digital economy vis-a-vis the current Indian legal standard.
Call to remove IP clauses from trade pact
15-Aug-2016 The Hindu
As the next round of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade talks begin in Vietnam, humanitarian aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières calls for the removal of intellectual property provisions from the agreement
Free people from ‘dictatorship’ of 0.01%
10-Aug-2016 Deccan Chronicle
Through RCEP, Asian countries may be dragged into the TPP under pressure of harmonisation, especially on issues related to seed, warns Vandana Shiva
Clause for evergreening of patents dropped from RCEP: Nirmala
8-Aug-2016 PTI
Provisions related to evergreening of patents in the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) was dropped after stiff opposition from India, Parliament was informed today.
New trade deals legalise corporate theft, make farmers’ seeds illegal
18-Jul-2016 GRAIN
FTAs negotiated outside the WTO go further and help US and European corporations get what they weren’t able to achieve under TRIPS.
TPP heightens urgency for national drug coverage in Canada
6-Jul-2016
Adopting a national pharmacare program would offset the higher drug prices expected with the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, write Tanishq Suryavanshi and Jake Hirsch-Allen.
VN Gov’t to toughen IP rights enforcement
5-Jul-2016 Vietnamnet Bridge
Improving enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights is now high on the Government’s agenda as part of its efforts to uphold international IP commitments, especially those in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Farmers’ GMO fears ’unfounded’
22-Jun-2016 The Bangkok Post
Farmers are concerned about the impact of the TPP intellectual property chapter that prevents them from saving and using seeds that contain patented plant material.
Civil society in Latin America campaigns against Trans-Pacific Partnership
22-Jun-2016 Inter-Press Service
Civil society organisations from Chile, Mexico and Peru are pressing their legislatures and those of other countries not to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
India and the European Free Trade Association...
14-Jun-2016 The Indian Awaaz
India and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) agreed to resolve the outstanding issues for resumption of negotiations for a proposed free trade agreement that were stuck on issues related with intellectual property rights.
Un traité transpacifique au seul profit des multinationales américaines
13-Jun-2016 La Tribune
Le traité transpacifique (TPP), entre les États-Unis et l’Asie, ne contribuerait en rien au développement du commerce. Il renforcerait simplement des droits de propriété intellectuelle, au profit des grandes entreprises américaines.
Civil society letter to countries negotiating Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
13-Jun-2016 TWN
We call on countries negotiating the RCEP agreement and to protect the flexibilities available under the WTO TRIPS agreement for Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
The ASEAN Economic Community and what it means for intellectual property
1-Jun-2016 ASEAN Briefing
The establishment of the AEC will almost certainly make IP protection even more, rather than less of an issue for foreign businesses.
At landmark BRICS meet, India raises public health, pharma sector concerns
25-May-2016 First Post
A high-level panel hosted by India discusses the issues of trade deals that inhibit access to medicines and also limit policy space for governments to legislate in public interest.