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Standing up to patent bullying
25-May-2016 The Hindu
The Ministry of Commerce must be cautious of Free Trade Agreements being negotiated with the European Union as well as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership that further strengthen or extend intellectual property (IP) monopolies.
Asia trade deal RCEP will undercut farmers’ control over seeds
25-May-2016 International Press Syndicate
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.
Is India holding the line against another TPP?
20-May-2016 East Asia Forum
Of the RCEP negotiating countries, it is India, rather than China, that has been the most outspoken in opposing US-style trade rules.
Letter from Colombian Embassy regarding Senate Finance, USTR pressure on Novartis compulsory license
12-May-2016 KEI
The letter says that this dispute over the compulsory license could prejudice resources for a new initiative called "Paz Colombia", as well as the US FTA with Colombia, and access to the TPP.
Why releasing text isn’t enough: behind the scenes of TTIP
3-May-2016 Electronic Frontier Foundation
As welcome as the leak is, it doesn’t fix these systemic flaws in the process of negotiating trade agreements such as TTIP and the TPP.
RCEP talks could affect startups by allowing patenting of computer software
25-Apr-2016 The Economic Times
Several startups and civil society members fought hard over the last year to prevent the allowing of software patents in India.
New threat against affordable medicines in trade negotiations with India and ASEAN
21-Apr-2016 MSF
Access to affordable medicines could be severely restricted for millions of people around the world under the current proposals in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement?
RCEP - draft IP chapter (15 Oct 2015 version)
21-Apr-2016 KEI
As published by KEI
RCEP: The other closed-door agreement to compromise users’ rights
21-Apr-2016 EFF
A secretive trade agreement currently being negotiated behind closed doors could lay down new, inflexible copyright standards across the Asia-Pacific region. If you are thinking of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, think again—we’re talking about the lesser-known Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). While RCEP doesn’t include the United States, it does include the two biggest Asian giants that the TPP omits—China and India.
The TPP: A huge boulder welded to the US elections.
14-Apr-2016 ALAI
The US presidential electoral campaign is the most important political process of the year. It takes place amid a crisis which is clearly economic in nature but which has also been transformed into a crisis that is all too clearly about the traditional political party system.
TPP: Integration or finance and profit?
14-Apr-2016 La República
The last ten years have left in our America important elements for reflecting on continental integration, and respecting the recent agreement of the Transpacific Economic Partnership (TPP), which has 12 state parties.
Diet debate on TPP deal begins amid opposition
6-Apr-2016 Japan Today
The Diet started deliberations on a Pacific Rim free trade deal, with the ruling parties looking to have it ratified and related legislation enacted during the current session ending June 1.
A trade deal for the 21st century: an alternative to the TPP
5-Apr-2016 Huffington Post
It is possible to envision a different pattern of trade which will offer benefits for the bulk of the population of the United States and also for our trading partners in the developing world.
Firms ignorant of intellectual rights
24-Mar-2016 Viet Nam News
Many Vietnamese firms are indifferent to intellectual property rights regulated in the Trans Pacific Strategic Partnership (TPP) agreement, despite the fact that Việt Nam is a signatory to the deal.
New mega-treaty in the pipeline: what does RCEP mean for farmers’ seeds in Asia?
9-Mar-2016 GRAIN
RCEP is being negotiated behind closed doors and could sneak into Asia, destroying the livelihoods of billions of people.
US industry body says India agreed to not issue ’compulsory’ drug licences
9-Mar-2016 Reuters
India has given private assurances that it will not grant licences allowing local firms to override patents and make cheap copies of drugs by big Western drugmakers.
As South Sudan joins East African Community, some experts worry over its IP laws
9-Mar-2016 Intellectual Property Watch
Raising concern over the lack of proper intellectual property laws in South Sudan, as the world’s newest nation’s admission into the East Africa Community (EAC) spurs anticipation of increased investment.
Harmonising IP laws across ASEAN: Is it possible?
4-Mar-2016 Today Online
The economic integration of the ASEAN Economic Community leads to many challenges in the harmonisation of trade-related laws across ASEAN’s 10 member nations.
Revisions needed in IP compliance
3-Mar-2016 Viet Nam News
Revision of the legal framework on intellectual property is recommended to ensure compliance with the EU – Viet Nam Free Trade Agreement.
The TPP kills
22-Feb-2016 ALAI
It’s no joke. The consequence that the Transpacific Treaty on Economic Cooperation (the English acronym for which is the TPP) recently signed by 12 countries in the Pacific Ocean, including Mexico, Peru and Chile on this side of the Pond, has on access to medicines is brutal.