19-Mar-2015
Australia Broadcasting Corporation
Australia’s primary negotiator on medicines for the US-Australia FTA, Dr Ruth Lopert, warns that the TPP could force the Australian Government to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidise medicines.
11-Mar-2015
Heesob’s IP Blog
The US Ambassador Lippert has sent a letter to the Korean Minister of Food and Drug Safety requesting protection of biologics under the patent linkage system. He also confirmed that the US seeks the same protection in TPP.
25-Feb-2015
Financial Express
Prof Brook K Baker, Professor of Law and Northeastern University, cautions that the Modi government’s accelerating flirtation with the US and its investors is dangerous to hundreds of millions of people worldwide whose lives depend on Indian generics
23-Feb-2015
Sydney Morning Herald
Access to affordable medicines could be under threat in Australia if the United States gets its way in secretive negotiations over a massive trade deal involving 12 Pacific-region countries, academics have warned.
5-Feb-2015
Business Today
Ssomething is brewing between the two countries on the issue of intellectual property rights.
21-Jan-2015
India Together
The Modi government has moved fast and furious on charting a new policy regarding intellectual property rights, in close contact with the US
7-Jan-2015
The Independent
The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership could mean that the EU may not be able to uphold laws that protect regional foods
5-Jan-2015
Washington Post Magazine
The US is among very few countries that allow the Champagne name to be used on wine not from Champagne, France. TTIP may change that.
5-Jan-2015
Deutsche Welle
Germany’s Minister of Agriculture, Christian Schmidt, says some German specialties may be stripped of their regional protection due to a free-trade deal with the US.