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Trans-Pacific Partnership: Trade deal could force Australian Government to spend millions to subsidise medicines, expert warns
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.
Intellectual property issues hinder TPP talks in Hawaii
16-Mar-2015 Jiji Press
Chief negotiators in Trans-Pacific Partnership talks failed to iron out differences over the last week, with intellectual property protection on medicines and environmental protection being key stumbling blocks.
US Ambassador confirms patent linkage under FTA includes biologics
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.
TPP free trade agreement would increase cost of medicine In Mexico, Peru, Chile, and other countries
4-Mar-2015 Latin Times
TPP — the Trans-PacificPartnership — is making waves from Peru to Australia, concerning public health officials and consumer advocates.
Will a new US-led IP empire in India put access to medicines at risk?
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
US, EU agriculture leaders try to ease trade concerns
23-Feb-2015 Farm Futures
US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack shared the stage with his counterpart EU commissioner Phil Hogan at the US Department of Agriculture’s annual Outlook Forum and discussed TTIP.
Affordable medicines could be at risk as US seeks to firm up protections
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.
Go to prison for sharing files? That’s what Hollywood wants in the secret TPP deal
13-Feb-2015 EFF
Like the various other digital copyright enforcement provisions in TPP, the criminal enforcement language loosely reflects the United States’ DMCA but is abstracted enough that the US can pressure other nations to enact rules that are much worse for users.
DNP+ response to RCEP negotiations on Intellectual Property ongoing in Thailand
11-Feb-2015 DNP+
Japan is pushing for intellectual property rules in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership that will undermine and delay access to affordable generic medecine in Asia.
What is brewing between India and the US on IPR?
5-Feb-2015 Business Today
Ssomething is brewing between the two countries on the issue of intellectual property rights.
Prof Stiglitz on TPP 2015
3-Feb-2015 Youtube
Professor Stiglitz addressing TPP negotiators in New York in January 2015.
Doctors Without Borders flies aerial banner to protest Obama trade deal
29-Jan-2015 MSF
MSF took its protest against the TPP to the skies, flying an aerial banner that read “Doctors to Obama: Keep #TPP Away From Our Medicines” along the Hudson River.
Missing: Intellectual property rights with a social lens
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
Cornish pasty ’at risk’ from EU-US trade deal
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
The grapes of wrath
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.
’We can’t protect every sausage,’ says German agriculture minister over TTIP deal
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.
It doesn’t matter who does the lobbying: Trade agreements aren’t the place for internet regulations
22-Dec-2014 EFF
Recent TiSA leaks show that not just content industry players, but now internet companies are lobbying for their interests in trade deals.
TISA negotiations: Yes to e-commerce, data flows, no to IPR, data protection?
17-Dec-2014 IP Watch
After two years of negotiations, the draft Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) stands at 17 horizontal and sector-specific proposals, negotiators told Intellectual Property Watch after the 2-5 December Geneva round of negotiations
The TPPA and HIV treatment in Vietnam
17-Dec-2014 SSRN
Only 30% of Vietnam’s eligible HIV patients would have access to ARVs under the US 2014 TPPA proposals, instead of the 68% receiving treatment today.
International Chamber of Commerce: Trade secret law should be harmonized, included in TPP
9-Dec-2014 Infojustice
The International Chamber of Commerce is urging the inclusion of strong trade secret provisions in the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement.