ISDS Case Map
intellectual property
An inquiry into computer and television piracy could break the impasse threatening to delay the start of the free trade deal with the US.
A call for organizational sign-ons from the Central America is Not For Sale Coalition
Today 57 organizations sent a letter to the trade and foreign ministers of EFTA member states urging them not to include provisions that would restrict access to medicines and farmers rights under the EFTA-SACU FTA
Barring major turns, any deal emerging from the talks will be a disaster for most Colombians.
The fifth round of negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru ended Friday without progress in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil. The controversial issues were agriculture and intellectual property.
In these issues papers, the author examines a subject of importance in the developing international intellectual property regime and highlights the key issues arising. The topics have been chosen following consultations with negotiators from developing countries
and respond to their concerns.
Korean trade union and social organisations have worked together in recent months to stop the Japan-Korea FTA, arguing that it will result in the abolition of more regulations protecting workers rights, and more privatisation of public services. They also say the average citizens' access to medical treatment and drugs will also be undermined by the FTA's excuse to “protect” intellectual property rights.
Prime Minister John Howard may bow to a concerted campaign by American drug companies against the amendments that the government was forced into accepting upon pressure from the Labor Party.
The European Union and Mercosur will resume trade negotiations today and decide whether the association agreement -- an “utmost geo-strategic and commercial interest” for Brussels -- can be reached before November 1 when a new team of European Commissioners takes over in Brussels.
Civil groups yesterday called for intellectual property (IP) to be excluded from the second round of the Thai-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiation because of fears it would give unjustified protection to rich IP developers at the expense of Thais.
