ISDS Case Map
intellectual property
No matter how far advanced the parties are towards agreeing on repressive copyright rules, it is still not too late for them to turn back.
The pharmaceutical industry, with worldwide sales of more than US$980 billion in 2013, stood to be one of the biggest winners under TPP. The developing countries would lose out. The United States and Canada looked set to win big.
Less well known than the notorious Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is engendering growing opposition because of its similar oppressive provisions.
A number of chapters of the TPP will affect the creative artists, cultural industries and internet freedom — including intellectual property, investment, and electronic commerce.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for the removal of damaging intellectual property provisions in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) that would risk locking in high drug prices.
Failure to reach agreement over expanded intellectual property (IP) protections for medicines has proven to be a stumbling block to completion of the 12-country Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations.
Hollywood groups are behaving like spoiled children: if they don't get exactly what they want, they'll whine to policymakers until they do.
Negotiators dropped patent and copyright demands but failed to garner agreement.
While Japan has strict copyright laws, self-published comics tend to get a free pass and flourish. A new trade agreement could change that forever.
The KEI briefing note underlines the evolution of certain sections of the TPP negotiating text on patents and patentable subject matter.
