ISDS Case Map
intellectual property
Public Citizen and Forum on Democracy and Trade met with US Trade Representative staff on January 3 to be briefed on the Obama administration’s negotiation of the TPP with respect to the planned IP chapter and the rumored chapter on pharmaceutical reimbursement programs.
Kenyan activists have written to the European Union and the Kenya Government, protesting what they term damaging trade agreements such as the European Union-India Free Trade Agreement and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. They say the pacts would damage the fight against Aids.
China, Japan and South Korea will sign a treaty in May to boost cross-border investment and better protect intellectual property, according to a report.
Of particular concern is that proposed TPPA multilateral
investor–state dispute settlement procedures would allow
US corporations (as well as those of other TPPA nations) to
obtain damages against Australian governments through
international arbitral proceedings if their investments are
impeded by Australian public health and environment
protection legislation.
Staunch Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement critic Jane Kelsey says a campaign by the powerful US entertainment industry to use the proposed free trade deal to make internet firms liable for illegal user downloads must not succeed.
Hard lobbying by the European Union, home to many of the world's largest pharmaceutical firms like Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis and Roche, has struck a chord with India's Prime Minister's Office, which is now 'putting pressure' on a reluctant commerce and industry ministry to include a
contentious IPR chapter in the proposed India-EU trade and investment pact.
Draft consolidated version of the IPR text in preparation for IPR discussions during the week of 12th July 2010 in Delhi.
A draft of the IPR chapter of the EU-India FTA, made publicly available for
the first time, provides insight into
India's response in July 2010 to several EU proposals on intellectual
property protection and enforcement.
Hollywood wants TPP participants to “introduce statutory penalties for IP infringement, draft new laws regarding ISP liability, reduce the threshold to commercial scale infringement and target torrent search engines”. Look familiar to you?
The main focus of this comprehensive policy guide—the first of its kind solely dedicated to the region—is to analyze the effect of bilateral trade agreements on public health regimes and access to medicines in the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region.
