ISDS Case Map
intellectual property
Activists have called on Thailand's National Legislative Assembly to remove trade in waste and micro-organism patenting from the Japan-Thailand Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
What appears to be the experience of countries that have negotiated FTAs is that the
process of negotiations does not conclude with the signing of the agreement. The implementation
process is a complex and tedious one. In addition, once this implementation phase has been
concluded, a subsequent and difficult phase begins with the monitoring of this implementation.
The EU is planning a more detailed intellectual property chapter in its FTAs. In form, not in content, it would be closer to the “US-type” with “detailed things” listed.
In what is believed to be the first ever human rights impact assessment of a US FTA conducted at national level, the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand in a draft report concludes that the FTA that Thailand has been negotiating with the United States will violate the human rights of Thai people and affect the country's sovereignty.
The Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced on Thursday that Under-Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Jon Dudas and Ajay Dua, secretary of the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry (IMCI), recently signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Bilateral Cooperation between the United States and India on intellectual property issues.
This study examines the impacts of TRIPS-plus rules on pharmaceutical patents as enshrined in US FTAs by looking at the case of Thailand.
Developing countries that have free trade agreements (FTAs) with the United States received an email in the form of a “démarche” from the US government before the 4-8 December 2006 meeting of the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights saying that it had become apparent that the WHO was trying to go beyond its competency and address issues which could have impact on the scope and effect of FTAs.
The EU has sought to ease frustrations that agricultural trade within the Mediterranean region has not advanced as quickly as hoped.
