Yesterday, we sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk, signed by over 30 legal scholars, criticizing the decision to cancel full day stakeholder presentations for the current round of negotiations being held...
Read MoreOver 30 legal academics from current or potential future Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiating countries wrote to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today. The letter, the text of which is posted below,...
Read MoreWritten remarks of Sean Flynn, American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property Press briefing on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiation, May 2, 2012, 2pm EST....
Read MoreBeginning with the 2009 report, the USTR began hosting a public hearing and making small efforts to improve public participation in the Special 301 adjudication process. But, as in the past, the 2012 report shows that USTR...
Read More(with research by Marcela Palacio Puerta) The latest example of a rushed copyright reform process to implement an unbalanced law while stifling public debate occurred in Colombia last week. Over a scant 18 days (including a...
Read MoreAt a PIJIP-hosted seminar on intellectual property and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) last week, present and former Chilean trade officials questioned whether joining the TPP would be worth its costs if it...
Read MoreThe enclosed draft chart compares the IP enforcement provisions of the US TPP proposal with TRIPS and ACTA. It is a work in progress and does not contain every section yet. This document is being shared with negotiators at the...
Read MoreThis morning a group of nearly 70 international intellectual property academics and experts wrote to the Colombian legislature “in response to what we perceive as a hurried process to implement the provisions of the...
Read MoreStakeholder registering for the Dallas round of TPP negotiators have been informed that the conference style presentation format supported at all previous rounds has been disbanded and in place stakeholders will be given options...
Read MoreThe occasion of Senator’s Wyden’s proposed amendments halting the US ratification of ACTA without express (ex post) congressional approval provides a fine time to analyze the legal justification the administration has offered...
Read MoreThe opposition to the “access window” medicines chapter is drawing increased press coverage. A recent article by Inside-U.S. Trade reports on the opposition, explaining that other TPP member countries “have...
Read MoreThe Maine House of Representatives unanimously resolved to demand that President Obama increase transparency and public participation in the increasingly controversial Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations. The...
Read MoreThe next round of Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations on intellectual property issues are slated to be negotiated in an “intersessional” meeting April 9-13 in Santiago, Chile, several sources in Chile have...
Read MoreACTA’s biggest EU proponent, Karel De Gucht, the European Commissioner driving ACTA, is now admitting that the agreement may be doomed in Europe. Techdirt reports minutes from a recent Commission meeting in which De Gucht...
Read MoreContrasting with apparent progress on some other chapters, which were declared “on track” by negotiators, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement’s intellectual property chapter appears to have stalled in Melbourne. According to...
Read MoreMELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. Negotiations of the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) have turned to discussions of the pharmaceutical reimbursement chapter today. This issue is highly controversial and represents a very recent...
Read MoreMELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. At this week’s Melbourne round of TPP negotiations, the Computers and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) — representing tech companies like Google, Facebook, E-Bay and Yahoo — has...
Read More[Enclosed are my comments at the TPP stakeholder forum in Melbourne, Australia, March 4, 2012. You may also see my Presentation Slides: What ACTA should learn from TPP and listen via Audio File TPP Presentation March 4 2012] I...
Read MoreOn Friday March 2 (Australian time), the Australian Digital Alliance, NZRise, Knowledge Ecology International, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Internet NZ and New Zealand Computer Society hosted a briefing...
Read MoreGood morning. Thank you for having me. I continue to believe that having a public hearing as part of the 301 process is important. My comments today will be in the vein of continuing the trend toward making this a more open,...
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