Photos from TPP Protest in Lima, Peru During the October Negotiating Round
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Statement: Leaked US Proposal for a TPP Pharmaceutical Chapter
For immediate release. By Sean Flynn, sflynn@wcl.american.edu Lima, Peru. Among the US Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) proposals leaked today was a proposed chapter on “Transparency and Procedural Fairness for Healthcare...
Read MoreStatement on Senator Wyden’s Letter on ACTA and the Constitution
Statement and FAQ on ACTA and the Constitution Sean M Fiil Flynn Associate Director Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) American University Washington College of Law (202) 274-4157; Cell...
Read MoreCall for Papers: Toward a Positive Agenda in International Intellectual Property Law
American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property is seeking contributions to the online PIJIP Working Paper Series and for a Focus Issue of the American University...
Read MoreUSTR’s Precedents do not justify ACTA as sole executive agreement
In the fact sheet from USTR on ACTA, which appears to be the document that was being floated to cleared advisors as the “signing statement,” USTR points to four agreements (in addition to GATT) that justify its entry into ACTA...
Read MoreACTA’s Threat to Access to Medicines
Next week, PIJIP Fellows Bijan Madhani and Michael Vasquez and I will be releasing our study for the EU parliament on the impact of ACTA on access to medicines in developing countries. A draft of the paper was released last...
Read MoreACTA Not Consistent with US Law
When the US signs ACTA tomorrow in Japan, the signing statement is likely to state something like “ACTA is entirely consistent with US law and therefore requires no implementing legislation.” This will be a defense...
Read MoreWho is Signing ACTA: State of Play Cont’d
ACTA to Be Signed – But Can it Enter into Force? It has been reported in global press this week that ACTA will be signed October 1 in Japan. http://goo.gl/nC0PL But that does not mean that ACTA actually goes into effect....
Read MoreACTA to Be Signed – But Can it Enter into Force?
It has been reported in the global press this week that ACTA will be signed October 1 in Japan. But that does not mean that ACTA actually goes into effect. ACTA Article 40 states that the “Agreement shall enter into force...
Read MoreAt TTP Negotiating Round, USTR Holds Firm on Secrecy and IP Maximalism
Here is some of what we learned at the TPP negotiation in Chicago this week. Transparency will be worse than ACTA. In response to the repeated calls in civil society and academic presentations for TPP negotiators to increase...
Read MoreGlobal Congress Issues Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
With the U.S. round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) underway in Chicago, intellectual property and information policy experts from around the world have released a Washington Declaration on Intellectual...
Read MoreGlobal Congress on Public Interest Intellectual Property Law
SAVE THE DATE: August 25-27, 2011 American University Washington College of Law 4801 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC, 20016 Please mark your calendars and plan to participate in one of the most important meetings on...
Read MoreStatement in response to IMS v. Sorrell, US Sct
For immediate release. Attribute to Sean Flynn, Associate Director, American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, on the decision of the Supreme Court in IMS v. Sorrell:...
Read MoreMexico Congress Rejects ACTA
Geraldine Juarez in Mexico, geraldine@hipertextual.com, reports that the Mexican Congress has approved a resolution asking the president to not sign ACTA. She reports that, in a public hearing after the voting with citizens,...
Read MoreRadio New Zealand on TPP Pharma Chapter
Two recent news stories on Radio New Zealand covered the potential for a pharmaceutical chapter in the TPP. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/78135/pharmaceutical-industry-links-with-senators-revealed...
Read MoreWIPO’s Gurry Coopts “Positive Agenda” for Industry Concerns
In a video interview from the World Copyright Summit on June 8, Francis Gurry, the Director General of WIPO, makes a (possibly unintended) effort to coop the “positive agenda” terminology of advocates for the development agenda...
Read MoreShape of U.S. TPP Pharmaceuticals Chapter Emerges
Sources knowledgeable about the U.S. negotiating position in the TPP confirm that the U.S. has now drafted a pharmaceutical chapter for the TPP negotiations. The chapter is modeled on the Korea-US (KORUS) FTA’s pharmaceutical...
Read MoreInitial Reaction to the 2011 Special 301 Report
The U.S. Trade Representative’s 2011 Special 301 Report was released yesterday afternoon at about 4pm. (James Love from Knowledge Ecology International has an excellent blog on it here.) Overall, this year’s Special...
Read MoreMPEE Study Signals that IP for Media and Medicines Cause Similar Problems for Middle Income Countries: Exclusionary Pricing
Today at New York University I will be participating in the official launch of the multi-year multi-country study of Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (http://piracy.ssrc.org), edited by Joe Karaganis at SSRC. Mike Palmedo and...
Read MoreComments to USTR Submitted for ACTA: Thirty Professors Say It Requires Congressional Approval
Click here for selected comments to USTR on ACTA from Civil Society Groups Cick here for the complete docket of comments (ustr-2010-0014) on regulations.gov Comment by Thirty Law Professors: SUMMARY: We write to call on the...
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