The U.S. Trade Representative is supporting the ability...
The U.S. Trade Representative is supporting the ability of third parties in Trans-Pacific Partnership countries to formally object to a patent at the initial application phase, said the office in a news release Friday. A leaked U.S. chapter on intellectual…
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property rights showed the Obama administration was pushing stringent intellectual property language that promotes big business over consumer access to products and information, said WikiLeaks and other advocate groups that had criticized what they called the secretive nature of TPP talks. Meanwhile, a medicine intellectual property rights (IPR) policy change the USTR seeks (http://1.usa.gov/1k2YPXK) shows that office is amenable to negotiating data exclusivity time frames, said Sean Flynn, associate director of American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, in a blog post (http://infojustice.org/archives/31498). “This is consistent with reports of various groups talking to the White House and Members of Congress that they are being told that although the USTR has offered a 12 year data exclusivity provision in the TPP, it does not expect to get that provision in the final agreement.” Vice President Joe Biden started Sunday on a six-day tour of the Asia-Pacific region that includes a Tuesday summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, where the two leaders are expected to discuss TPP negotiations, said the White House. Biden is also scheduled to meet with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Friday. South Korea formally expressed Friday its intent to join TPP negotiations (CD Dec 2 p12).