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The Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement: It's About the Big Picture

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 5 hours ago: Source: Huffington Post May 21st,2013 With the 48-hour news cycle we pick up an issue, spare no time … more →

Tags: Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, FTAs, IP Rights, NAFTA, european union, united states, free trade area, ttip, Genetically Modified Organism

TRIPping Up Least Developed Countries on Medicines, Green Tech, and Textbooks?

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 1 day ago: Source: Foreign Policy in Focus May 20,2013 As Brazilian Ambassador Roberto Azevedo won the race to … more →

Tags: EU-India FTA, FTAs, trips, LDCs, FDI, IP Rights, Access to medicines, WTO, european union

TRIPS Exemption Opposed By Obama Administration, Threatening Cost Spike For Drugs In Poorest Nations

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 1 day ago: Source: Huffington Post May20,2013 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is seeking to curb ef … more →

Tags: trips, LDCs, drug pricing, IP Rights, Access to medicines, WTO, HIV/AIDS, United Nations, Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Prop

Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations and the Controversial Issue of Pharmaceutical Test Data Protection

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 1 day ago: Source: Infojustice May 17,2013 Trade negotiators are meeting in Lima, Peru this week for the sevent … more →

Tags: Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, tppa, data exclusivity, trips, IP Rights, Access to medicines, WTO

India-EU FTA talks fail to bridge gaps; ministerial meet unlikely

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 1 day ago: Source: Zee News May 17,2013 New Delhi: In a set back to talks for the long-pending India-EU FTA, th … more →

Tags: EU-India FTA, generic drug, trips, FDI, IP Rights, WTO, India, european union, Foreign Direct Investment

A victory for global public health in the Indian, Ellen T Hoen

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 1 day ago: Source: Journal of Public Health Policy Abstract On 1 April of this year, the Indian Supreme Court u … more →

Tags: generic drug, Sec 3 (d), IP Rights, Novartis Case, Access to medicines, novartis, imatinib, Indian Patent office, Supreme Court of India

India: Patents and precedents

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 6 days ago: Source:Financial Times May 15,2013 Pharmaceutical companies fear that the battle raging in India ove … more →

Tags: generic drug, drug pricing, Sec 3 (d), IP Rights, Novartis Case, Access to medicines, Intellectual Property, united states, Pharmaceutical Industry

Countries must fix critical access to medicines flaws in Trans-Pacific Trade Pact

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 6 days ago: Source: MSF Access Campaign Lima/New York, May 14, 2013 – As negotiations for the Trans-Pacifi … more →

Tags: Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Sec 3 (d), patent evergreening, IP Rights, Novartis Case, Access to medicines, generic drug, Negotiation, pacificrim

Political opposition to EU-India FTA gathers momentum

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 6 days ago: Source: Bilaterals New Delhi, 13 May (Ranja Sengupta) — Leaders of the main opposition parties in In … more →

Tags: EU-India FTA, FDI, IP Rights, trips, WTO, FTA, Foreign Direct Investment, India-EU, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers

EU Trade Talks on ‘Last Lap’: India Commerce Minister

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 6 days ago: Source: CNBC 15th May,2013 The free trade talks between India and the European Union (EU), which sta … more →

Tags: EU-India FTA, trips, IP Rights, WTO, Anand Sharma, european union, free trade area, India

India-EU FTA talks stuck; insurance could be game spoiler

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 6 days ago: Source: Economic Times NEW DELHI: Talks between India-EU chief negotiators on FTA today got stuck wi … more →

Tags: EU-India FTA, FDI, IP Rights, trips, WTO, FTA, India, european union, Foreign Direct Investment

How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 6 days ago: Source: The Atlantic May 15,2013 The promise of delinking research and development from the actual m … more →

Tags: trips, drug pricing, IP Rights, Access to medicines, WTO, Medecins Sans Frontieres, World Health Organization, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, non-governmental organization

Lives versus Profits

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 1 week ago: Source: Project Syndicate May 6,2013 NEW YORK – The United States Supreme Court recently began delib … more →

Tags: trips, WTO, Intellectual Property, myriad-genetics, Gene patent, United States Supreme Court, BRCA1 gene

Angelina Jolie BRCA1 Mutation: Why Is the Breast Cancer Test At the Center Of a Supreme Court Battle?

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 1 week ago: Source: Policymic 15th May,2013 In a timely and important op-ed piece in the New York Times, Angelin … more →

Tags: IP Rights, Supreme Court, American Medical Association, myriad-genetics, Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer Action, DNA, BRCA-1 gene, Gene patent

'India, EU yet to reach consensus on vexed issues for FTA'

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 1 week ago:  Source: Economic Times May 8,2013 NEW DELHI: India and the EU, which are negotiating a free trade a … more →

Tags: EU-India FTA, trips, FDI, IP Rights, Access to medicines, WTO, India, european union, Foreign Direct Investment

India-EU FTA talks likely to hit roadblock

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 1 week ago: Source: The Hindu May 8,2013 As Centre fails to get through the legislation on hiking FDI in insuran … more →

Tags: EU-India FTA, trips, FDI, IP Rights, WTO, India, european union, Foreign Direct Investment, free trade area

Remedies for the Infringement of Standard Essential Patents Subject to a FRAND Commitment

Thomas F. Cotter wrote 1 week ago: [Note:  The following post can also be found on my new blog, "Comparative Patent Remedies", at compa … more →

Tags: Patent, INTERNATIONAL

Don't link compulsory licensing with price: Pharma companies

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 2 weeks ago: Source: The Economic Times May 8,2013 NEW DELHI: Indian drug makers have urged the government to ret … more →

Tags: generic drug, drug pricing, IP Rights, Access to medicines, India, Pharmaceutical Industry, Compulsory License, Indian patent act

Investors’ IP Rights Unbound: The Danger of Investment Clauses to Access to Medicines

donttradeourlivesaway wrote 2 weeks ago: Source: Infojustice April 24,2013 Although access to medicines activists have been wise to focus our … more →

Tags: Acta, generic drug, trips, Investment treaties, TRIPS Plus, Sec 3 (d), IP Rights, Novartis Case, Access to medicines


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