Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Bust-up
Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Bust-up
by Rick Shera
There are so many leaks of "official" information these days It's hard to keep up, but I've just read what is apparently a paper submitted by New Zealand negotiators on the intellectual property aspects of the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement (PDF), negotiations for which kick off again today here in Auckland.
Wow!
Taking into account the rarefied and diplomatic language in which such papers are written, this is pretty explosive stuff.
The main takeouts suggest that the New Zealand negotiators:
As noted above, New Zealand
considers that TRIPS provides a valuable and appropriate
framework to achieve the horizontal outcomes, including the
development of a platform for a future region-wide FTA. Our
analysis also suggests that we should be cautious about
moving beyond TRIPS standards, given the differing levels of
economic development and the apparent lack of evidence of
whether stronger intellectual property protection has
increased innovation, particularly in developing
countries.
Rick Shera - New Zealand ICT, intellectual property & internet lawyer; start-up adviser; chair of NetSafe.org.nz and Hectorsworld.com (cybercitizenship NFPs); keen skier when has time - http://bit.ly/VCX3J
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