Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a proposed plurilateral agreement to raise international standards for international intellectual property law enforcement. ACTA would establish a new international legal framework with its own governing body. After a series of leaks of text in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, the negotiating parties published the official version of the current draft on 20 April 2010. Since then, there have been no public on-the-record consultations on ACTA by the U.S. Two additional texts have leaked, showing major revisions of the agreement.
ACTA Negotiating Texts
- Final Text After Legal Verification, Released by Australia on December 3, 2010
- Official Negotiating Text Released by USTR on October 2, 2010
- Earlier Negotiating Texts (both leaked and officially released)
Sign-On Letters Circulated by PIJIP
- Submission by 30 Professors to USTR (Docket #ustr-2010-0014), February 15, 2011
- Academics' Letter to President Obama, October 28, 2010
- Urgent ACTA Communique drafted at Washington College of Law in June 2010
PIJIP Resources on ACTA
- Blog series inviting suggestions for amending ACTA
- Research Paper Series on ACTA
- Resource Database on the IP Enforcement Agenda
- IP Laws in ACTA Negotiating Countries


