Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement

U.S. Negotiating Team

• Barbara Weisel, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Southeast Asia and the Pacific
• Stan McCoy, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property
• Complete List of Negotiators on USTR Team

Positions on Intellecutal Property Chapter in the TPP

• Leaked Position Paper from the US Business Coalition for TPP
• Leaked Position Paper from the New Zealand Government
• Comments submitted to USTR in response to its October 20, 2010 request

Advocacy Around the Possible Inclusion of a Pharmaceuticals Chapter Modeled on the Korea FTA

• Against a Pharmaceuticals Chapter:
  
  • January 21, 2011. National Legislative Association for Prescription Drug Prices Resolution Opposing the Inclusion of a Pharmaceuticals Chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
  • September 26, 2010. State Representatives Treat (ME), Lyons (VT), Keenan (VT), Weed (NH), and State Senator Rotundo (ME). Letter to USTR.
  • August, 2010. Forum on Democracy and Trade. "Trans-Pacific Partnership & U.S. State Efforts to Control Drug Prices."
    
  • April 2010. Forum on Democracy and Trade Handout on the TPP.
• For a Pharmaceuticals Chapter
  • January 25, 2010. PhRMA Comments to USTR on the TPP.
  • December 2010. IP Task Force of the U.S. Business Coalition for TPP. Leaked memo to negotiators. "TPP Intellectual Property Negotiations." 

Further Information Sources for TPP

• USTR Page on TPP
• Forum on Democracy and Trade Page on TPP
• University of Auckland Professor Jane Kelsey's Website on TPP
• Trans Pacific Partnership Digest (University of Auckland)
• Public Citizen Page on TPP
• Wikipedia

• Susy Frankel. "Intellectual Property in New Zealand and the TPPA."  Chapter from No Ordinary Deal - Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement. Jane Kelsey, ed., Bridget Williams Books, 2010. 
• Publisher's Synopsis of No Ordinary Deal - Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement. Jane Kelsey, ed., Bridget Williams Books, 2010.

IP Provsions in Existing Trade Agreements Among Negotiating Parties

• U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement (Chapter 16)
• U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement (Chapter 17)
• U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement  (Chapter 16)
• U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement  (Chapter 17)
  • See also Annex 2(c) on Pharmaceutical Pricing - scroll to page 12
• Trans Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership - ("P4 Agreement") (Chapter 10 - scroll to page 71)
• Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement  (Chapter 13)
• Australia and New Zealand Closer Economic Relations  (IP not included)
• Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement  (Chapter 17)
• ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA  (Chapter 13)
• Agreement between New Zealand and Singapore on a Closer Economic Partnership (Art. 57)
• Peru-Singapore Free Trade Agreement  (IP not included)
• Peru-Chile Free Trade Agreemen  (IP not included)

Domestic Laws in Negotiating Countries

• Australia - IP Australia
  • Copyright Act 1968
  • Patents Act 1990
  • Patents Regulations 1991
  • Trade Marks Act 1995 except Part 13 which the Australian Customs Service administers
  • Trade Marks Regulations 1995 
  • Designs Act 2003 
  • Designs Regulations 2004
    
  • The Australian Customs Service (ACS) administers Division 7 of Part V of the Copyright Act 1968 and Part 13 of the Trade Marks Act 1995, which deal with the importation of goods subject to Notices of Objections by IP rights holders. 
  • Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 
  • Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 
• New Zealand - (Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand)
  • Patents Act 1953
  • Patents Regulations 1954
  • Trade Marks Act 2002
  • Trade Marks Regulations 2003
  • Designs Act 1953
  • Designs Regulations 1954
  • Copyright Act 1994
  • Copyright Regulations 1995
  • Medicines Amendment Act Commencement Order 1994
• Singapore
  
  • Patents Act (as of Dec. 1, 2008)
  • Patent Regulations (Composition of Offenses)
  • Patent Rules 2001 (Patent Agents)
  • Patent Rules
  • Trade Marks Act Trade Marks Border Enforcement Measures Rules
  • Trade Marks Composition of Offenses Regulations
  • Trade Marks Rules
  • Trade Marks International Registration Rules
  • Registered Designs Act
  • Registered Designs Composition of Offenses Regulations
  • Registered Designs Rules
  • Registered Designs International Registration Rules 2005
  • Copyright Act
  • Copyright (International Organizations) Regulations
  • Copyright (International Protection) Regulations
  • Copyright Regulations
  • Copyright Border Enforcement Measures Regulations
  • Copyright Tribunals (Procedure) Regulations
  • Copyright Regulations (Network Service Provider)
  • Copyright (Excluded Works) Order 2008
  • Health Products Act 2007
  • Intellectual Property Office of Singapore
• Brunei
  • Inventions Act
  • Merchandise Marks Act
  • Trade Mark Rules
  • Trade Mark Act
  • Trademarks (Importation of Infringing Goods) Regulations
• Chile
  • Intellectual Property (Civil) Code (Articles 1008, 1311, 1313, 1316, and 2225)
  • Intellectual Propert (Civil) Code (Article 584)
  • Law No. 19.039 on Industrial Property (Amended and Consolidated as of 2006)
  • Regulations to Law No. 19.039 on Industrial Property
  • Law No. 19.914 on Copyright (bringing legislation into conformity with US FTA)
  • Copyright (Enforcement of IP Rights), Law (Amendment) No. 19.912
• Peru
  • Decision 351 Common Regime on Copyright and Related Rights
  • Legislative Decree 822 Law on Copyright
  • Legislative Decree 823 Industrial Property Law
  • Legislative Decree 1072 Test Data Protection and Other Undisclosed Pharmaceutical Products
  • Supreme Decree 002-2009-SA, Regulation of Legislative Decree 1072, Protection of Undisclosed Test Data or Other Data of Pharmaceutical Products
  • Regulation of the National Registry of Copyright and Related Rights
  • Legislative Decree 1076 (Modification of Legislative Decree 822)
  • Law No. 28 571 (Amending Articles 188 and 189 of Legislative Decree 822)
  • Legislative Decree 1092 (Approving Border Measures for the Protection of Copyright and Related Rights)
  • Supreme Decree 003-2009-EF (Regulation of Legislative Decree 1092)
  • National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights (INDECOPI)
• Vietnam
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Intellectual Property (Civil Code), Law, 2005
  • Intellectual Property (Customs Control & Procedures), Law (Amendment), 2005
  • Intellectual Property (Customs Control & Procedures), Law, 2001
  • Enforcement (No. 24/2004/QH11, Civil Procedures Code), Law, 2004
  • Enforcement (No. 19/2003/QH10, Criminal Procedures Code), Law, 2003
  • Decree No. 01/2007/TT-BKHCN) Implementation of the Law on Intellectual Property Regarding Industrial Property
  • Decree No. 106/2006/ND-CP Administrative Sanctions for Violations in the Domain of Industrial Property (Sept. 22, 2006)
  • Decree No. 105/2006/ND-CP Protection of Intellectual Property Rights and State Management of Intellectual Property
  • Decree No. 100/2006/ND-CP on Copyrights
  • Border Measures Decree No. 154/2005/ND-CP, Imports Exports Procedures