Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Stiglitz on the TPP

Joe Stiglitz thinks the TPP will have the following results:

- weaken the 2001 Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health
- mandate extensions of patents terms
- mandate lower standards for granting patents on medicines
- mandate granting patents on surgical procedures,
- mandate monopolies of 12 years on test data for biologic drugs
- narrow the grounds for granting compulsory license on patents,
- increase damages for infringements of patents and copyrights,
- reduce space for exceptions as regards limits on injunctions, and
- narrow copyright exceptions
- requiring life+ 70 years of copyright protection,
- mandate excessive enforcement measures for digital information, and
- otherwise restrict access to knowledge.

Why won't Obama listen?

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