News & Chronology
2005-04-18 FFII: European Commission takes aim at third countries regarding "IPR"
2004-07-19 Australian Diplmat criticises patent clauses in AU-US "Free Trade Agreement as trade barriers
2004-04-30 ICRT Letter based on TRIPs lie
2003-12-00 Financial times article Prof. Bhagwati strongly critizised the misuse of the WTO framework by the IPP Lobby: "IPP is not a 'trade' issue; and the WTO ought to be aboutlowering trade barriers and tackling market access problems that will often go beyond border measures to 'internal' regulations: a thorny issue. TRIPs is by contrast only about royalty collection. It was put into the WTO by considerable lobbying pressure in the United States in particular, so as to make the use of trade sanctions against user countries who used knowledge without paying royalty. It turned the WTO therefore into a royalty-collection agency!"
19xx-xx-xx EU vs Canada WTO litigation case: Canada used to allow pharmaceutics manufacturers to prepare start of sales before expiry of the patent, so that sales could be launched the day after expiry of the patent. EU argued before WTO panel that Canada's practise was contrary to !TRIPs, pushed for narrow interpretation of exemption clauses, and won.
Corrigenda
hidden trade barrier against other nations
-> in der deutschen Fachsprache spricht man von "-nicht-tarifären Handelshemmnissen", denke das ist ein Anglizismus, klingt professioneller als "hidden"
