TPP and Beyond: North American Competitiveness and IP in the 21st Century

With the addition of Canada and Mexico to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement negotiations and the continuing need for a high-standard IP chapter in the TPP, the event underlined how critical it is for the United States, Canada, and Mexico to work together cooperatively – both at home and during negotiations on the TPP – on protecting and enforcing IP rights.

Tags: Canada, Dan Duncan, David Torstensson, innovation, Jay Taylor, John Veroneau, Mexico, patent utility, Pharmaceuticals, TPP

U.S. Business Organizations Issue Joint Statement Expressing Deep Concern with New Zealand’s Announcement that it will Proceed with Plain Packaging Legislation

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Emergency Committee for American Trade, the United States Council for International Business, the National Foreign Trade Council, the Transatlantic Business Council and the U.S-ASEAN Business Council issued the following statement concerning the announcement that New Zealand will introduce legislation that mandates the plain packaging [...]

Tags: New Zealand, plain packaging

ICYMI: Honoring our Founders, Remembering our Principles

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As former California Rep. Mary Bono Mack reminded us yesterday, perhaps the greatest service we can do in honoring our presidents and founding fathers is to remember the principles that have brought us from where we were to where we are today…

Tags: Constitution, President, TPP, Trade

The Real Contagion? Fake Drugs Pose Real Health Threat

It’s like a scene from a Hollywood movie. A disease that most Americans think of as something exclusive to the third world comes to the U.S. The drugs that have long been used to treat the disease are resistant. The epidemic begins.

It’s not as far-fetched as it should be.

Tags: Counterfeiting, Dangerous Fakes, health and safety, safety, Tuberculosis

U.S. Chamber’s Global Intellectual Property Center Comments on Counterfeit Toy Indictments

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) Executive Vice President Mark Elliot issued the following statement regarding the indictment of five individuals and corporations for trafficking counterfeit toys from China.  

Tags: China, Dangerous Fakes, Enforcement, ICE, toys

Monthly Archives: February 2013

TPP and Beyond: North American Competitiveness and IP in the 21st Century