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<strong>PRIVATE</strong> <strong>PATENTS</strong> <strong>AND</strong> <strong>PUBLIC</strong> <strong>HEALTH</strong><br />
edocs/mdocs/scp/en/scp_22/<br />
scp_22_5.pdf<br />
149 Taken from the WIPO webcast,<br />
available here: http://www.wipo.int/<br />
meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_<br />
id=35591. The US intervention was on<br />
Wednesday, 29 July 2015 (during the<br />
afternoon session beginning at<br />
around 17:35).<br />
150 This is particularly high priority for<br />
the EC: European Commission,<br />
“Protection of Intellectual Property<br />
in Free Trade Agreements,” Brussels,<br />
October 2012, http://trade.ec.europa.<br />
eu/doclib/docs/2012/november/<br />
tradoc_150081.pdf<br />
151 CAFTA originally included Costa<br />
Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,<br />
Honduras and Nicaragua, but the<br />
Dominican Republic agreed in March<br />
2004 to sign on to CAFTA as well.<br />
Office of the United States Trade<br />
Representative, “CAFTA-DR<br />
(Dominican Republic-Central<br />
America FTA),” https://ustr.gov/<br />
trade-agreements/free-tradeagreements/cafta-dr-dominicanrepublic-central-america-fta<br />
152 For example, NAFTA (US, Canada,<br />
Mexico), as well as several bilateral<br />
investment agreements with the US.<br />
153 The Southern African Customs Union<br />
(SACU) includes Botswana, Lesotho,<br />
Namibia, South Africa and<br />
Swaziland. For more information,<br />
see: http://www.sacu.int/<br />
154 Consolidated Text of the TPP<br />
Intellectual Property Rights Chapter,<br />
5 October 2015, https://wikileaks.org/<br />
tpp-ip3/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter/<br />
WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter-051015.<br />
pdf ; New Zealand Official<br />
Publication 5 November 2015,<br />
available online here: http://www.<br />
mfat.govt.nz/Treaties-and-<br />
International-Law/01-Treaties-for-<br />
which-NZ-is-Depositary/0-Trans-<br />
Pacific-Partnership-Text.php<br />
155 “How the US trade deal undermined<br />
Australia’s PBS,” The Conversation, 23<br />
October 2014, http://theconversation.<br />
com/how-the-us-trade-dealundermined-australias-pbs-32573<br />
156 Consolidated Text of the TPP<br />
Intellectual Property Rights Chapter,<br />
5 October 2015, available online here:<br />
https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/<br />
WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter/<br />
WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter-051015.<br />
pdf<br />
157 Amy Kapczynski, “The Trans-Pacific<br />
Partnership – Is it Bad for Your<br />
Health?,” The New England Journal of<br />
Medicine 373, No.3: pgs. 201-203, 16<br />
July 2015, http://www.nejm.org/doi/<br />
pdf/10.1056/NEJMp1506158<br />
158 Joseph E. Stiglitz, “Don’t Trade Away<br />
Our Health,” The New York Times, 30<br />
January 2015, http://www.nytimes.<br />
com/2015/01/31/opinion/dont-tradeaway-our-health.html?_r=2<br />
159 Adam Behsudi and Brett Norman,<br />
“Big Pharma seeks special trade deal:<br />
Critics insist secret negotiations are<br />
the wrong way to set drug policies,”<br />
Politico, 6 June 2015, http://www.<br />
politico.com/story/2015/06/bigpharma-trade-deal-118664.html<br />
160 Knowledge Ecology International,<br />
“Compulsory licenses and the 3-step<br />
test,” KEI TPP Briefing note 2015:1, 14<br />
May 2015, http://keionline.org/sites/<br />
default/files/TPP-BriefingNote-2015-<br />
1-CLv3-step-test.pdf<br />
161 UNITAID, The Trans-Pacific Partnership<br />
Agreement Implications for Access to<br />
Medicines and Public Health, Geneva,<br />
Switzerland: WHO, March 2014,<br />
http://www.unitaid.eu/en/rssunitaid/1339-the-trans-pacificpartnership-agreement-implicationsfor-access-to-medicines-and-publichealth<br />
162 UNITAID, The Trans-Pacific Partnership<br />
165
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