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India Considers a Compulsory Licenses for Nepal: Is there an Ulterior Motive?

Although ignored by most media outlets (but not IP Watch), the India Patent Controller is considering an application from Indian generic pharmaceutical company Natco to produce two drugs for export to Nepal under compulsory licence. If approved and implemented, this would be the second compulsory licence issued for export under

Obama's Economics Adviser on Obama on Trade

Here's how Austan Goolsbee, a University of Chicago economics professor who is Obama's leading economic adviser, describes Obama's views on trade: "I don't think he views himself as a protectionist," Goolsbee said. He said Obama favored expanding access to global

BYOM: Bring Your Own Meat

From Reuters: China expressed regret on Thursday at reports the U.S. Olympic team would bring its own meat for the Beijing Games over concerns of drugs tainted food, and said it could guarantee safe supplies. The New York Times has reported that the U.S. Olympic Committee has arranged

ZEROING POLL

This poll is highly unscientific, but nevertheless I'm curious to see what people think! I'm going to keep it at the top for a few days to give people a chance to vote. ADDED: I realize now that I should have made more clear that I

Investment Protection for Whom?

Aren't investment protection rules designed to protect investments by Western companies in developing countries? That may have been the original idea, but now the situation seems more complicated: With Indian firms investing aggressively in the US, India has put on fast track negotiations on signing an investment protection

ICJ Job

Amy Porges points me to this vacancy notice for a Senior Legal Officer/First Secretary of the Court at the International Court of Justice: http://www.asil.org/pdfs/vacancy.pdf

Update on the Seals Dispute

It has been a while since we talked about the Canada-EU seals dispute at the WTO (see here, here and here). It's not clear to me where this is all going, but here is the latest: The European Commission's ambassador to Canada says efforts are being

Can Unilateral Carbon Measures Be Consistent with WTO Rules?

My good friends over at the law firm Sidley Austin have done an analysis of whether certain cap-and-trade greenhouse gas legislation under consideration in the U.S. is consistent with WTO rules. They argue that unilateral legislation can be written in a way that complies with WTO rules, and that

Hillary Clinton's "Pro-America Trade Agenda"

Yesterday was Barack Obama day here on this blog. Today is Hillary Clinton day. In her recent Economic Blueprint for the 21st Century, Hillary Clinton sets out a "Pro-America Trade Agenda." (As an aside, do politicians in other countries use similar phrases? For example, do Koreans running for

Peter Gallagher on the New Agriculture Text

Peter Gallagher looks at the latest WTO agriculture text and finds that it comes up short in many ways. I enjoyed his closing part: The zombie vampire award in this catalog of half-way-measures goes to the “Commodities” section of the text. Here we find a proposal that the WTO’s