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Perspective

Dec. 7, 2013

Secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership talks head to Singapore

Here's what's wrong with some of the intellectual property provisions of this secretive trade agreement. By Sean Flynn and David S. Levine


By Sean Flynn and David S. Levine


The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) is en route to Singapore to finalize a new international agreement that has the potential to lock in our intellectual property laws to 95 pages of standards that have never been officially released to the public. Those standards are being included in an intellectual property chapter of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - a broad new international law governing trade and do...

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