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1 June 2014Patents

TPP: would transparency mean more delay?

Negotiated in secret, the proposed text is bad for access to knowledge, bad for access to medicine, and profoundly bad for innovation,” was the damning verdict of James Love. The director of non-governmental organisation Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), Love had read the 95 pages of IP provisions from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and he didn’t like what he saw.

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