How The Released TPP Agreement Will Affect You

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As the details in the TPP agreement become known, the worries mount. The BATR RealPolitik Newsletter October 8, 2015 edition, TPP Deceitful Deal is Done,
has a number of significant articles on the TPP agreement and links to
the recently released sections of the document. ~ James Hall

Finally, the opportunity
to examine the particulars allows for citing specifics. What are you
supposed to believe, your own evaluation of the terms or the Summary of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement provided by the government?

Two sections prove enlightening. Start out with the TPP Intellectual Property Chapter is “A Disaster for Global Health” and read the Expert Analysis: “Pharmaceutical Provisions in the TPP” (PDF, HTML).

  • Patents for new uses and new methods of using existing products (Article QQ.E.1.2, p. 17);

  • A low inventiveness threshold – potentially preventing countries
    from tightening the criteria for granting patents (Footnote 33, p. 17);

  • Patent term extensions to compensate for delays in granting patents
    (Article QQ.E.12, p. 20) and delays in marketing approval (Article
    QQ.E.14, p. 22);

  • Data protection for small molecule drugs – at least 5 years for new
    pharmaceutical products plus 3 years for new indications, formulations
    or methods of administration (Article QQ.E.16, p. 23-24);

  • Patent linkage provisions likely to result in delays in marketing approval for generic drugs (Article QQ.E.17); and

  • Market exclusivity for biologics, provided through one of two
    options: at least 8 years of data protection, or at least 5 years of
    data protection and other measures to “deliver a comparable outcome in
    the market” (Article QQ.E.20, p. 25-26).

Oh, woe, is me. It sounds like Big
Pharma has just spliced together some cartel genes that will extend
their longevity as profit centers for the management of diseases that
never attempt to find actual cures.

The Washington Examiner reports in Why everybody hates the drug deal in the trade pact.

“The White House’s last-minute
compromise on drug copyright protections in a huge trade agreement
appears to have pleased nobody, with liberals, conservatives, patient
groups and the industry all criticizing the deal.”

“It is a giveaway to Big Pharma, which
wants to lock cheaper generics out of the market for eight years,” said
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., a leading trade skeptic. “This will result
in more expensive medicines, as well as slower progress toward medical
breakthroughs.”

What is found in the TPP talks is a
precipitous pattern of corporatist protectionism over the beneficial
interests of the consumer. So much for the lofty medicine, prescribed as
“Free Trade”, as a cure for a healthier future.

In actuality Trans-Pacific Partnership could pose risk to public healthcare, leaked draft shows that most of Asian countries are being pushed into accepting the U.S. medical pharmacological model.

“The US was initially seeking 12 years
of data exclusivity on biologics, and they have now backed down to eight
years in this draft, which they’re selling as a big concession and as a
new flexibility,” said Gleeson, who is also a spokeswoman for the
Public Health Association of Australia.

“But eight years is much longer than the current protection period in all TPP countries except for Japan, Canada and the US.”

The next section has received far more
attention. What will the internet look like if all the provisions are
implemented to penalize and even criminalize fair use news reporting?

The International Business Times points out the legal jeopardy and
censorship implications encoded in the language of the agreement.

Cited
in the account, TPP Pits Big Tech Against Internet Freedom Groups As Wikileaks Reveals Strict IP, Copyright Protections, has Maira Sutton, a global policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation making a grim warning:

“Protecting trade secrets is a major
theme throughout the highly technical TPP agreement, with language that
seems to “make it a crime for whistleblowers and journalists to disclose
trade secrets,” Sutton said.

“If a journalist reports on the Snowden
documents, which reveal how tech companies deal with the National
Security Agency, they could be penalized. The language is that vague.”

Obviously, you know that Free Speech is
on life support. If the drug cabal seeks guarantee returns in the TPP
arrangements, compare the effective results to be similar to that
miracle of modern medicine, Part D addition in Medicare.

Who pays for
the privilege of access to the aesculapian concoctions that claim the
healing art is a practice that only the doctor profession is fit to
dispense?

The bottom line that is missed by the
medicated society is that big business operates under a much different
set of rules from the real economy that provides the basic needs of the
consumer.

So when the Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership Document Raises
New Concerns For Progressives, it should also be a concern for every end
user.

“If you dig deeper, you’ll notice that
all of the provisions that recognize the rights of the public are
non-binding, whereas almost everything that benefits rightsholders is
binding,” the group writes, citing access to material in the public
domain as one area that has been weakened.

“All of that has now been
lost in favor of a feeble, feel-good platitude that imposes no concrete
obligations on the TPP parties whatsoever.”

There lies the rub. Transnational’s do
not see the buyers of their products as essential partners in the chain
of mutual rewarding business transaction. There is not even a veiled
appearance of a level playing field.

The TPP agreement has the objective
of consolidating corporatist enforcement over a global population that
has effectively been marginalized, from the political process that is
steamrolling approval.

The death of discourse and the
incarceration of internet intellectual insights is a guaranteed
byproduct from the global destruction of independent national economies.

Corporate cultures see their customers as money center migrants, who
can be evicted from the consumer promised land, if these international
trade treaties are not implemented.

The impact of allowing the adoption of
such a trading system is the demise of individual autonomy, replaced
with rationed dependency for personal survival.

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October 18, 2015 – KnowTheLies

 

 

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