BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250818T215209EDT-7652upcAbL@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250819T015209Z DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Intellectual Property and Policy welcomes Dr Mat thew Rimmer (Australian National University College of Law) for the first of its CIPP Speaker’s Series 2014-2015 Abstract The Trans-Pacific Partne rship (TPP) is a highly secretive and expansive free trade agreement being negotiated between the US and eleven Pacific Rim countries\, including Au stralia and Canada. This presentation provides a critical evaluation of k ey chapters of the TPP - including the intellectual property chapter\; the investment chapter\; the environment chapter\, and the climate change tex t. A draft of the intellectual property chapter of the TPP was leaked by WikiLeaks in November 2013. Julian Assange warned: ‘If instituted\, the TP P’s IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression\, a s well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If yo u read\, write\, publish\, think\, listen\, dance\, sing or invent\; if yo u farm or consume food\; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill\, the T PP has you in its crosshairs.’ The draft chapter promoted stronger\, long er copyright protection – with a Mickey Mouse copyright term extension\; t ough obligations on digital locks and technological protection measures\; and harsh civil and criminal penalties for enforcement. The draft chapter has significant obligations for patent law and data protection for biologi cs. There is also an expansive approach taken to the protection of well-k nown trademarks\, and a push for criminal penalties and procedures for dis closure of trade secrets. There has been much controversy over the inclus ion of an Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism in the TPP. I n Australia\, there has been much controversy over Philip Morris challengi ng Australia’s plain packaging of tobacco products under an investment agr eement with Hong Kong. Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has put forward a bill i n the Australian Senate to ban the inclusion of investor-state dispute set tlement clauses in trade agreements. In Canada\, there has been an uproar over the action taken by Eli Lilly against Canada under an ISDS clause in NAFTA over drug patents. Likewise\, the action by Lone Pine against Canada under an ISDS clause in NAFTA over Quebec’s fracking moratorium has recei ved international attention. The US Trade Representative maintained that the US has pushed for 'a robust\, fully enforceable environment chapter in the TPP'\, and Andrew Robb\, the Australian Trade and Investment Minister \, has vowed that the TPP will contain safeguards for the protection of th e environment. But on 15 January 2014\, WikiLeaks released the draft Envir onment Chapter of the TPP — along with a report by the Chairs of the Envir onmental Working Group. The agreement appears an exercise in greenwashing. Julian Assange\, WikiLeaks' publisher\, said the leak showed 'The fabled TPP environmental chapter turns out to be a toothless public relations exe rcise with no enforcement mechanism.' Far from being an ambitious 21st cen tury agreement\, the TPP provides little in the way of environmental prote ction of land\, water\, air\, or the climate. Biography Dr Matthew Rimme r is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He is an associate prof essor at the ANU College of Law\, and an associate director of the Austral ian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA). He holds a BA (Hons) and a University Medal in literature\, and a LLB (Hons) from the A ustralian National University. He is a member of the ANU Climate Change In stitute. He is the author of Digital Copyright and the Consumer Revolutio n: Hands off my iPod\, Intellectual Property and Biotechnology: Biological Inventions\, and Intellectual Property and Climate Change: Inventing Clea n Technologies. He is an editor of Patent Law and Biological Inventions\, Incentives for Global Public Health: Patent Law and Access to Essential M edicines\, and Intellectual Property and Emerging Technologies: The New Bi ology. Rimmer has published widely on copyright law and information techn ology\, patent law and biotechnology\, access to medicines\, clean technol ogies\, and traditional knowledge. His work is archived at SSRN Abstracts and Bepress Selected Works. DTSTART:20140912T170000Z DTEND:20140912T183000Z LOCATION:NCDH 202\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36 44 rue Peel SUMMARY:The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Intellectual Property\, Investor-Sta te Dispute Settlement\, and the Environment URL:/law/channels/event/trans-pacific-partnership-inte llectual-property-investor-state-dispute-settlement-and END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR