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Open access article:The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, 
Intellectual Property Protection and Access to Medicines​

Authors: Belinda Townsend, Deborah Gleeson, and Ruth Lopert.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2850294 
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Abstract

The inclusion of elevated standards of intellectual property protection 
in the recently negotiated Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement has 
raised serious public health concerns regarding access to medicines. A 
lesser-known trade agreement under negotiation in the Asia Pacific 
region is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Framed 
as an attempt to reassert ASEAN’s position in response to the United 
States-led TPP, RCEP includes key players China and India, as well as 
several low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Leaked drafts of 
intellectual property provisions proposed by Japan and South Korea raise 
similar concerns for access to medicines in the Asia-Pacific region. 
This paper identifies TRIPS-Plus provisions in leaked negotiating texts 
and examines their implications for those LMICs that are not also 
parties to the TPP: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, 
Thailand, China, and India.​

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