Australian producers will still be able to use terms like prosecco, kransky and parmesan – but there’s a catch.
- Honorary Associate Professor; economics of patents, geographical indications and other "IP"; trade treaties, Australian National University
The European Union wants to reserve specific food names for its own producers. Australia argues these are generic names and we should keep them.
The EU is asking Australia to extend drug company monopolies. This could mean Australians wait longer for access to cheaper, generic medicines.
Negotiators from 11 countries have been racing to resurrect the near-dead Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit this weekend.
Efforts by pharmaceutical companies to extend their patents cost taxpayers millions of dollars each year. In some cases they also mean people are subjected to unnecessary clinical trials. Big pharma makes…
Ten years on from the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement, Australia is entering another round of negotiations towards the new and controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership. In this Free Trade Scorecard series…
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