Development-Based Transition Mechanism For IP Rules Seen As Losing Ground

TAMUNING, Guam -- As talks on intellectual property (IP) protections for drugs in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) prepare to get underway here, sources on all sides of the debate say that U.S. and Mexican proposals for a development-based transition mechanism have ceded ground to the idea of using a fixed timeline. There appear to be at least two factors behind this dynamic. One is that TPP countries generally are coming to see it as more practical for the trade deal...