MED Release Table of Submissions on ACTA
(crossposted from CreativeFreedom.org.nz)
The MED have recently released a document 
summarising submissions received following their May-June 2009 submission round. Included are responses from British American Tobacco (NZ) Ltd, the NZ Institute of Patent Attorneys, the International Trademark Association, NZFA©T, RIANZ, InternetNZ, Google Australia, and the Creative Freedom Foundation. The submissions responded to MED’s Various Enforcement Proposal which may be considered during ongoing discussions around the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) . Minister of Commerce, Simon Power stated that the proposals specifically related to “border-protection measures, and civil and criminal enforcement provisions that are not currently part of our law.” ACTA participants met in Morocco in July 2009 for their fifth round of negotiations, and have announced their view to reach an agreement “as early as possible” in 2010. The next round of negotiations is due to take place in South Korea in November 2009.
Read the MED’s brief report on the Morocco meeting here.
Read the Press Statement about the meeting here.
