Countries Offer ACTA Text To Replace Parts Of U.S. TPP IPR Proposal

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DALLAS - In an apparent effort to break the deadlock in negotiations for an intellectual property rights (IPR) chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), several countries are proposing that certain provisions in the U.S. proposal be replaced with language from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), informed sources said. According to these sources, other ACTA signatories involved in the TPP - New Zealand, Australia and Singapore - want to substitute language from the agreement's criminal offenses section with the proposed U.S. language on criminal enforcement, according to sources in Dallas. Negotiations on IPR here have largely centered on the enforcement section, where ACTA language would offer more flexible language compared to the U.S. IPR proposal.