Continuing the series of analysis of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations, Glyn Moody writes that « what is shocking is that an OHIM [Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market] representative, along with the most senior EU negotiator for intellectual monopolies, should be offering detailed advice to US companies on how to subvert the TAFTA/TTIP negotiations by trying to keep the dissenting views of Members of the European Parliament and EU civic groups out of the debate. »
« At the very least, the European Commission should set up a formal inquiry into what happened at this meeting, to make sure such blatant favoritism is avoided in future. If it doesn’t, we’ll know definitively that not only is it happy to see corporates on both sides of the Atlantic given preferential treatment during TAFTA/TTIP, but that it really doesn’t care who knows. Meanwhile, those who took to the streets of Europe to fight off ACTA last year may want to start getting their boots ready. »
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131219/05544825628/actas-back-european-commission-reveals-plans-to-put-corporate-christmas-list-ip-demands-into-taftattip.shtml