{"id":15287,"date":"2015-06-09T10:27:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T15:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15287"},"modified":"2015-06-09T10:27:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T15:27:02","slug":"confidential-ustr-emails-show-close-industry-involvement-in-tpp-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15287","title":{"rendered":"Confidential USTR Emails Show Close Industry Involvement In TPP Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In another email in 2011, McCoy told GE lobbyists, \u201cIn case your CEO will be at the patent reform bill signing, I wanted to let you know that NZ Trade Minister Tim Groser is planning to attend. It would be a lovely opportunity for a CEO to turn to him and, for example, encourage NZ to support a strong IP chapter in the TPP\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At another point, Jim DeLisi of Fanwood Chemical said he had just seen the text on rules of origin, and remarked, \u201cSomeone owes USTR a royalty payment. These are our rules. \u2026 This is a very pleasant surprise.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ip-watch.org\/2015\/06\/05\/confidential-ustr-emails-show-close-industry-involvement-in-tpp-negotiations\/\">Confidential USTR Emails Show Close Industry Involvement In TPP Negotiations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another email in 2011, McCoy told GE lobbyists, \u201cIn case your CEO will be at the patent reform bill signing, I wanted to let you know that NZ Trade Minister Tim Groser is planning to attend. It would be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15287\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[439,47,34,1228],"class_list":["post-15287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-copyright","tag-monopolistic-practices","tag-patents","tag-tpp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15288,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions\/15288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}