{"id":15497,"date":"2015-08-11T13:25:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T18:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15497"},"modified":"2015-08-11T13:26:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T18:26:46","slug":"how-the-battle-over-biologics-helped-stall-the-trans-pacific-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15497","title":{"rendered":"How the battle over biologics helped stall the Trans Pacific Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Section 25a of Australia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comlaw.gov.au\/Details\/C2015C00086\">Therapeutic Goods Act<\/a> provides for five years of data exclusivity for all medicines. It makes no distinction between biologics and other drugs. Data exclusivity provides an absolute monopoly that, unlike a patent, can\u2019t be revoked or challenged in court.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful biopharmaceutical industry lobby in the United States has been seeking <a href=\"http:\/\/phrma.org\/note-media-elected-officials-support-12-years-data-protection-tpp\">12 years of market exclusivity for biologics<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-the-battle-over-biologics-helped-stall-the-trans-pacific-partnership-45648\">How the battle over biologics helped stall the Trans Pacific Partnership<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems clear to everyone except US negotiators \u2013 and biopharmaceutical industry lobbyists \u2013 that the demand for extending data exclusivity for biologics needs to be dropped if the TPP is to be finalised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section 25a of Australia\u2019s Therapeutic Goods Act provides for five years of data exclusivity for all medicines. It makes no distinction between biologics and other drugs. Data exclusivity provides an absolute monopoly that, unlike a patent, can\u2019t be revoked or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15497\">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":[34,1228],"class_list":["post-15497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-patents","tag-tpp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497","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=15497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15499,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15497\/revisions\/15499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}