All of the copyright advisors to the admin on the TPP are from the industry. ALL of them.

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95. This is a very tendentious site...

... that expresses a lot of summary negative judgment without any explanation or analysis... and nothing about what the positive affects might be.

For instance, there is the provision listed that would require countries to provide patent protection for new surgical techniques, and to respect such patents issued in other countries. This is just stated as if it were a self evident truth that this would be bad and against the public interest. American physicians, however, already can patent their procedures under American law, so this is nothing new. Being able to extend that protection to other countries seems like a win for American doctors.

Being able to patent such procedures is in the public interest. If a physician does come up with an innovative procedure, and there is no patent protection, keeping it as a trade secrete is in her best interest. Patent protection, however, requires public disclosure - it becomes public knowledge. Its also possible for her to license use of the procedure, which then can become wide spread - something that doesn't happen with trade secretes. Then, when the patent expires, everyone already knows the procedure, and there are already experienced practitioners who have been making regular use of it.