Intellectual Property Committee (US private coalition)

The Intellectual Property Committee (IPC ) was a consortium of 13 U.S. companies during the Uruguay Round of the GATT contracting party ( 1986-1994). The IPC was involved (WTO ) massively resulting in the creation of the TRIPS from the final document of the Uruguay Round (15 April 1994) World Trade Organization.

Bristol -Myers, DuPont, General Electric, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Inc., Monsanto, Pfizer, Rockwell International and Time Warner: In particular, the groups were.

These companies had an interest that the World Trade Organization set internationally and monitor future not only the rules for international trade in goods (GATT ) and services ( GATS), but also for intellectual property should (TRIPS). Under intellectual property fall as music or movies, the Time-Warner wanted to protect against international black copies. Further, for example, Monsanto patents log on corn varieties that may be grown only under a license and a fee then, even if they are grown in the affected regions for centuries.

James Enyart (Monsanto ): " That which I have just reported, there has been nothing in the GATT history: The industry has been aware of a larger problem in international trade. She designed a solution, it was reduced to a concrete proposal and let this rubber-stamp of its own and many other governments. " ( " Pirates are Seizing the Genome "in: The Guardian, 28 October 1999 )

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