Washington, April 30 (EFE) .- The US government now included Ecuador in the “black list” of violation of intellectual property rights published annually and kept in that category a year to Argentina, Chile and Venezuela.
Ecuador, which took several years in a category of special observation in the report prepared annually by the Office of Trade Representative ( USTR, in English) US, Michael Froman, was elevated to the “black list” in this issue of the document, relative to 2014.
Several countries of the continent are in the second category of observation concerns intellectual property in this year’s report, including Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru and Canada.
The reason given by the USTR to raise Ecuador that second category to the “black list” is “the repeal in 2014 of the criminal provisions relating to intellectual property rights” in the country.
“The United States urges Ecuador to complete their work to invalidate the repeal, or to achieve that effect through other means, “the report said.
” The current lack of procedures and criminal penalties invites transnational organized groups engaged in piracy rights copyright and counterfeiting registered to see Ecuador as a refuge brands, “he says.
If Ecuador” restore the repealed provisions or adopt new acceptable “by the end of this year, USTR review “fast” your information “to determine whether repositioned to Ecuador” in the second category of information, the report said.
In addition, the USTR believes the bill on economic innovation that Ecuador debate “could threaten foreign investment” and that the country “does not adequately protect” intellectual property in the pharmaceutical, chemical and agricultural industries.
Argentina repeated in the “black list”, formally known as “priority watch list”, because it “still has a number of shortcomings of very long standing and well known” in the “protection and enforcement” of copyright.
The Argentine has been become “an extremely difficult market” for industries where intellectual property is important, in part because of the “lack of effective implementation” of measures against piracy by the government and the “growing concern” about the activity on the Internet.
On Chile, the US has “serious concerns” over property disputes that have arisen within the bilateral free trade and urges the country to implement “an effective system to deal with patent issues “in connection with applications to market pharmaceutical products.
As for Venezuela, the United States indicates that government measures are” insufficient “to tackle a” widespread piracy and counterfeiting “in the country, and neither is there a “effective system” to protect against unfair trade practices in the pharmaceutical industry.
Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela share site in the “black list” with China, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Algeria , Kuwait, Russia and Ukraine
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