Wednesday 19 June 2013
Mexico City.- Experts in intellectual property said that Mexico signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) because it was a sine-qua-non to join negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). “Of course yes”, replied plainly Jorge Amigo, who was IMPI’s CEO for almost 18 years, when asked directly if ACTA was signed so that Mexico may join TPP negotiations.
Javier Uhthoff, Specialist on Intellectual Property with Uhthoff Gomez Vega Consultants Firm, said that the haste to sign ACTA leads to assume it was so.
“As a matter of fact, it is hard to say if signing ACTA was a condition to have access to TPP negotiations, but I could say it was; the haste with which the Mexican Ambassador was ordered to sign ACTA, even if the Mexican Senate had given an opinion against entering the agreement, leads to assume that there was some kind of ‘suggestion’”, Uhthoff said in an interview.
“The implications of these actions, as is the case with ACTA, lay on the sovereign right each country has to set rules and regulations within its own legal framework and as per its own convenience”, Federico de la Garza, Director, Motion Picture Association, pointed-out.
Bernardo Herrerias from Barrera Siqueiros Torres Landa, a consultants firm on intellectual property, said that even if he is not certain that ACTA was used as bargaining chip, it would be beneficial if authorities recognized it, if it were so.
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