The unfair rules of intellectual property rights section of the trans-pacific partnership agreement

The fairness of Intellectual Property Rights’ (IPR) provisions in the TransPacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) should be reconsidered. The primary objective of freetrade is to foster competition in the supply of goods/services. That objective is difficult to beachieved completely, because natural monopoly practices can be triggered through the IPR’sprovisions. The objective of this paper is to provide an analysis to the IPR’s section of theTPP to understand the future consequences of the rules for Indonesia. The methodologychosen is non-doctrinaire legal research methods. The result from this study shows that theTPP should be viewed as a multilateral free trade agreement that is fundamentally unfairfor Indonesia. This paper’s significance is an academic contribution that can be used by thegovernment of Indonesia in the decision-making activities related to the TPP.