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Viewing cable 06SANTIAGO1761, CHILE UNABLE TO EXPLAIN IPR REGIME TO USTR

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06SANTIAGO1761 2006-08-17 20:36 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Santiago
VZCZCXYZ0002
PP RUEHWEB

DE RUEHSG #1761/01 2292036
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 172036Z AUG 06
FM AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9814
INFO RUEHBO/AMEMBASSY BOGOTA PRIORITY 1516
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA PRIORITY 3247
RUEHBU/AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES PRIORITY 3147
RUEHCV/AMEMBASSY CARACAS PRIORITY 1041
RUEHLP/AMEMBASSY LA PAZ AUG 4721
RUEHPE/AMEMBASSY LIMA PRIORITY 4647
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHDC PRIORITY
UNCLAS SANTIAGO 001761 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KIPR ECON ETRD PREL CI
SUBJECT: CHILE UNABLE TO EXPLAIN IPR REGIME TO USTR 
 
REF: A. SANTIAGO 1562 
 
     B. SANTIAGO 1230 
     C. SANTIAGO 380 
 
1. (SBU) Summary.  Assistant USTR Eissenstat visited Santiago 
August 10-11 as part of Chile's Out of Cycle Review under the 
Special 301 Process.  Eissenstat met with a panel from the 
Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs and patent office. 
The GOC was unable to explain how its system provides IPR 
protection for proprietary data and patents.  It was adamant 
it had made the legal and bureaucratic changes to comply with 
the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement.  The GOC is worried IPR 
enforcement will be costly and ultimately restrict consumer 
access.  USTR will continue OCR-related talks with the GOC 
over the coming months but left Santiago more concerned about 
Chile's IPR protection than before it arrived.  End Summary. 
 
2. (SBU) Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Everett 
Eissenstat headed a delegation of USTR and Food and Drug 
Administration officials to Santiago August 10-11 as part of 
Chile's Out of Cycle Review (OCR) under the Special 301 
Process.  Chile is currently on the Watch List.  The main 
goals of Eissenstat's visit were to understand how and if, 
two and a half years into the U.S.-Chile FTA, the GOC 
provides data and patent protection for pharmaceuticals. 
 
3. (SBU) GOC officials were defensive in the talks and 
clearly concerned about the outcome of the OCR.  The GOC was 
eager for acknowledgement from Eissenstat that it has made 
progress in establishing an effective IPR regime.  The GOC 
maintained a hard line that it was complying with the FTA, 
while privately admitting there had been blatant patent 
violations in recent years.  The GOC maintained there would 
at least be fewer violations in the future but was unable to 
explain how it would accomplish even this. 
 
Data Protection 
--------------- 
 
4. (SBU) The GOC held out Decree 153, published in December 
2005, as a major step forward in providing data protection 
for innovative pharmaceuticals.  It appears Decree 153 does 
offer some basic data protection and at least two innovative 
drugs have been granted data protection in the last six 
months under its provisions.  The decree does require that 
the Instituto de Salud Publica (the ISP is the rough 
equivalent of the FDA) not disclose protected data and not 
rely on it for the approval of generics.  That being said, 
there are many technical barriers, which are not allowed 
under the FTA, to receiving data protection. 
 
No Linkage Exists 
----------------- 
 
5. (SBU) Despite the FTA's language requiring both parties to 
deny approval to pharmaceuticals that infringe on existing 
patents, the GOC has not created any clear system to 
accomplish this.  There is a fundamental disconnect inside 
the GOC between the approval actions of health officials at 
the ISP and the Patent Office (Industrial Property Office). 
At times with Eissenstat, the GOC played semantics by 
insisting the ISP grants only sanitary approval and thus does 
not grant the marketing approval listed in the FTA.  When 
pressed to delineate the marketing approval process and how 
sanitary approval fits into the mix, GOC officials were 
outright unable to do so.  The final GOC response was that 
the court system provided the linkage demanded by the FTA. 
Seeking redress for patent violations through Chile's courts 
is time consuming, usually fruitless and completely pointless 
if the copy has already hit the market. 
 
Conclusion 
---------- 
 
6. (SBU) The GOC's inability to explain its system only 
elevated USTR's concern.  While Chile may have made an effort 
to provide some IPR protection, it is simply hard to tell at 
this point what (if anything) it has created.  The current 
level of IPR protection for pharmaceuticals in Chile is 
muddled at best and at worst simply an effort to keep the 
U.S. at bay.  Data protection is dictated by technical 
barriers and is far from automatic.  Patents are not 
protected by the GOC and if there are violations, the courts 
provide the only potential recourse.  Essentially, the GOC 
has taken its own responsibility to protect data and patents 
as stipulated by the FTA and placed that burden on individual 
companies.  USTR will continue an OCR-related dialogue with 
the GOC over the coming months but this visit raised more 
questions than it answered.  At this point, a USG 
inter-agency decision based on the OCR is expected to be made 
in October. 
 
Comment 
------- 
 
7. (SBU) It is President Bachelet herself who likely will 
have to decide if Chile is going to comply with its FTA 
obligations.  The GOC has been resisting enforcing IPR, 
because it is worried about the costs to its national health 
care system (Plan Auge) and to the average consumer.  The GOC 
has reportedly commissioned a study, due for completion in 
October, of the financial impact of fully respecting IPR.  It 
is hard to predict what conclusions that study will draw. 
However, it seems clear that should estimates come in on the 
high side, the GOC will likely continue to try to create the 
illusion of IPR protection while doing little to fulfill its 
FTA promises. 
KELLY