Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction In addition to specific provisions dealing with civil and criminal enforcement, as well as enforcement in the digital environment, ACTA contains a section prescribing how states bound by the agreement must provide for measures of IP enforcement at the border. In section 3 of Chapter II, Articles 13 to 22 contain rules on the scope of border measures (Articles.13, 14 & 16), the initiation of proceedings by right holders or custom authorities (Articles.15–17) and a further procedure that deals with allegedly infringing goods (Articles.18–22). These rules must be viewed in the context of the enforcement provisions in the TRIPS Agreement, in particular Articles 51–60. In general, ACTA goes beyond TRIPS and requires states to adopt higher enforcement standards. At the same time, the new treaty narrows those TRIPS provisions that protect the interests of traders and owners of goods subject to border measures. This chapter discusses some particularly controversial aspects of these “TRIPS-plus” standards for enforcing IPRs at the border. The focus is on whether ACTA mandates (or allows) the seizure of goods – such as generic medicines – in transit, and what safeguards the final text of the agreement contains to avoid such seizures. Scope of ACTA Border Measures ACTA’s provisions on border measures extend the existing minimum standards under TRIPS Article 51, which obliges WTO members to foresee border measures only against “importation of counterfeit trademark or pirated copyright goods.” Together, ACTA Articles 13 & 16 determine the IP infringements and the trade activities for which parties to the agreement must foresee border measures in their national laws. These rules were amongst the most contentious issues during the treaty’s negotiations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.012 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.026 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.014 | 0.013 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".