Japan negotiated an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). No official drafts were published. The FFII followed closely the negotiations. ACTA contained a new international benchmark for legal frameworks on the enforcement of copyrights, trade mark rights, patents and others. The FFII outlined shortcomings and democratic deficit, presented an <a class="http" href="http://action.ffii.org/acta/Analysis">analysis</a> and put together a <a class="http" href="http://action.ffii.org/acta/lisbon">draft recomm