On Tuesday, 5 November 2014, Pakistan delivered the following intervention on opposition systems.
Mr. Chairman,
The agenda item on quality of patents also include another item on “opposition systems” which was not discussed by the Committee. I want to make a small statement on opposition systems.
In the words of the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) was created,
created in 1998 to serve as a forum to discuss issues, facilitate coordination and provide guidance concerning the progressive international development of patent law.
On 28 October 2014, India delivered the following intervention at the WTO TRIPS Council’s annual review of the Paragraph 6 system (designed to facilitate compulsory licensing for export of pharmaceuticals).
In particular, India noted that
During the WIPO 2014 General Assembly’s discussions of patents and health in the context of the work of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patent (SCP), the Obama Administration embraced an aggressive position against WIPO technical assistance on the use of patent limitations and exceptions.
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