From Bristol Myers Squibb’s 10-K report, section on Risk Factors, for fiscal year ended December 31, 2012.
Number of words in Item A1: 3605
Compulsory licensing of patents: 27
Item 1A. RISK FACTORS.
From Merck’s 10-K report, section on Risk Factors, for fiscal year ended December 31, 2012.
Number of words in Item 1A: 8038
Compulsory licenses: 44
Item 1A.Risk Factors.
From AbbVie’s 10-K report, section on Risk Factors, for fiscal year ended December 31, 2012.
Number of words in Item 1A: 11,093
Compulsory licensing of patents: 88
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
From Pfizer’s 10-K report, section on Risk Factors, for fiscal year ended December 31, 2012.
Number of words in Item A1: 7790
Compulsory licensing of patents: 63
Counterfeit products: 126
Pricing Pressures and Government Regulation: 604
Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Risk: 324
Global Economic Conditions: 382
Prohibition against the use of federal funds for reimbursement of erectile dysfunction medications: 50
Below is the final version of the conclusions from SCCR 26 (followed at the end with a short KEI commentary).
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World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
Twenty–sixth Session
Geneva, December 20, 2013
Conclusions
Protection of Broadcasting Organizations
SCCR 26 December 20, 2013 afternoon: workplan discussion
After 5 days of diplomatic if not collegial meetings (at least in plenary, I do not really know what is going on in informals), the last day afternoon session is quite tense. The conclusions have been drafted (I briefly saw a leaked version) and the group coordinators have met with the Chair.
Discussions regarding an “International legal instrument in whatever form on limitations and exceptions for educational teaching and research institutions and persons with other disabilities” 12/20/13
Friday December 20, 2013 10am to 1pm
This morning the WIPO SCCR is going through the list of the following topics:
Topic #1 Preservation
Topic #2 Reproduction and safeguarding of copies
Topic #3 Legal Deposit
Topic #4 Library Lending
Topic #5 Parallel Importations
Topic #6 Cross-border uses
Topic #7 Orphan works, retracted and withdrawn works, and works out of commerce
Topic #8 Limitations on Liability of libraries and Archives
Topic #9 Technological Measures of Protection
Topic #10 Contract
Topic #11 Right to translate works
The morning session was a continuation of yesterday informal regarding scope and beneficiaries of the proposed treaty. The delegates also discussed the 4 topics of the Japanese non paper which dealt specifically with webcasting. The second part of the morning session was about Article 9 which deals with what rights would the Broadcasting organisations acquire and be protected by the proposed treaty.
According to WIPO Secretariat’s summary, the four topics from the nonpaper from Japan and the general views of the delegates were:
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