**Updated 19 March 2013, after the Supreme Court released its opinion in Kirtsaeng ruling to permit parallel importation of copyrighted works**
On Tuesday, 5 March 2013, the Ambassador of Nepal made the following intervention at the World Trade Organization’s Council for TRIPS, on behalf of the LDC Group on agenda item 11, Request for an Extension of the Transitional Period under Article 66.1 of the TRIPS Agreement.
WTO Council for TRIPS Meeting, March 5-6, 2013
Agenda item 11 – Request for an Extension of the Transitional Period under Article 66.1 of the TRIPS AgreementPresentation of Request (IP/C/W/583) by Nepal on Behalf of LDCs Group
Mr. Chairman,
Compulsory licensing provisions – Greece patent law
LAW No. 1733/87 (FEK 171 A’ of 22.09.1987)
“Technology transfer, inventions, and technological innovation” as amended
by Art. 18, of Law No. 1739/1987 (FEK 201, A’ of 20.11.1987)PART ONE -INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY ORGANISATION (OBI)
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PART TWO PATENTS
Article 13
Non-contractual licence5 March 2013-WTO TRIPS Council-Intervention of India on Intellectual Property and Innovation: Small and medium Sized Enterprises
On 5 March 2013, the Government of India delivered the following statement at the TRIPS Council on agenda item 13, Intellectual Property and Innovation: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, a standalone item tabled by Chile, Chinese Taipei, the Republic of Korea and the United States of America.
We thank the delegations of Chinese Taipei, Korea, the United States and others for tabling an agenda item on “Intellectual Property and Innovation: Small and medium Sized Enterprises” which we understand is a standalone item.KEI on Medicines Patent Pool license (and MoU) with ViiV Healthcare
KEI comment on the Medicines Patent Pool license and MoU with ViiV Healthcare
28 February 2013FYI: James Love (james.love@keionline.org, +1.202.361.3040), Krista Cox (krista.cox@keionline.org, +1.202.332.2670) or Thiru Balasubramaniam (thiru@keionline.org).
The 27 February 2013 agreements between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and ViiV Healthcare, a joint venture of GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Shionogi will expand access to affordable pediatric formulas for HIV/AIDS.
The US Department of Justice and USPTO call for compulsory licenses on thousands of “standards-essential” patents
On January 8, 2013, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) issued a joint statement on “remedies for standards-essential patents subject to voluntary F/RAND commitments. (Copy of statement here). Continue Reading
EU and US push WIPO negotiations against human rights, for restrictions on exceptions
WIPO is spending five days in a special session to work on the text for a treaty on copyright exceptions for persons who are blind or have other disabilities.
KEI has obtained a copy of the latest version as of Friday morning, which is attached below.
The first four days have been consumed with highly technical but important debates of the international rules for copyright exceptions. The US and the EU are demanding that all sorts of language be put into the treaty referring to a three step test to restrict the use of exceptions.
Comments on the the Bayer appeal of the compulsory license on Nexavar patents, February 17, 2013
These are KEI’s February 17, 2013 comments on the the Bayer appeal of the compulsory license on Nexavar patents.
Comments on the the Bayer appeal of the compulsory license on Nexavar patents.
February 17, 2013
The dispute is Bayer Corporation v Natco Pharma Limited, and is being heardbefore the Intellectual Property Appellate Board At Chennai (O.R.A. no. 35/PT/2012).
Why do US and EU trade negotiators hate the Berne Copyright Limitations and Exceptions?
For the past year, a treaty on copyright exceptions for persons who are blind or have other disabilities has been hung up on demands by the European Union to insert provocative language on the so called “three step test” in… Continue Reading
Why do US and EU trade negotiators hate the Berne Copyright Limitations and Exceptions?
For the past year, a treaty on copyright exceptions for persons who are blind or have other disabilities has been hung up on demands by the European Union to insert provocative language on the so called “three step test” in copyright into the treaty. The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement is in the middle of a similar dispute, with the US pushing language that would place the three step test on top of all copyright limitations and exceptions, including those set out a particular cases in the Berne Convention. Continue Reading