[A2k] Compulsory licenses of pharmaceutical patents for export

[James Love]

It is a pretty restrictive implementation of the new WTO rules.  Jamie

On Jun 13, 2006, at 11:24 AM, R.Corrigan wrote:

> EU Law Blog reports:
>
> "The Community has adopted and published a regulation - Regulation
> 816/2006 - on compulsory licensing of patents relating to the
> manufacture of pharmaceutical products for export to countries with
> health problems.
>
> This regulation sets up, within the EC, the system that had been
> foreseen in paragraph 6 of the Decision of the General Council of the
> WTO of August 30th, 2003 implementing the Doha Declaration on the
> TRIPS
> Agreement and public health. It enters into force at the end of June
> 2006."
>
> http://eulaw.typepad.com/eulawblog/2006/06/compulsory_lice.html
>
> Regards,
> Ray
>
> Ray Corrigan, Senior Lecturer in Technology, Open University; Mailing
> address: Open University in the South, Foxcombe Hall, Boars Hill,
> Oxford, OX1 5HR, UK;  Tel +44 (01865) 327000; blog
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