Breaking: Brazil SC rules patent extensions unconstitutional
In a nine to two ruling, justices decided in Direct Action 5,529 to remove the guarantee of a 10-year minimum term for successful drug patent applicants May 07 2021
The Brazil Supreme
Court yesterday removed the guarantee of a 10-year minimum term for
successful pharmaceutical patent applicants.
Ruling nine to two in Direct Action 5,529, the court rendered the sole paragraph of Article 40 of Brazil s Industrial Property Law unconstitutional.
The court will come together again next Wednesday, May 12,
to decide whether the ruling should have retroactive effect.
If the justices decide that it does, granted patents for
Inventa International
Introduction
This study aims to provide an approach of the topics followed by a patent examiner when a patent application is processed by a Patent Office during the substantive examination phase, in the context of the Angolan Patent Law (APL). As a matter of comparison, the same topics are evaluated according to the European Patent Convention (EPC), wherein we focus on the main differences between the two legal frameworks.
Angola is a Member State of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) since 1985, a member of the Paris Union for the Protection of Industrial Property since 2007, and a member of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) since 2007. Moreover, Angola is a member of the World Trade Organization, and consequently of the Agreement On Trade-Related Aspects Of Intellectual Property Rights(TRIPS) since 1996.
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FILE PHOTO: A nurse holds balloons during a protest asking for COVID-19 vaccines and in favour of SUS (Unique Health System) during World Health Day in Brasilia, Brazil April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Wednesday suspended extensions of drug patents in the country, a preliminary decision that could lower costs for drugs critical to treating COVID-19 patients at the expense of pharmaceutical firms.
Justice Dias Toffoli cited the “public health emergency arising from COVID-19” in his ruling. The ruling, which takes effect immediately, must still go before the full Supreme Court for consideration and could be reversed.
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