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Daily Podcast – May 10, 2021
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Nadine Ramdass.
Making headlines: Ramaphosa says vaccine should be made available to all, not just to the highest bidders, Nersa urges stakeholders to join it in opposing Eskom’s latest court challenge and, Eastern Cape premier to take action against Magashule over stolen money claims
Legal framework
Turkey is a party to a number of international conventions, including the Paris Convention, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and the Berne Convention. Turkey also has specific national legislation, including:
the Industrial Property Code 6769;
the Law on Turkish Intellectual and Artistic Works (5846) (known as the Copyright Act);
the Code of Commerce;
the Anti-smuggling Law; and
Law 5651 on Regulating Broadcasting in the Internet and Fighting Against Crimes Committed through Internet Broadcasting (known as the Internet Law).
Border measures
According to Turkish legislation, it is possible to register IP rights (ie, trademarks, industrial designs, patents, utility models, copyrights, geographical indications, integrated circuit topographies and plant breeders’ rights) before Customs, as the crucial first step in the fight against counterfeiting.
High Commissioner of Canada to India, Nadir Patel (ANI)
India s focus must be how to come out of current COVID crisis, says Canadian Envoy ANI | Updated: May 11, 2021 20:23 IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): High Commissioner of Canada to India, Nadir Patel on Tuesday said that the focus should not be on the rise in coronavirus cases in India due to the B1617 virus variant rather on how to assist to address this situation so that the crisis is mitigated. It would be easy to see how significant rise in this particular variant in terms of cases. We are moving forward to address this and getting on other side of this, said Patel on Indian variant of coronavirus B.1.617 variant, which WHO has classified as a variant of concern.
The Global Clamour for Ending Vaccine Inequalities Must Go Beyond Just the IP Issue
The COVID-19 crisis has made it increasingly clear that the corporate-led world neither values human life nor the challenges that we face.
A citizen receives a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 21, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes/File Photo
World11/May/2021
Bowing to pressure from fellow Democrats and amidst rising global clamour for sharing resources, technology and perhaps most importantly, the much-needed technical know-how with the developing world to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the US President Joe Biden finally agreed to support patent waiver for vaccines at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).