What is the legal framework for patent prosecution in Norway?
The Patent Act(1) constitutes the basic legislative framework regarding patents and their extent under Norwegian law. The Patent Act and its accompanying rules (known as
patentforskriftene in Norwegian) regulate:
the registration, administrative opposition, cancellation and invalidation of granted patents.
Norway is internationally obliged to harmonise its patent legislation with the European Patent Convention (EPC) by way of Protocol 28 of the European Economic Area agreement. Although the Norwegian delegation signed the first version of the EPC in 1973, Parliament did not ratify it until 2007 and Norway became an EPC member state in 2008. In 2015 Norway acceded to the London Agreement, meaning that a European patent specification in English (or an English translation thereof) no longer must be translated to Norwegian. Norway is also a party to:
Nirmala Sitharaman calls for sharing of technologies on Covid vaccines; says no space for vaccine nationalism
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Nirmala Sitharaman calls for sharing of technologies on Covid vaccines; says no space for vaccine nationalism
PTI / May 3, 2021, 16:35 IST
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NEW DELHI: Stressing that there cannot be any vaccine nationalism, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday urged nations to share technologies on Covid vaccines amid the pandemic.
She also pitched for examining Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement in the light of the coronavirus pandemic. Countries will have to be open about sharing vaccine-based technologies. The TRIPS agreement will have to be looked at in the context of the pandemic. There cannot be any more vaccine nationalism, countries will have to be flexible about it, she said at the annual meet of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).