Blog round-up: patents and politics, the US Supreme Court and Russian domain names
02 November 2009
Managing Intellectual Property
This week, bloggers have looked at drug patents and developing countries, a potential new case at the US Supreme Court, Icann’s international domain names and the position of the word “barristers” in the dictionary
Drugs and developing countries
IP Tango stepped into complex debates over access to medicines, drugs and pricing this week. In one post, Jorge Miguel Arruda da Veiga from Brazil looked at the role of the Health National Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), which often comes into conflict with the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office.
At present, both the Patent Office and ANVISA have the power to examine applications to see if they meet the patentability requirements. But an opinion from the Federal General Attorney has said that ANVISA can only examine patents from a public health perspective. “Thus the patentability requirements of a...
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