Blog round-up: WTO, the Red List, Is it fake? and more
22 March 2010
Managing Intellectual Property
This week's blog round-up features items from IP Tango, the BBC, IP Dragon, the EPLAW Blog, Spicy IP and Patently O
Cotton's IP connection
IP Tango considers the trade spat between Brazil and the US that could see the South American country take retaliatory action against US IP owners following the WTO's finding that the US government unfairly subsidises its cotton farmers.
Last week Brazil's government published a document setting out 21 measures that it will take into consideration when deciding which IP rights to target. IP Tango says that the measures range from "denial, for a limited time, of the protection period for rights over medicine (including veterinary) product or process patents", "grant of compulsory licensing" to "suspension of the owner's exclusive right to prevent the import and commercialization on the domestic market of medicines, veterinary and agricultural chemical and biotechnology".
"Let's see if the Brazilian strategy will work out," concludes blogger José Carlos Vaz e Dias.
IP Tango also notes that that the EU has removed Chile from...
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