BRUNEI needs to begin studying its options of setting up a patent and trademark office to help improve the country’s reputation in protecting intellectual property rights (IPR), an expert said yesterday.
The establishment of a patent office and ensuring that it is manned by people with the necessary qualifications and training….
To begin with, the WHO is looking to create the patent pool for AIDS/HIV drugs and later it would be expanded to cover TB and Malaria drugs. With Indian generic producers being key players in the scheme of things, the WHO is holding an informal technical consultation with lots of Indian companies here on June 23, it is learnt. Leading companies like Ranbaxy, Torrent, Jubilant, Strides Arcolab, Matrix, leaders of organizations like SPIC and IDMA, manufacturers from Thailand and Bangladesh are expected to attend the meeting.
PHARMACEUTICAL firms are against limiting prices of 22 of their patented drug products as planned by the government under the maximum retail price (MRP) regimen, arguing this would violate their right to benefit from their patents.
Reiner Gloor, executive director of the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP), said the law clearly says the MRP is called for only when a drug is four or five times more expensive than its Asean counterpart, if there are less than four generic counterparts, if the innovator has the top-selling product, and if it’s not for a public health concern such as the A(H1N1) virus.
NEW DELHI: Diversified Japanese group Hitachi has warned of legal action against parties who violate the company’s trademarks in India.
The company in a recent public notice said that without its consent, no party should be using any trademarks that are identical or similar with that of the firm.
Hitachi, which is operating in India as Hitachi India Trading Pvt Ltd, has significant presence in the country in different market segments including electronics, industrial components and equipment.
Bandar Seri Begawan - Brunei’s Intellectual Property Law is finally seeing some action following the charges brought against a company for using pirated copies of computer software.
The company, EcoPrime Networks Sdn Bhd, had been charged under the countries’ Copyright Order in Court early this month for using copies of unlicensed Microsoft software in their business operations, the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) stated yesterday. It is the first known case, where an academic institution or a company that provided academic training has been legally charged for using pirated copies.
BRUNEI’S Intellectual Property Law is finally seeing some action following the charges brought against a company for using pirated copies of computer software.
The company, EcoPrime Networks Sdn Bhd, had been charged under the countries’ Copyright Order in Court early this month for using copies of unlicensed Microsoft software in their business operations, the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) stated yesterday.
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Saturday, June 20, 2009 – (Business Wire India)
Panelists at the session on IP Management, Licensing and Valuationon the final day of Bangalore Bio 2009 opined that India has just entered a phase of not only filing more and more IPRs, but also realising the true values of IPs. According to them: India has unparalleled opportunity in commercialising IPRs. Most of the hurdles in India in realizing the true potential of IPs are self imposed and avoidable. There should a change in seeing the science from technology perspective to commerce perspective. Experience of the people who are filing IPRs is not up to the mark. Industry should build capacity to generate more IPs from business point of view than scientists’ perspective. The walls between IP management offices and scientists should go.
The World Customs Organization this week will try to reach agreement on a softened replacement group against counterfeiting and piracy that may defuse concerns of overreaching by customs officials. It also will consider a proposal to add an explicit focus on public health and safety to its enforcement activities.
The WCO Policy Commission will meet from 22-27 June in Brussels. It will consider a recommendation to replace a previous, controversial group on counterfeiting and piracy with a softened version limited to dialogue. It also will consider whether to add some variation of the words “public health and safety” to the terms of reference of the WCO Enforcement Committee.
Mumbai: The EU has joined the bandwagon of multinational drug makers to exert pressure on India to agree to provisions that could affect the registration and availability of low-cost medicines.
The EU wants India to incorporate “patent extensions” and “grant of data exclusivity “in the mutual Free Trade Arrangement (FTA) between the two. These provisions are beyond WTO’s TRIPS (Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights).
Experts are of the opinion that EU is overlooking the development gap between the countries in supporting such a move.Though India has rejected the two demands of patent extensions and data exclusivity in the first round of negotiations which happened earlier in the year, there is every possibility that the EU could exert maximum pressure over India and make it accept these provisions the next time around,” said an international IP expert.
BANGKOK - Thailand plans to toughen its intellectual property protection law to punish, for the first time, buyers of products that breach copyright and trademark laws, aiming primarily at pirated music and movies and fake brand-name goods, a senior Thai official said Thursday.
In an effort to fight increased infringement of local music and movies, the plan includes amending current laws also to penalise lessors of any property used for manufacturing, storing or selling products that violate the copyrights and trademark laws.
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