compulsory licence

This is the matter of the compulsory licences which have been mentioned.

This means that we should review issues such as compulsory licences with an eye to research and public health.

We must ask ourselves, though, what happens if a compulsory licence is actually granted.

This is a good newspaper but if everyone in the country had to pay a compulsory licence towards it, then its standards would go down.

Moreover, they are still rejecting the principle of compulsory licences.

The mechanism can operate without any compulsory licence actually being granted.

Only under exceptional circumstances, then, does it really make sense to award compulsory licences.

This solution was a compromise between the two positions and established a system based on compulsory licences.

The objective of paragraph 6 must be to ensure that countries with no production capacity can genuinely use compulsory licences.

Those with the capacity to produce medicines should be able to decide the circumstances in which they might need to resort to compulsory licences.

We believe that these concerns regarding public health can, legitimately, be considered as good grounds for granting a compulsory licence.

He also opposes the compulsory licence fee that funds the BBC.

This rejection of compulsory licences forces us to question the duration of the protection of patents.

Broadcasting in the GDR was financed by a compulsory licence fee.

It also appears that the exemptions discriminate against smaller countries which lack the manufacturing base to produce the required life-saving drugs under compulsory licences.

(b) Each Member has the right to grant compulsory licences and the freedom to determine the grounds upon which such licences are granted.

I would particularly support the establishment of a global infectious disease fund and the introduction of compulsory licences to improve the availability of medicines.

Additional applications will become possible if it transpires that the quantity of medicines initially allocated in the compulsory licence is insufficient to relieve the suffering.

TRIPS may well make compulsory licences possible, but they are not a necessity, for there are alternatives to them.

This guide explains the criteria that must be fulfilled in order to receive PBR, the entitlements conveyed, the application process and compulsory licences.

These poor countries have neither sufficient flexibility nor the capacity to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies located in the countries which are able to issue a compulsory licence.

In November 2001, the developing countries were rejoicing in the Doha Declaration, which authorised them to have recourse to compulsory licences for public health reasons.

WTO members should resolve differences on compulsory licences and work to ensure that pharmaceutical products can be made available to the developing world at the lowest possible prices.

Allowing self-handling without a prior compulsory licence has other negative consequences, as has already been mentioned here: a lack of safety and problems with environmental disasters at sea.

When, moreover, the copyright has expired and compulsory licences have been granted, we politicians, too, will bear responsibility for universities and industry having incentives to carry out research.