National or Extreme Urgency Sample Clauses

National or Extreme Urgency. Article 30 A (b) mentions national or extreme urgency as possible grounds for compulsory licensing. It is stipulated that the pre-negotiation requirement is waived in these two circumstances. National or extreme urgency seems to imply when a nation is threatened from an exterior or interior force. It is evident that such a situation gives the patent holder an unacceptable leverage in licence negotiations. In a critical situation, a Government does not want its power nor the welfare of a people to be dependent on a profit-seeking patent owner. Patent law is usually also complemented with a governmental expropriation legislation for these situations. The strong patent rights of the medical industry and the threat of national stability being partly health-related, this is a source of strong conflicts of interest. The two major events, after the TRIPS agreement had entered into force and where compulsory licensing was heavily debated were health related. One time was the USA the defending party and the other time the plaintiff. The former situation concerned the AIDS256 crisis in Africa.257 In 1994, one-eighth of the population suffered from AIDS. Although medication 252 TRIPS Article 31. b.‌ 253 TRIPS Article 31. c and k. 254 TRIPS Article 31. c. 255 TRIPS Article 31. l.‌ 256 Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome. 257 The facts of the dispute are taken from Xxxx X. Xxxx; Compulsory licensing provisions under the TRIPS agreement: balancing pills and patents, 15 AM. U. Int’l. L. Rev 941 (2000). retarding the symptoms of the disease was available on the South African market, very few could afford the medication. The medicines were protected by patents, for the most part owned by American companies. In 1997 the South African Parliament proposed a new law allowing the Ministry of Health to grant compulsory licensing of the patented medicines, rendering them affordable to the needy. The United States Government, acting on behalf of the American industry, strongly opposed the proposition. The issue was settled outside the WTO dispute settlement system. The latter situation concerned the anthrax terror attack in the USA effectuated through the public mail system in the autumn of 2002. The leading medication against anthrax is the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, a substance patented by the German Bayer Corporation and sold under the trademark Cipro. At the time, the U.S Government estimated that it would need medication for 10 million people in order to handle the effects of a la...
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