Taxpayer funding can foster poor intellectual property outcomes like compulsory licensing and uncertain ownership rights.
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Japan, for its part, has asked that vaccines be excluded from any such compulsory licensing.
Such fears have prompted rich countries to demand tight restrictions on this sort of compulsory licensing.
It was the first use of compulsory licensing under Indian patent laws passed in 2005.
As noted in our February post, some experts expressed serious doubts about whether a compulsory licensing scheme could be implemented to forestall future exclusionary conduct.
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But few of the world's poorest countries are in a position to use compulsory licensing since they lack a domestic drug industry to make copies.
Compulsory licensing as a viable remedy .
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An unfavorable ruling could include monetary damages or an injunction prohibiting Intel from manufacturing or selling one or more products, precluding particular business practices, impacting Intel's ability to design its products, or requiring other remedies such as compulsory licensing of intellectual property.
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Although the arguments about access to drugs through parallel imports and compulsory-licensing agreements may have some theoretical validity, the disincentive to investment provided by such measures is massive.
The Premier League's new financial rules - which were brought in on Monday - are similar to Uefa's current licensing guidelines, but differ in that they are compulsory to clubs and punishment takes the form of sanctions as opposed to outright exclusion from competition.
Mr Swann asked the minister to clarify her position on a policy of compulsory "catch and release" on waters owned by the department, and her position on licensing of netsmen off the north coast.
She called for a social strategy - to look at minimum pricing and licensing controls on home delivery alcohol services - as well as criminal justice controls, such as making breathalysers compulsory.
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