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FILE PHOTO: A nurse holds balloons during a protest asking for COVID-19 vaccines and in favour of SUS (Unique Health System) during World Health Day in Brasilia, Brazil April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
BRASILIA (Reuters) -A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Wednesday suspended extensions of drug patents in the country, a preliminary decision that could lower costs for drugs critical to treating COVID-19 patients at the expense of pharmaceutical firms.
Justice Dias Toffoli cited the “public health emergency arising from COVID-19” in his ruling. The ruling, which takes effect immediately, must still go before the full Supreme Court for consideration and could be reversed.
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FILE PHOTO: A nurse holds balloons during a protest asking for COVID-19 vaccines and in favour of SUS (Unique Health System) during World Health Day in Brasilia, Brazil April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Wednesday suspended extensions of drug patents in the country, a preliminary decision that could lower costs for drugs critical to treating COVID-19 patients at the expense of pharmaceutical firms.
Justice Dias Toffoli cited the “public health emergency arising from COVID-19” in his ruling. The ruling, which takes effect immediately, must still go before the full Supreme Court for consideration and could be reversed.
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After some uncertainty due to the covid-19 pandemic, the first Angolan IP Congress is now confirmed to take place both physically and online on 23 and 24 April 2021. It will be backed by the new Angolan Intellectual Law Association (AADI) – located in Angola s Catholic University – and aims to teach attendees about the Angolan Industrial Property Law, with a particular focus on trademarks.
The theme of the conference is ‘the protection of industrial property and copyright as a source of attraction for investment and the generation of economic and social development’.
With regard to trademarks, there will be debates on:
the protection of Angolan trademarks in the Southern African Development Community free-trade area; and
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From time to time we are receiving requests from some clients,
particularly those acting as a distributor or a representative, for
filing an application for registration of a trademark in their own
name in respect of the trademarks they are selling and distributing
in Turkey. Whenever we face such a request, our first question is
always:
Have you received permission from the proprietor
of trademark? Some of the clients may even sometimes
show a negative reaction to this question. Because as the
proprietor of the trademark is seated abroad and is probably not