THE Commerce and Industry Minister, Mr Anand Sharma, has reiterated
that India will not accept any TRIPS Plus decision which will be outside
multilateral framework. Speaking after the 3rd Annual Intellectual property
Awards, here today, the Minister expressed concern over the growing efforts of
certain developed countries to enact Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA)
which contain TRIPS Plus provisions relating to enforcement of Intellectual
Properties.
Referring to seizure of Indian generic medicines in EU while in transit
to Latin America in October 2008, Mr Sharma informed that as a result of India’s
firm stand, during the recent India-EU Summit, EU informed that the Commission
has intensified efforts on finalisation of proposal for revision of Regulation
1383 and hopefully they should be able to complete their international processes
shortly.
He
further informed of a major breakthrough at the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) when Member-States of EU agreed to a persistent demand by
India for commencing negotiations for creation of international legal
instruments for protection of India’s generic resources, traditional knowledge,
traditional cultural expressions.
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