Journal themusicgod1's Journal: TRIPS, Canada, 1998, the EC and WTO trade Dispute 153 (
Interestingly wink has been more helpful than Google in this search.
This Trade Dispute needs a better website. Right now the only comprehensive website that I can find on it is the WTO's own site on the matter, and by the looks of their site the issue has not been resolved (is this possible?)
The idea as I understand it is this: The EU notices in around 1997 that Canada's Patent Act is not up to spec with TRIPS, which aparently Canada signed. So Canada
a) fixes the Patent Act to comply
b) and files a dispute with the WTO regarding the European Commission's patents, and how they aparently discriminated on the basis of technology in regards to patents.
Then...the story stops.
What happened? Google has some papers which I'm digging through but it's mostly on stuff that relates to this but not in a direct way.
This Trade Dispute needs a better website. Right now the only comprehensive website that I can find on it is the WTO's own site on the matter, and by the looks of their site the issue has not been resolved (is this possible?)
The idea as I understand it is this: The EU notices in around 1997 that Canada's Patent Act is not up to spec with TRIPS, which aparently Canada signed. So Canada
a) fixes the Patent Act to comply
b) and files a dispute with the WTO regarding the European Commission's patents, and how they aparently discriminated on the basis of technology in regards to patents.
Then...the story stops.
What happened? Google has some papers which I'm digging through but it's mostly on stuff that relates to this but not in a direct way.
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