VPATAPP Alert_Patent Backlogs Fuel Efforts To Extend Pharma Patent Terms In Thailand And Brazil, AIDS Activists Say

Source: http://www.ip-watch.org/2018/05/18/patent-backlogs-fuel-efforts-extend-pharma-patent-terms-thailand-brazil-aids-activists-say/

For a variety of reasons, Thailand and Brazil have huge backlogs of pharmaceutical patent applications. The delay in patent examinations is creating pressure on the countries to extend patent protection terms to the detriment of access to affordable medicines, AIDS organisations say.

Thailand “Innovative Step Examination” Creates Patent Logjam

Patent Term Extension “Must Not Happen in Thailand”

Brazilian Patent Exam System “Overwhelmed”

Article 40 Creates “Extra Monopoly Years”

Bringing “Public Interest Considerations to the Core of the Patent System”