E-drug: US asks Brazil to derogate decree on compulsory licensing
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[copied from Pharm-Policy; original message from the
treatment-access@hivnet.ch discussion group. WB]
In several meetings with USTR, CPT, Act Up, MSF and others have been
assured that the US government is not taking action against Brazil for
the October 1999 Presidential Decree regarding compulsory licensing.
Apparently that is not true. The following is a note to Treatment
Access Forum, that describes Secretary of Commerce Daley's request that
the Brazil government derogate the decree on patents (October 6th,
1999), concerning compulsory licensing. This yet another astonishing
example of the gap between the rhetoric in the US versus the actions on
the ground on these issues.
Jamie Love
<love@cptech.org>