WTO 'expected to announce' 17-year drug patent waiver for LDCs

04-11-2015

WTO 'expected to announce' 17-year drug patent waiver for LDCs

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The World Trade Organization (WTO) is expected to announce a 17-year extension to an agreement that exempts the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs) from a duty to grant patents covering pharmaceutical drugs, an activist group has claimed.


WTO; KEI; Least Developed Countries; UN; pharmaceutical patents; USTR

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