CHINA
February 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLCHINA has agreed to stop its pharmaceutical manufacturers from copying medicines patented in Austria, Finland and Sweden, extending 'administrative protection' enjoyed by the rest of the European Union to these countries.Beijing has been refusing to grant these rights - which are a form of patent protection - because when it agreed to stop its citizens copying European Union patented pharmaceuticals, neither Austria, Sweden nor Finland were EU members.As a result, manufacturers from these three countries have suffered an estimated Euro 25 million ...
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