CHINA AND INDIA CALL FOR COMPULSORY GREEN INNOVATION LICENSING
December 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE CHINESE and Indian governments have been calling for international climate change agreements to include 'compulsory licensing' for inventions that reduce carbon emissions. This would weaken intellectual property rights for developers, enabling such technology to be copied cheaply. The idea has been resisted by the US and European Union who say weak patent protection discourages innovation.
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THE CHINESE and Indian governments have been calling for international climate change agreements to include 'compulsory licensing' for inventions that reduce carbon emissions. This would weaken intellectual property rights for developers, enabling such technology to be copied cheaply. The idea has been resisted by the US and European Union who say weak patent protection discourages innovation.
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