POLAND PATENTS
January 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE POLISH government may apply for an especially long transitional period from new European legislation extending patent production for new medicines from generic copies. With the European Parliament having approved extending this protection from the existing six to between eight and 11 years and the Council of Ministers poised to approve the regulation, eastern European countries joining the European Union (EU) in May have called for the status quo to apply to them. Now the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita has reported Warsaw will apply for a ...
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