RESEARCHERS AND BIOTECH COMPANIES PROTEST AGAINST INNOVATIVE MEDICINE DEAL
July 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUP of researchers and biotechnology companies have protested to the European Commission against the European Union's (EU) Innovative Medicines Joint Technology Initiative (IMI), claiming it insufficiently protects their intellectual property. A joint statement was released by the European University Association (EUA); research and technology organisation federation EARTO; German biotechnology association BIO Deutschland; and similar national associations from Belgium, Spain and Sweden. The group claims complex and weak IP protection for ...
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