TAIWAN & POLAND
February 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLAND and Taiwan have remained on a United States government watch list on counterfeiting and fraud, largely because Washington thinks they can do more to fight pharmaceuticals piracy. The US Trade Representative (USTR) office said it would push Taiwan to pass a law preventing unfair commercial use of pharmaceutical test data. And regarding Poland, it said: "Problems remain with (over) the protection of test data and coordination between the (national) health ministry and the patent agency".
POLAND and Taiwan have remained on a United States government watch list on counterfeiting and fraud, largely because Washington thinks they can do more to fight pharmaceuticals piracy. The US Trade Representative (USTR) office said it would push Taiwan to pass a law preventing unfair commercial use of pharmaceutical test data. And regarding Poland, it said: "Problems remain with (over) the protection of test data and coordination between the (national) health ministry and the patent agency".
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