Brazil Puts Patients Before Patents

José Dirceu no seu Blog indicou este artigo, publicado na Internet nos Estados-Unidos, sobre a decisão de quebra de patente tomada pelo Presidente Lula.

O autor mostra como a própria justiça americana aceita em alguns casos este tipo de medida, incluso com apoio da mídia, mas quando se trata do Brasil ou a Tailândia fala-se em licencia compulsória e falta de respeito com a propriedade intelectual.

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Rejects Bush administration pressure and issues compulsory license on important AIDS drug

por James Love para The Huffington Post

On national television Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva has just announced a compulsory license on patents controlled by Merck for the important AIDS drug Efavirenz.

Brazil has a large and growing population of AIDS patients, and cannot afford to sustain treatment without obtaining low cost generic copies of AIDS drugs.

Press coverage of today's action will likely have a narrative about poor countries breaking rich country patents, but it could also be presented as a larger discussion about the problems of giving exclusive rights to patent owners.

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal praised the US Supreme Court for "restoring some sanity to America's runaway patent law" by giving "judges much-needed flexibility in granting or denying permanent injunctions." The WSJ was referring to the 2006 decision involving an attempt to enforce an injunction against eBay, enforcing a patent owner's "exclusive" right to determine who can use the invention.

The U.S. Supreme court decision in eBay made it clear that, after considering the facts in the case and the public interest, a judge could choose to not enforce the exclusive right, and instead authorize the infringer to use the patent, in return for a court determined royalty.

Outside of the U.S., when Thailand or Brazil decide to allow non-voluntary use of a patent, we call it a compulsory license, and a smug U.S. and European press talk about the lack of respect for intellectual property in certain developing countries (the ones that dare to issue compulsory licenses).

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