<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Rodrigo Pereira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rodripe@gmail.com">rodripe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote">2010/5/7 Amelia Andersdotter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:teirdes@gmail.com" target="_blank">teirdes@gmail.com</a>></span><div class="im"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>once unprotected, always unprotected. that's why they're so keen to<br>
get the extensions in place on time.<br></blockquote></div></div><br>This apparently does not apply to exceptions in patents...<br><br>"Generic drugs from India which are meant for Latin American
countries have been seized by European port authorities alleging
infringement of intellectual property rights."<br><br><a href="http://www.dancewithshadows.com/pillscribe/huge-seizure-of-indian-generic-drugs-at-eu-ports-india-global-ngos-cry-foul/" target="_blank">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/pillscribe/huge-seizure-of-indian-generic-drugs-at-eu-ports-india-global-ngos-cry-foul/</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br>Every jurisdiction has their own regulation on copyright, patents and trademarks.<br>The drugs were obviously not patent protected in India and Latin America, but they were in the EU.(*)<br><br>However if anything becomes unprotected in a certain jurisdiction it *usually* remains like that *there*.<br>
E.g. in Switzerland they didn't introduce 70 year copyright protection before 1992 (which was quite late), so all works from creators deceased 1942 or before are in the public domain; I can create new art with it and distribute it freely within Switzerland, but I might infringe German copyright if I were to distribute it (or even transport it through) there, given that those works I based my creation upon are not in the public domain yet there.<br>
<br>(*) I think that's actually a strange example, as up to now AFAIK only trademark infringement could be easily seized at ports, but not products with infringing copyright or patents. But maybe that's only true for Switzerland and not the rest of Europe...<br>