{"id":85583,"date":"2020-07-06T20:21:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16232"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:21:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:51:51","slug":"issue-compulsory-licences-for-manufacture-of-ramdesivir-cpim-tells-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/issue-compulsory-licences-for-manufacture-of-ramdesivir-cpim-tells-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue compulsory licences for manufacture of Ramdesivir, CPI(M) tells govt."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>CPI(Marxist) has said that the government should issue compulsory licences for the manufacture of a generic version of Remdesivir, an antiviral drug being used to treat COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Compulsory licensing(CL): <\/strong>It is a process<strong> <\/strong>where a government allows someone else to produce the patented product or process without the consent of the patent owner.&nbsp;<ul><li>It is one of the flexibility on patent protection included in the WTO\u2019s agreement on intellectual property \u2013TRIPS&nbsp; Agreement.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Section 84 <\/strong>of the (Indian) Patent Act,1970 provides that any time after three years from date of sealing of a patent, application for compulsory license can be made,provided:<ul><li>the reasonable requirements of the public with respect to the patented invention have not been satisfied<\/li><li>the patented invention is not available to the public at a reasonably affordable price<\/li><li>patented invention has not worked in the territory of India.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Section 92<\/strong> of the (Indian) Patent Act,1970 provides that compulsory licenses can also be issued by the Government if there is either a &#8220;national emergency&#8221; or &#8220;extreme urgency&#8221; or in cases of &#8220;public non-commercial use&#8221;.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: CPI(Marxist) has said that the government should issue compulsory licences for the manufacture of a generic version of Remdesivir, an antiviral drug being used to treat COVID-19 patients. Facts: Compulsory licensing(CL): It is a process where a government allows someone else to produce the patented product or process without the consent of the patent&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/issue-compulsory-licences-for-manufacture-of-ramdesivir-cpim-tells-govt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Issue compulsory licences for manufacture of Ramdesivir, CPI(M) tells govt.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2964,2965],"class_list":["post-85583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-compulsory-licensing","tag-patents","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700777505,"cached_date":1704784301},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}