On January 15, 2010 the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the World Trade Organization and other economic organizations in Geneva submitted a proposal to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The Brazilian note verbale to WIPO notes that the proposal:

"aims at contributing to the discussion of exceptions and limitations to patent rights. . . While not purporting to cover all interfaces of the matter with development concerns, it emphasizes the importance of promoting a wide and sustained debate on the issue in the SCP".

The 14th session of the the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) which is meeting in Geneva from January 25-January 29, 2010 will consider "Exclusions from Patentable Subject Matter and Exceptions and Limitations to the Rights". The Brazilian submission (SCP/14/7, January 20, 2010) would beef up the WIPO patent committee’s work on limitations and exceptions as it proposes a "work program be established in the SCP to carry out a wide and sustained debate on this issue in three phases".

Read the proposal here-

Source: KEI Online-