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Pacific trading partners stuck on medicine monopoly periods
Published Thu, Jul 30, 2015 · 09:50 PM
LAHAINA, Hawaii
PACIFIC trading partners are deadlocked over intellectual property protections, including monopoly periods for next-generation drugs, Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari said on Wednesday.
Mr Amari said he saw no sign of the United States backing down on a demand to protect for 12 years data used to develop biologic drugs, which are made from living cells.
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