...World Trade Organization, reprinted in HR Doc. 316, 103d Cong., 2d Sess. 1621, 1633 (Sept. 27, 1994) ("patents shall be available and patent rights enjoyable...without discrimination as to the place of invention"). See North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act. Pub. L. No. 103-182, Title III, Subtitle...

...owner, taking into account the legitimate interests of other persons. 7. Subject to paragraphs 2 and 3, patents shall be available and patent rights enjoyable without discrimination as to the field of technology, the territory of the Party where the invention was made and whether products are...

...owner, taking into account the legitimate interests of other persons. 7. Subject to paragraphs 2 and 3, patents shall be available and patent rights enjoyable without discrimination as to the field of technology, the territory of the Party where the invention was made and whether products are...

...over the draft Uruguay Round text, which only provides pipeline pro18. The NAFTA text established that "patents shall be available and patent rights enjoyable without discrimination as to ... whether products are imported or locally produced" (North American Free Trade Agreement, text prepared...

...selling, or importing the product obtained directly by using that process. According to the agreement "...patents shall be available and patent rights enjoyable...whether products are imported or locally produced." This last provision would require that importation satisfy local "working" requirements for patents,...

...intellectual property chapter that have been cited in this regard. This language, in essence, says that patents shall be available and patent rights enjoyable,...whether products are imported or locally produced. Having been a participant in the GATT TRIPS negotiations, I think I could make a few comments about...

...protect patents for at least 20 years from the filing of a patent application, and to make "patents available and patent rights enjoyable without discrimination...whether products are imported or locally produced." Members will thus have to recognize the importation of patented products as satisfying local working...

...protect patents for at least 20 years from the filing of a patent application, and to make 'patents available and patent rights enjoyable without discrimination...whether products are imported or locally produced.' Members will thus have to recognize the importation of patented products as satisfying local working...

...Uruguay Round GATT Agreement. Article 1709 of NAFTA contains a provision stating, in part, that ". . . patents shall be available and patent rights enjoyable without discrimination as to the field of technology " HR 760 can DC viewed as discriminating as to fields of technology, because it...

...capable of industrial application.' Subject to paragraph 4 of Article 65, paragraph 8 of Article 70 and paragraph 3 of this Article, patents shall be...of technology and whether products are imported or locaiA produced. 2. Members may exclude from patentability inventions, the prevention within their...