IP Watch on January 25 published GlaxoSmithKline’s position statement on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.  The company generally supports the agreement, as it “fully supports any efforts aimed at ensuring strong enforcement of IPRs.”  GSK would have preferred to have seen the inclusion of patents in the civil enforcement, but it has “no objection to the omission of criminal sanctions for patent infringers” and “no objection to the exclusion of in-transit patent provisions.”

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