SCP Electronic Forum: Comments and Documents (SCP/32)

Statements submitted by SCP/32 participants

General Opening Statements

• Germany (on behalf of the EU and its Member States )
• Canada
• Chile (in Spanish )
• EPI

Report on the international patent system: Certain aspects of national/regional patent laws (agenda item 4)

• Germany (on behalf of the EU and its Member States )
• Australia
• Canada
• Japan
• Mexico (in Spanish 1, 2)

Exceptions and limitations to patent rights (agenda item 5)

• Australia
• Japan
• KEI

Quality of patents, including opposition systems (agenda item 6)

• Czech Republic
• France
• Germany
• Japan
• Portugal
• Russian Federation (in Russian)
• Spain (in Spanish )
• United States of America
• ICC

Patents and Health (agenda item 7)

• Republic of Belarus (on behalf of CACEEC, in Russian)
• Canada
• Holy See
• ELAPI (in Spanish)
• IFPMA
• JPAA
• KEI
• MPP
• MSF

Confidentiality of communications between clients and their patent advisors (agenda item 8)

• Australia
• Canada
• Japan
• ICC
• JPAA

Transfer of technology (agenda item 9)

• Zimbabwe (on behalf of the African Group)
• Canada
• Chile (in Spanish)
• Czech Republic
• France (in French1, 2)
• Japan
• United States of America
• ELAPI (in Spanish )

Closing of the session (agenda item 12)

• Zimbabwe (on behalf of the African Group)

Comments received from members and observers of the SCP prior to SCP/32

• Algeria (in French )
• Argentina (in Spanish )
• Australia 1, 2
• Brazil
• Chad (in French )
• Costa Rica (in Spanish )
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO) 
• Ecuador (in Spanish )
• France (in French )
• Germany 
• Guatemala (in Spanish )
• Israel 1, 2, 3
• Japan 1, 2, 3
• Kazakhstan
• Nigeria
• Norway
• Philippines 1, 2
• Poland
• Portugal
• Singapore
• Slovakia
• Spain (in Spanish )
• Thailand 1, 2
• United Kingdom
• Zimbabwe