Minutes - TRIPS Council Special Session - View details of the intervention/statement

Ambassador D. Mwape (Zambia)
United States of America
B.ii Second sub-question
121. The representative of the United States said that his delegation agreed with the European Union that genericness was established in a case-by-case examination and would not have any extraterritorial effect in other countries. However, he also agreed with Canada's comments that the TN/C/W/52 proposal was lacking clarity. In their proposal the proponents needed to lay out specific legal requests. It was not appropriate for the Special Session to simply refer to a particular country's law for how the proposal would be implemented. His delegation was in agreement with the path ahead.
The Special Session took note of the statements made.
TN/IP/M/26