Suiza

Granada

Patentes (incluida la protección de variedades vegetales)

3. Does your law make compulsory licenses subject to all the conditions enumerated in Article 31 of the TRIPS Agreement? Please cite the relevant provisions of law.

The draft Industrial Property Bill 2002 which had been prepared with the assistance of WIPO was notified to the WTO as IP/N/1/GRD/I/3 on 13 June 2002, contained provisions on compulsory licenses. This draft did not pass into law. The present draft Patents Act (due to be tabled in 2010) contains provision on compulsory licenses in Section 13 (Part II of the said Act).