Relevant Aspects Of Intellectual Property Rights Chapter In The Trans-Pacific Partnership

The Trans-Pacific Partnership has an important impact on different business areas, including Intellectual Property , which is developed in Chapter 18 of the multilateral Treaty. Whereas this treaty has generated a great deal of expectation in Peru about intellectual property matters, especially in the patents matters , test data and its impact on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology products TTP. We focus on three important aspects of the TTP.

Regarding Patentable Matter

TTP mentioned in Article 18: 37.1 that "each party shall make the patents available for inventions claimed as at least one of the following: new uses of a known product, new methods of using a known product, or new methods of using a known product. A party may limit such new procedures to vindicate those who do not use the product as such. "