Vote Against GA resolution Foreign Patent Protection Act

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General Assembly Vote Recommendation

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Part of the Information for WA Voters program

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Ministry Review
The Foreign Patent Protection Act tries to fix the recently repealed Foreign Patent Act, attempting to address the issues raised in the repeal. However, the new resolution retains the same flaws for which we opposed the original and supported the repeal, namely the mandate for recognition of a WAPS-granted patent if a patent office exists in a member nation. It also continues to allow WA member nations to trade patent-infringing goods with non-members, giving a trade advantage to non-WA nations and member nations that don't recognize patents. This encourages member nations to scrap their patent system and ignore intellectual property rights.

For these reasons, the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs encourages a vote against this resolution.

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Sponsored by the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs of The North Pacific.

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