Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/419/REV.1 |
S-4§129 |
Bahrain, Kingdom of |
2021 |
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4.129. (...) Bahrain joined the International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution in 2017.
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WT/TPR/G/399/REV.1 |
G-2§72 |
Tajikistan |
2021 |
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2.72. In order to achieve the country's strategic goal of ensuring energy independence and energy saving, the Government has made effective reforms to strengthen institutions within the energy sector, in particular through the restructuring OJSH "Barqi Tojik", the introduction of billing systems, the construction of new infrastructure, the reconstruction of existing infrastructure and the provision of financial reports in accordance with international financial reporting standards and energy saving.
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WT/TPR/S/399/REV.1 |
S-4§30 |
Tajikistan |
2021 |
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4.30. The electricity subsector comprises the vertically integrated SOE Barqi Tojik (BT), the Sangtuda-1 and Sangtuda-2 hydropower plants, (...) Since December 2002, the Pamir Energy Company generates and distributes electricity in GBAO under a 25-year concession. It operates 11 hydropower plants with a combined capacity of 44.16 MW and a distribution grid of 2,609 km. (...).
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Secretariat TPR |
WT/TPR/S/399/REV.1 |
S-4§64 |
Tajikistan |
2021 |
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4.64. The SOE Rohi Ohani Tojikiston (Tajik Railways) has a statutory monopoly over all rail transport services and infrastructure. In September 2019, it had 54 internal combustion locomotives, and 2,068 freight and 424 passenger wagons. It has been implementing a Rolling Stock Renewal Programme in several stages, to renovate its ageing fleet and improve energy efficiency. (...).
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WT/TPR/S/308 |
S-Table-III.11 |
Barbados |
2014 |
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Table 3.11 Overview of IPR protection, 2014
Patents
- Area/law: Patents Act 2001, No. 18; Patents Regulations, 1984- S.I. 1984 No. 84
- Coverage: An invention that is novel, involves an inventive step, and is industrially applicable.
Rights of plant breeders and developers of new plant varieties specifically protected.
- Duration: 20 years from the filing date accorded to the applicant.
- Exclusions and limitations: Inventions involving, discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods, diagnostic methods, methods for treatment of human beings and animals by surgery or therapy, plant and animal varieties and biological processes for the production of plants other than microbiological processes, and the products of those processes and inventions, the commercial exploitation of which would be contrary to public order or morality or which is prejudicial to human or animal health or to plant life or to the environment.
Compulsory licences can be issued, subject to reasonable payment. if exploitation by the patent owner is found to be anti-competitive.
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WT/TPR/S/302/REV.1 |
S-III§203 |
Chinese Taipei |
2014 |
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In addition, TIPO (The MOEA - Ministry of Economic Affairs' Intellectual Property Office) adopted an Accelerated Examination Programme (AEP) under which applicants may request an accelerated procedure provided that one of the following conditions is met: (i) the application's foreign counterpart has been granted under substantive examination by a foreign patent office; (ii) while the patent has not been granted, the application's foreign counterpart has received an OA (office action) from the EPO, JPO or USPTO during the substantive examination; and (iii) the application is essential to the commercial exploitation of the invention. In January 2014, another condition was added: the technical field involves energy conservation, new energy or new energy vehicles or the invention involves carbon emission reduction or saves natural resources. The purpose is to support investment in R&D and development of green technology. In total, more than 5,000 requests for the AEP were received from 2009 to 2013, with an average pendency to obtain a final decision of 141 days.
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Energy
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WT/TPR/S/292/REV.2 |
S-III§126 |
Malaysia |
2014 |
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Under the Protection of New Plant Variety (PNPV) Act 2004 (effective and unchanged since 20 October 2008) and the Protection of New Plant Varieties Regulations 2008, IPR protection of new plant varieties is granted via a registration approval, based on the validation of plant characteristics that distinguish it from other varieties. For a plant variety that is new, distinct, uniform, and stable, the term of protection is 20 years or 25 years (for trees and vines/perennial plant) from the filing date of the application. For a plant variety that is bred or discovered and developed by a local community or indigenous people, protection of 15 years from the date of application may be granted if it is new, distinct, and identifiable. (…)
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WT/TPR/S/300/REV.1 |
S-III§199 |
China |
2014 |
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The Conference annually issues a Promotion Plan for the Implementation of the National Intellectual Property Strategy, with specific actions to be carried out during the year in question to attain the goals of the strategy. In 2013, the strategic themes/actions identified were grouped under eight main goals:
b. strengthening IP in key industries. This is to be done by: promoting the integration of IPR protection with industrial policy; developing and implementing a strategic industries IP work plan to take into account the IPR protection needs of these industries; promoting the development of green technologies and green patent applications by granting them a priority review process; developing an "industry IP risk assessment and early warning system" with respect to selected industrial transformation processes;
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WT/TPR/S/300/REV.1 |
S-III§211 |
China |
2014 |
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(…) The purpose of issuing the Administrative Measures on Prioritized Examination of Invention Patent Applications, which were implemented as from 1 August 2012, is to establish a fast track for patent examination and approval in the case of patent applications linked to strategic emerging industries and to green technologies with significant economic and social impact and a high degree of invention. (…)
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WT/TPR/S/363 |
S-Table-A3.7 |
Bolivia, Plurinational State of |
2017 |
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Table A3. 7 Protection of intellectual property rights
Scope Term Exceptions
Patents
New inventions involving an inventive step and capable of industrial application 20 years from the filing date of the application The following are not patentable:
(a) inventions contrary to public order;
(b) inventions that can harm health, human, animal or plant life, and the environment;
(c) plants, animals and essentially biological processes for the production of plants and animals, other than non-biological or microbiological processes; and
(d) therapeutic or surgical methods for the treatment of humans or animals, as well as diagnostic methods applied to human beings or animals.
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