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Congress tries to get Israel off of US intellectual property blacklist (Jerusalem Post)

By Robin Gross

"The USTR said Israel is judged by different standards than others in its watch list tier which don't have as advanced economies. "Our expectations of those countries may not be as high as they are for Israel," said an official in the USTR, speaking on background. "We look at Israel relative to its very high level of development." Despite the legal improvements, he pointed to Israel's policies as the root of the issue. "The bottom line is that we're concerned that under current Israeli law and practices, a company that conducts testing for pharmaceutical products gets less than five years of effective protection," he said, referring to complicated formulas that can reduce the patent protection timeline...."

Full post as published by IP Justice on May 31, 2008 (boomark / email).