"New Zealand largely banned patent protection for software two years ago ... However, leaked Trans Pacific Partnership documents now indicate the same government that passed that law, with cross-party support in a vote of 117 to 4, is prepared to reintroduce patents in return for better market access for dairy products."
".. data exclusivity is a kind of super-patent in that it can't be challenged or revoked: if a drug company has run clinical trials to establish the safety of its new drug, it has an absolute and irrevocable monopoly on the use of that data ...
Granting data exclusivity is thus nothing less than giving a monopoly on knowledge itself, since it forbids any other company from being able to use that newly-established scientific fact."
"New Zealand largely banned patent protection for software two years ago ... However, leaked Trans Pacific Partnership documents now indicate the same government that passed that law, with cross-party support in a vote of 117 to 4, is prepared to reintroduce patents in return for better market access for dairy products."
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150808/05331531886/why-t...
".. data exclusivity is a kind of super-patent in that it can't be challenged or revoked: if a drug company has run clinical trials to establish the safety of its new drug, it has an absolute and irrevocable monopoly on the use of that data ... Granting data exclusivity is thus nothing less than giving a monopoly on knowledge itself, since it forbids any other company from being able to use that newly-established scientific fact."