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WTO Delays Ruling in High-Stakes Tobacco Packaging Battle

2016/12/08

The World Trade Organization will not issue a ruling on whether Australia's "plain packaging" tobacco law usurps foreign companies'intellectual property rights until May, according to WTO documents , delaying a decision that was slated to arrive by the end of 2016.
A single WTO panel is weighing cases launched by the governments of Indonesia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Honduras asserting that Australian laws that ban all distinct branding from cigarette packages in favor of graphic warnings about the danger of the products. The case has teed up a high-stakes fight over the intersection of intellectual property rights and public health safeguards.
There is no precedent for such a law being challenged in Geneva, and the panel apparently needs more time to parse through the various legal issues at play.

Source: LAW360




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