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Category: Free Trade
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Wallenberg
Onsite Topic
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Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Wallenberg
Onsite Topic
Recognizing the need for international standards on intellectual property, particularly with regard to patents,
Aware of concerns that previous patent law has failed to properly address this difficult topic,
Believing that this Assembly should not punish member states on the basis of their economic ideologies,
Revering the principles of national sovereignty, and the right of nations to their own economic philosophies and ideologies,
The World Assembly hereby:
Defines, for the purpose of this resolution:
"patent" as an official government statement granting an entity the legal right to exclude others from producing or generating profit with a particular invention,
"invention" as a process, good, device, or technology created by an entity,
Forbids member nations from granting or recognizing patents for illegal inventions, or for any form of sapient life, as it is not very nice to treat people as property,
Prohibits member states and inhabitants of member states from importing from or exporting to other member states goods produced in violation of any rights granted by a WAPS patent,
Restores the powers and duties of the World Assembly Patent Service (WAPS), among these being:
To consider claims by entities originating from one or more member states, and to grant patents accordingly,
To archive all patents granted by member states or itself, and to make the WAPS archives public to all member states and their citizens for future reference, or to get lost in aisle after aisle of paperwork,
To evaluate the unique characteristics of member states' economies, demographics, and societies in order to determine and set unbiased and appropriate expiration dates in each member nation on a case-by-case basis for patents granted by the WAPS, and
To hear challenges made by other entities in member states to patents issued by the WAPS, and to investigate and rule on them accordingly,
Specifies that the WAPS may only grant patents to entities from member states if:
The entity holds a valid patent granted by the member nation it originates from for the same invention the entity seeks to patent via the WAPS,
The WAPS has not already granted a patent on the invention the entity seeks to claim as its intellectual property,
The entity demonstrates full responsibility for the development of the invention, an inventive step in developing it beyond merely observing or analyzing an already existing invention, and reasonable novelty and uniqueness of the invention in the member nation from which the entity originates, and
The request meets any other basic formatting standards set by the WAPS in order to guarantee the legitimacy of the entity's patent request,
Mandates that all patent offices in member nations observe each patent granted by the WAPS as if it were its own, given that:
The patented invention is neither illegal, nor obsolete, nor in the public domain in that member nation at the time the inventive entity receives the patent,
The patented invention is of practical, commercial, or industrial use in that nation,
The patent holder has demonstrated intent to exercise its patent in that nation, and
Previously passed World Assembly resolutions do not permit that member nation not to recognize the patent.
Voting Instructions:
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- Vote Abstain if you want the Delegate to abstain from voting on this resolution.
- Vote Present if you are personally abstaining from this vote.
Detailed opinions with your vote are appreciated and encouraged!
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