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[GA - in queue] International Progress Compact

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International Progress Compact
Category: Social Justice | Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Second Sovereignty | Onsite Topic​

The World Assembly;

Recognizing the immense technological ingenuity of the various peoples of the Member-States,

Acknowledging the vast gulfs in economic structure between Member-States,

Deeply concerned by practices which restrict access to technological and medical innovations to wealthier Member-States,

And seeking to protect international technological and medical advancement from prohibitive and harmful restrictions,

Hereby;

Defines a Patent as a form of legal intellectual property in which the holder of a Patent is granted exclusive rights regarding an invention for a period of time, limited or unlimited, typically in exchange for disclosing details and specifications of said invention,

Reserves to individual Member-States the exclusive right to determine the legal status or recognition of patents, excepting where otherwise established by prior legislation, or wherein non-World-Assembly treaties oblige a certain policy,

Non-Bindingly Pressures Member-States to make decisions that will expand access to technologies and assist in the development of new technologies.
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Against. I respect the author's right to hold a hostile attitude towards patents but I am opposed to that stance, as previously reiterated both here and on gameside.
 
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(Non-WA) This is a blocker which does not establish any actual policy. As such, I have no actual opinion on it, so I vote to abstain.
 
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