AIPLA and PhRMA Comments on Draft Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Relating to Civil or Commercial Matters​ Currently Being Negotiated at The Hague Conference on Private International Law

July 19, 2017

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We question whether the Draft Convention adequately takes into account the particular territorial nature of patent rights and whether it sufficiently respects the established international framework within which patent law functions. 

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