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Generic Drug Production to be Impacted by UK-India FTA? 

IPilogue

In January 2022 , India and the UK began negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA), aiming to double bilateral trade to $100 billion by 2030 via reduction or elimination of import-export tariffs between the two countries. In fact, many studies suggest that brand name medications are not superior to generic medications.

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Monday Miscellany

The IPKat

CIPLITEC | Center for Intellectual Property Law, Information and Technology Copyright 2030 – “ The Future of the Creative Ecosystem in Europe ” (9 December 2021) CIPLITEC's interdisciplinary group of leading academics is organizing an online event on 9 December 2021 from 17:30 to 19:30 (CET). The role is based in London (West End).

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Are we (virtually) there yet? Waiting for the rise of the metaverse from a brand owner’s perspective

LexBlog IP

Brand owners know that their best defence is to be ahead of market trends in terms of their brand and trade mark protection. According to a recent McKinsey report , the metaverse could represent $5 trillion in value by 2030, and brands are clamouring to make sure they are well-positioned to cash in on their slice of the pie.

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World IP Day – Celebrating Innovation and Creativity to Build Our Common Future

IP Intelligence

1] As a brief history lesson, in 2015, all United Nations Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which “provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.” [2] 3] It is not difficult to tie the SDGs to IP.

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Fashion And Environment: Navigating The Way To Sustainability

IP and Legal Filings

In 2017, luxury brand Burberry even burned $37 million worth of unsold items [6]. The horrific case of collapse of Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh where clothes for big brands like Primark were made, where about 2000 were killed and 2000 injured, is a classic example of how poor the conditions of workmen in these countries can be.

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SDG Content Hub Magic Number Is 17

Velocity of Content

The compact commits publishers to accelerate progress to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Springer Nature is among many publishers around the globe who are signatories of the SDG Publishers Compact, which launched in 2020 in collaboration with the International Publishers Association.

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Book Review: The Elgar Companion to Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals

The IPKat

Nearly a decade after the establishment of the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) in Agenda 2030, this volume brings together 25 excellent contributions to reflect on the role of intellectual property in the progress of the SDGs. Ncube and Matthew Rimmer. That's not a Kat. but it does care about the environment!