Repeal "UN Patent Law"
| #205: Repeal "UN Patent Law"
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| Category: | Repeal |
| Proposed By: | Kelssek |
| Free Trade: | #156 |
| Status: | Passed |
| Adopted: | Fri Mar 30 2007 |
| Votes For: | 6,336 |
| Votes Against: | 4,660 |
Less than a year after the adoption of the UN Patent Law, Kelssek submitted a repeal to the popular resolution which reached the UN floor. This repeal represents the second time a proposal submitted by Kelssek to achieve quorum. The repeal resulted in a significant debate in the UN forum, despite a modest vote turnout. Debate in the United Nations was largely split along economic ideological lines, with capitalist nations strongly opposing the repeal and socialist nations arguing in favor of the repeal. The primary argument in favor of the resolution was based on patents on drugs.
Contents
Resolution history
Draft proposal
Telegram campaign
UN floor debate
Resolution text
RECOGNISING the desirability of harmonising international patent regulations; however,
CONVINCED that the harm of a patent should not be greater than the corresponding public benefit; and,
CONCERNED by the failure of the UN Patent Law to provide exceptions for vitally important items, such as lifesaving medicines, which has caused lives to be lost due to the unaffordability of patented medicines and the constraining of UN member nations from independently carrying out the production of such medicines; and,
BELIEVING that the international patent system contains inherent flaws, that it poses impediments to the welfare of the people of the world and to economic efficiency, that other incentive systems besides monopoly profits are possible, and hence that it should not be uncompromisingly enforced upon the world;
NOW THEREFORE, the United Nations, in council assembled,
ABOLISHES the United Nations Patent Registry; and,
REPEALS Resolution 156, "UN Patent Law".
- Votes For: 6,336
- Votes Against: 4,660
- Implemented: Fri Mar 30 2007
Gameplay impacts
This repeal had no significant impacts on the way NationStates was played. Though the resolution had no gameplay impacts, players did confirm that the repeal of a Free Trade resolution had the expected result of slightly decreasing nations' economic status.[1]
