International Progress Compact
Category: Social Justice || Strength: MildOrigin: Imperium of Tinfect,Author: Tolarn Feren, Civil Oversight RepresentativeImperial Division of Foreign Policy and Diplomatic Action
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, rather than unduly restricting access and development so as to extort other States.
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