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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9591

31 January 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 15 / 28
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade
European Commission threatens to go to WTO over Taiwan's compact disc practices

Brussels, 30/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 30 January the European Commission threatened to go to the WTO against Taiwan over compulsory licensing practices, which enables the national Gigastorage company to make recordable compact discs (CDR) by using technology developed by the Dutch electronics specialist company Philips. A report by DG Trade services based on a complaint lodged by Philips on 15 January 2007, concluded that Taiwan's patent rights and certain decisions taken by...

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