§ 41. Mrs. Jill Knightasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will consider lengthening the patent life of new medicines commencing from the time their product licence is issued.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerI shall be considering whether the patent term for medicines should be extended in the light of the submissions received in response to the Green Paper—"Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation" (Cmnd. 9117).