Activities of Adam GIEREK related to 2014/2228(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (A8-0175/2015 - Bernd Lange) PL
Amendments (3)
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Points out that the different intellectual property registration practices used by the patent offices in the EU and those in the US, which grant, in the area of biotechnology, the right to patent protection for genetic manipulation processes and the recognition of computer programs as technological processes, may create significant barriers in the licensing trade;
Amendment 198 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission, with a view to preventing the wholesale relocation of EU manufacturing sectors and mass job losses in the Member States, to conduct a comparative analysis of the competitiveness of EU manufacturing sectors and their counterparts in the United States;
Amendment 212 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Draws attention to the differences in the way in which intellectual property rights, in particular patent rights, are applied in practice, and to the fact that this could give rise to large numbers of legal disputes, thus hampering the development of SMEs.