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+=T-Waiver= |
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+===T Waiver=== |
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+====Affirmatives must defend the reduction of intellectual property protections for medicine.==== |
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+====Medicine treats disease **Merriam-Webster n.d.====** |
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+~~https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medicine~~ |
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+Medicine definition is - a substance or preparation used in treating disease |
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+====They don’t==== |
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+====A WTO waiver covers non-medicine tech==== |
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+**Braman 9/14** ~~Nancy Braman is a registered U.S. patent attorney. She has been contributing to IPWatchdog since 2019. 9/14/21, "Iancu, Kilbride, Israel Separate Fact from Fiction During IPWatchdog LIVE Panel on TRIPS IP Waiver," IP Watchdog, https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/09/14/iancu-kilbride-israel-separate-fact-fiction-ipwatchdog-live-panel-trips-ip-waiver/id=137589//lhs-ap~~ |
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+Andrei Iancu, partner at Irell and Manella and former Director of the United States |
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+disagree, and thus the revised proposal effectively would make the waiver permanent. |
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+====Drop them for extra-topicality – a waiver justifies fiat abuse allowing affs to generate offense off of non-topical positions==== |
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+====Vote neg:==== |
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+====1 – Semantics – controls the internal link to any pragmatic offense and determines what we research in the first place – without grounding in the topic there’s no way to debate the aff – independent voter for jurisdiction since judges can’t vote on an aff not defending the rez.==== |
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+====2 – Ground – The aff’s interp destroys neg ground by forcing the neg to defend fringe patents on software unrelated to the core of the topic; kills pre-round prep and research ==== |