71.   GlaxoSmithKline officials in London and Abidjan did not return calls Monday for comment on the patent rights issue.

72.   Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs, active in the African AIDS fight, agreed it was important to respect patent rights while solving the crisis.

73.   He also said patent rights involving the cell lines are unsettled.

74.   He said the government recently signed the Trade Related Intellectual Property Agreement, the treaty administered by the World Trade Organization which governs international patent rights.

75.   His discussion paper is aimed as assessing the level of interest in industry for legislation extending patent rights right across the EU.

76.   In fact, the parliament in Kenya unanimously passed a law that would allow the government to suspend patent rights in times of emergency.

77.   Kenyan trials of the vaccine started several months later than expected, partly because of wrangling over ownership and patent rights.

78.   Mark Hayward, a lawyer who represents AIDS activists, said the pharmaceutical industry had unfairly assumed the law would be interpreted to destroy their patent rights.

79.   One was the crucial issue of whether poor countries can violate patent rights on Western medicines to protect public health.

80.   Rallis will retain the marketing rights of the new products in India, while the overseas patent rights will go to Phytopharm U.K.