PILMA IS A COALITION OF COMPANIES AND LABOR ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY WHO HAVE JOINED FORCES TO GROW THIS IMPORTANT SECTOR IN OUR ECONOMY, CREATE HIGH-QUALITY JOBS, AND PROMOTE MEDICAL INNOVATION TO CURE DISEASE.
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PILMA Vows to ‘Redouble’ Support
for Increased Protections Against Intellectual Property Theft
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Labor and management in the biopharmaceutical industry will “redouble efforts at the federal level to support increased protections to fight intellectual property theft, counterfeiting and piracy, along with real enforcement measures to implement those protections.”
In a resolution unanimously adopted by the trustees of the Pharmaceutical Industry Labor-Management Association (PILMA), the group applauds the ongoing efforts by labor and industry to erect strong intellectual property protections and to enforce those standards vigorously. The resolution points out that the pharmaceutical sector is “one of the few manufacturing industries that still maintains a significant employment footprint domestically, supporting more than 3.2 million American jobs.”
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America Invents Act Will Spur New Cures
The Pharmaceutical Industry Labor Management Association (PILMA) applauds the passage of the America Invents Act and encourages President Barack Obama to sign the bill into law.
In a demonstration that Republicans and Democrats can come together in the name of jobs, the Senate voted 89 to 9 on September 8th in favor of a historic overhaul of our nation’s patent system. For industries such as the life science sector, which supports over 9 million jobs in the U.S., innovation is the key to staying globally competitive. This bill will help protect American pharmaceutical patents, spurring research to discover additional life saving cures and putting union members to work.
The member companies and unions of PILMA see this as an important step in the broader effort to strengthen intellectual property protections. We are committed to working with our allies in Congress from both sides of the aisle to continue moving this agenda forward.