The Constitutional Court of Kenya has blocked the government from implementing that country's Anti-Counterfeiting Act as it applies to generic medicines. The law has been challenged as unconstitutional on the grounds that it endangers lives by arbitrarily denying access to affordable generic medications.
Kenya Constitutional Court Blocks Anti-Counterfeiting Law
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A good point made by the criticism of the anti-counterfeiting act in Kenya was that it conflated the quality-control aspects of anti-counterfeiting laws with copyright/patent/trademark issues. Most rhetoric I’ve seen connected with ACTA makes the same mistake, whether deliberately or not.