Several powerful food industry trade associations are actively campaigning to write amendments in the law that would prevent states from instituting more stringent restrictions.
It is also seen above that even while the appellant's application for grant of patent lay in the "mailbox" awaiting amendments in the law of patent in India, the appellant was granted Exclusive Marketing Rights on November 10,2003, following which Gleevec was marketed in India as well.
In February 2013, Amazon's global vice president, Paul Misener, had also met with an Indian trade minister, seeking amendments in the laws restricting e-commerce.
A constitutional amendment, change in the law, or appeal to a higher court are all valid and effective options for influencing the outcome of future decisions.
But here is a revolutionary, or maybe counterrevolutionary, way to make one need meet the other: make some slight amendments in the basic laws of this great country and have the government start issuing titles of nobility.
Despite amendments to the law in India in 2013, a man who rapes his wife will not face prosecution if she is over 15. "The global trend is there has been some progress, which is good, but it is often two steps forward, one back," said Jacqui Hunt, London director of Equality Now.
For example, amendments in the unemployment benefit law of Slovenia in the late 1990s required that benefit recipients make themselves available for contacts by employment offices for three hours per day, but results showed little effect on disqualification (Vodopivec,2004).
"Neither the Pakistan Peoples Party nor the government has discussed the issue to bring any amendment in the blasphemy law," Mr. Bokhari said Thursday at a news briefing.
DNA proposed amendments to the law in April, but so far it remains unchanged, and savvy criminals are making the most of the opportunity to reduce their time behind bars.
Council member Vincent B. Orange (D-At Large) said he would propose amendments to the law in coming weeks to make clear what constitutes someone's home and private residence for marijuana use and growth, including allowing growing and smoking in greenhouses and garages.
Amendments to the law in 1987 designated Yucca Mountain as the only potential site to be studied.
