12-28-06

俄羅斯民航飛機迫降布拉格 (Russian Airliner Makes Forced Landing in Prague)

捷克警方說，俄羅斯航空公司的一架飛機在劫機未遂事件後緊急迫降布拉格。

警方發言人星期四說，劫機的企圖在飛機上被挫敗，所以警方沒有必要干預。

劫持發生時，這架A320型空中客車飛機正從莫斯科飛往日內瓦。

Czech police say a Russian airliner has made an emergency landing in Prague after an hijacking attempt.

A police spokesperson (Pavel Hantak) said Thursday that police did not have to intervene because the attempted assault was foiled on board the Aeroflot flight.

The Airbus A320 was flying from Moscow to Geneva when the attempted hijacking occurred.

中國法庭支援輝瑞公司偉哥專利 (Chinese Court Backs Pfizer Patent for Viagra)

中國國家媒體報導，美國輝瑞制藥公司在中國起訴兩家公司複製輝瑞受歡迎的治療男性陽萎的“偉哥”產品的案子中勝訴。

官方的新華社報導，北京一家法庭令聯環藥業公司和北京健康新概念制藥公司停止銷售類似“偉哥”的藥片。法庭還要求江蘇省的聯環藥業向輝瑞支付3萬8千多美元的賠償金。

輝瑞2005年向這兩家公司提出起訴。中國地方制藥公司已經加大了對專利的挑戰，希望獲准出售各種藥品的複製品。但是，包括輝瑞制藥在內的外國公司則多次呼籲中國加強對專利、版權和商標的保護。

Chinese state media say U.S. drug maker Pfizer has won a court case in China against two companies which were copying its immensely popular male impotency treatment, Viagra.

The official Xinhua news agency said that a Beijing court ordered Lianhuang Pharamceutical Company and Beijing Health New Concept Pharmacy to stop sales of pills similar to Viagra. The court also told Lianhuang Pharamceutical Company, based in Jiangsu province, to pay Pfizer more than 38-thousand dollars in compensation.

Pfizer sued the two companies in 2005. Local drug makers have stepped up patent challenges in hopes of being allowed to market generic copies of various drugs. But foreign companies including Pfizer have repeatedly called on China to tighten patent protections, copyrights and trademarks.