IGC Statement by KEI at 2025 WIPO GA Reflecting on the fact that the 2024 Diplomatic Conference on the treaty to disclose genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge came after more than two decades and more than 50 meetings of… Continue Reading
On Thursday afternoon, 10 July 2025, Knowledge Ecology Interational (KEI) delivered the following statement on agenda item 12(ii), Report from the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP). KEI statement on the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents… Continue Reading
On Thursday afternoon, 10 July 2025, Knowledge Ecology Interational (KEI) delivered the following statement on agenda item 12(i), Report from the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR). Broadcasters could have had an agreement two decades ago if they… Continue Reading
On Wednesday afternoon, 9 July 2025, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered the following general statement on model laws at the Sixty-Sixth Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). While 2024… Continue Reading
KEI has filed two comments with USTR in its “Request for Comments Regarding Foreign Nations Freeloading on American-Financed Innovation,” (90 FR 23105). This comment summarized some of KEI’s past comments on the trade related aspects of biomedical R&D and public… Continue Reading
On Tuesday afternoon, 24 June 2025, the Core Group (Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand) convened an informal consultation to consider the revised version draft resolution, “Access to medicines, vaccines and other health products in the… Continue Reading
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) convened the 39th session of its Program and Budget Committee (PBC) from 16 June 2025 to 20 June 2025. With respect to WIPO’s proposed Program and Budget for 2026/2027, the PBC passed the following… Continue Reading
CR-prize-study-tor-2024 At the end of 2024, Congress was poised to enact a 1547 page appropriations bill with bipartisan support. Elon Musk blew up the bill, mounting an attack on the bill through X, the social media platform he controls. The… Continue Reading
On 18 March 2025, the World Trade Organization (WTO) published a communication (IP/C/W/719) by Brazil, India, and Peru entitled, “Revising discussions on the relationship between the TRIPS Agreement and Convention on Biological Diversity“. Brazil, India, and Peru have called for… Continue Reading
On Friday, 13 June 2025, a bloc of countries known as the the Core Group (Brazil, China, Egypt, Indonesia, India, Senegal, South Africa and Thailand) circulated a draft resolution on “Access to medicines, vaccines and other health products in the… Continue Reading