September 30, 2009.

USPTO FOIA Officer
United States Patent and Trademark Office
PO Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
efoia@uspto.gov

Dear FOIA Officer:

Knowledge Ecology International is a non-profit organization that follows global negotiations on intellectual property rights. We are very much involved in research and advocacy in the rights to persons with reading disabilities, a topic that we have written about on several occasions, and for which we have prepared comments to the USPTO and the Copyright Office in public consultations.

KEI requests all documents that have been prepared or received by the USPTO on the topic of a proposal for a WIPO treaty dealing with reading disabilities. This would include but not be limited to position papers, analysis, and communications with members of congress, private sector publishers or their representatives, delegates and staff of WIPO, and communications with other federal agencies.

KEI also requests that same documents that relate to the so called WIPO "Stakeholders Platform," which was organized in 2008.

Among the communications likely to be of interest are those involving:

• Tarja Koskinen-Olsson or anyone from the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations' (IFRRO),
• Jens Bammel of the International Publishers Association
• Ted Shapiro
• Bradley Silver, of Time Warner

Any instructions given to geneva representatives to brief WIPO delegates

KEI requests a waiver for fees for this FOIA request.

Sincerely,

James Love

On October 15, 2009, USPTO rejected our request for a few waiver. We will appeal this issue.

USPTO FOIA Officer
United States Patent and Trademark Office
PO Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
Via e-mail: efoia@uspto.gov

October 2, 2009

Dear FOIA Officer:

Under the Freedom of Information Act, KEI requests for the following information:

1. In relation to a meeting entitled “Intellectual Property and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical
Industry” that the USPTO, in collaboration with Pfizer Limited, conducted in Mumbai, India on
September 9, 2009:

(a) The agenda and list of participants.
(b) Any reports or minutes of the meeting.
(c) All communications related to the meeting; and documents prepared or received by the
USPTO related to the meeting, including but not limited to communications with other
federal agencies including the White House, foreign governments, members of Congress or
their staff, Pfizer or its representatives, trade associations, academic experts, law firms,
members of the press or anyone else who was involved in any way with the decision to hold
the meeting, or participated in any way with the planning, execution or follow-up of the
meeting.
(d) The budget for the event, and information about who paid for the event.
(e) Contracts with any third parties who provided any support, services or goods for the
meeting, which the exception of contracts for food, lodging or meeting facilitates.

2. A list of any past of future events that the USPTO has or expects to organize with Pfizer.
You may contact me directly at (202) 332 2670 or by electronic mail at malini.aisola@keionline.org to
discuss this further.

KEI is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt, nonprofit organization non governmental organization that searches
for better outcomes, including new solutions, to the management of knowledge resources, as is
described at http://www.keionline.org. KEI has no commercial interest in the records being sought, but
seeks access to them only to educate the public on critical issues relating to the activities of the federal
government.

KEI requests a waiver of search and duplication fees.

I look forward to receiving your response

Yours sincerely,
Malini Aisola