patent pools
Second round of public submissions to WHO Expert Working Group on R&D Financing
Submitted by thiru on 17. November 2009 - 3:42November 17, 2009
Speech of Mike Foster, UK Minister for International Development at launch of Industry Government Forum on Access to Medicines
Submitted by thiru on 21. October 2009 - 4:32On October 12, 2009, the "Industry Government Forum on Access to Medicines" (IGFAM) was launched. The UK Minister for International Development, MP Mike Foster made a a speech to launch this initiative which is reproduced below.
Presentations were also made by Pfizer (Ponni Subbiah), GSK (Abbas Hussain), Rajiv Venkayya (Gates Foundation), Prashant Yadav (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Suerie Moon (Research Fellow and Doctoral Candidate, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University).
Views on the IGWG
Written by James Love
Survey of Patent Pools Demonstrates Variety of Purposes and Management Structures
Tuesday, 05 June 2007
Table of Contents
An pdf version of this document is available here.
KEI Research Note 2007:6
David Serafino[1]
Knowledge Ecology International
4 June 2007
David Serafino[1]
Knowledge Ecology International
4 June 2007
Table of Contents
EMILA Working Plan
Saturday, 02 June 2007
The Essential Medical Inventions Licensing Agency
Working Plan, June 1, 2007
Introduction
IGWG Briefing Paper on Patent Pools
Sunday, 03 June 2007
IGWG Briefing Paper on Patent Pools
Collective Management of Intellectual Property -- The use of Patent Pools to expand access to essential medical technologies
KEI Research Note 2007:3 (1)
Submissions of Member States and Stakeholders to WHO Expert Working Group on R&D Financing
Submitted by thiru on 11. May 2009 - 7:22The contributions from WHO Member States and other Stakeholders to the Expert Working Group on R&D financing are now available on the WHO website.
The following extract is taken from the WHO public hearing website:
KEI reaction to GSK announcement on patent pool for neglected diseases
Submitted by James Love on 19. February 2009 - 9:10As an early proponent of the use of patent pools to expand access to medical technologies, our initial reaction to the GSK announcement is that GSK is responding to several new developments.
WIPO patent committee resumes work on a positive agenda (March 2009)
Submitted by thiru on 15. January 2009 - 7:58The 13th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) will take place from March 23, 2009 to March 27, 2009 in Geneva at WIPO headquarters. The WIPO Report on the International Patent System is the first substantive agenda item of the 13th session.
Propuesta: Pools de Patentes para el Cancer
Submitted by Judit Rius on 15. October 2007 - 19:32Boletín Fármacos has asked me to write a short summary of one of KEI’s projects. I chose to present a patent pool for medical technologies related to the prevention and treatment of cancer. Please find the article below. It is also available: http://www.boletinfarmacos.org/092007/ventana_abierta.asp
