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Official executive summary of the report of the WHO Expert Working Group on Research and Development Financing
Submitted by thiru on 23. December 2009 - 13:5423 December 2009
The Official Executive Summary and Recommendations of the Report of the Expert Working Group on Research and Development Financing to the Executive Board has been published on the website of the WHO Executive Board as document EB126/6 Add.1. It has a provisional agenda item number of 4.3. The official WHO link to this Executive Summary is: http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB126/B126_6Add1-en.pdf
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:
Notes from Day one of WIPO SCP 13
Submitted by James Love on 24. March 2009 - 1:50WIPO’s five day 13th meeting of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) began on Monday, and will go through Friday. The agenda is quite full, as the SCP will consider four important reports written by the Secretariat.
SCP/13/2: Standards and Patents
SCP/13/3: Exclusions from Patentable Subject Matter and Exceptions and Limitations to the Rights
SCP/13/4: The Client-Attorney Privilege
SCP/13/5: Dissemination of Patent Information
WIPO SCP 13, slides from KEI Side event on Patents and Standards
Submitted by James Love on 23. March 2009 - 9:11On March 23, 2009, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) organized a Briefing on Patents and Standards at WIPO’s 13th meeting of the Standing Committee on Patents (SCP). The meeting features presentations from Dr. Baisheng An, a Research Fellow at the South Centre, George Greve, President of Free Software Foundation Europoe (FSFE), Ahmed Abedel Latif, of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), and James Love, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI).
