Introduction In January 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) introduced a new NIH Intramural Research Program Access Planning Policy (“IRP Access Planning Policy” or “Policy”). An NIH web page provides links to several documents describing the policy: https://osp.od.nih.gov/policies/innovation-and-translation#tab1/ The… Continue Reading
Knowledge Ecology International sent a January 13, 2025 letter to the delegates of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) opposing the convening of a diplomatic Conference for a WIPO Treaty for the… Continue Reading
On December 17, 2025, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) provided comments to the National Institutes for Health (NIH) regarding the “Prospective Grant of an Exclusive Patent License: Vaccine Augmented Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes for the Treatment of Cancer” (89 FR 95224) to… Continue Reading
Friday 20 December 2024 10:00am-11:00am ET // 16:00-17:00 CET Knowledge Ecology International will host a discussion regarding a proposal for a World Trade Agreement on the supply of public goods. The purpose of the proposal is to expand the supply… Continue Reading
On December 5, 2024, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) submitted comments to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the “Prospective Grant of Exclusive License, Inter-Institutional Agreement-Institution Lead: Peptides and Peptide Microarrays for Detection and Differentiation of Antibody Responses to Ebola… Continue Reading
On Wednesday, 4 December 2024, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered this statement on Article 6 – Administration of [rights/interests] at the 49th session of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and… Continue Reading
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KEI closing statement at INB 12 Geneva Friday, 15 November 2024 We welcome the decision to provide daily access to the negotiating texts, but more needs to be done on transparency. The excessive secrecy surrounding the WHO pandemic treaty is… Continue Reading
On Thursday, 14 November 2024, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered the following statement on Article 11 on the transfer of technology and know-how for the production of pandemic related health products. In several interventions and in talks with negotiators, KEI… Continue Reading
kei-bn-2024-8 KEI Briefing Note 2024:8. The Basic Proposal for the Design Law Treaty (DLT) and its inappropriate restrictions on transparency November 12, 2024