New leak of TPP consolidated text on intellectual property provides details of pandering to drug companies and publishers

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James Love, Knowledge Ecology International
email: james.love@keionline.org, +1.202.361.3040

The May 16, 2014 version of the consolidated negotiating text for the Intellectual Property Chapter for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is a long, complex document that taken as a whole is designed to expand and extend monopolies on knowledge goods, including in particular publisher-owned copyrights, patents on inventions, and monopoly rights in data used to register new drugs, vaccines and agricultural chemical products.

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WIPO General Assembly: Worst ever?

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European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommends approval of Harvoni, Gilead’s all oral HCV combination product

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is recommending approval of Harvoni, a combination of 9mg of ledipasvir (LDV) and 400mg of sofosbuvir (SOF), for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in adults. This is the “all oral” combination product, delivered in daily does of just 490 mg of API, for the “cure of patients with chronic HCV infection without the need for treatments involving interferons.”

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Comments of KEI regarding the White House OSTP call for comments on its Strategy for American Innovation

Comments of KEI regarding the White House OSTP call for comments on its Strategy for American Innovation

(PDF of comments here)

Attn: Dan Correa, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Eisenhower Executive Office Building, 1650 Pennsylvania Ave NW., Washington, DC 20504.
Email: innovationstrategy@ostp.gov.
Re: Strategy for American Innovation
Date: September 23, 2014

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FDA creates $500k prize for technology to improve detection of Salmonella

This just published by the US FDA:

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking for potential breakthrough ideas on how to find disease-causing organisms in food – especially Salmonella in fresh produce.

The 2014 FDA Food Safety Challenge was developed under the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, which grants all federal agencies broad authority to conduct prize competitions to spur innovation, solve tough problems, and advance their core missions. This challenge offers a total prize pool of $500,000.

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Bayer’s rejection of request for affordable Nexavar for Fathi Helmi Aboseda (Egypt)

Today we received news from Nina Mahmud that her father-in-law, Fathi Helmi Aboseda, has passed away in Egypt. Mr. Aboseda was suffering from liver cancer. Earlier this year, Nina Mahmud had contacted Bayer and KEI asking for help in finding affordable copies of sorafenib, a drug for liver and kidney cancer sold by Bayer under the trade name Nexavar, a drug that was extending and improving the quality of his life. The price of Nexavar in Egypt was $900 per week, and Mr. Aboseda had used his entire life savings to buy the drug.

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