Seminars on Drug Pricing: Part 5 Kevin Outterson, Antibiotic Delinkage
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Seminars on Drug Pricing: Part 4, Bhaven Sampat
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Letter from six NGOs to Obama on the WTO LDC patent waiver negotiation
Six NGOs — including Oxfam America, Health GAP, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), the Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment (UACT), the Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network (YP-CDN), and Public Citizen — sent a letter to President Obama today asking him to publicly express the United States’ “full and unconditional support” for the waiver of World Trade Organization (WTO) drug patent rules for Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Continue Reading
Final draft, India National IPR Policy, by IP Think Tank constituted by DIPP, Ministry of Commerce and Industry
This is a copy of recommendations for an Indian National IPR Policy, written by the “IP Think Tank,” which was constituted by the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion(DIPP), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. A copy scanned from a hard copy is here.
The members of the IPR Think Tank were:
- Justice Prabha Sridevan (Retd) – Chairperson
- Mrs. Prathiba M. Singh, Senior Advocate – Member
- Mr. Narendra K. Sabharwal – Member & Convener
Commentary on TPP IP Chapter Leak
Press Releases and Articles about the IP Chapter of the TPP
Leaked text can be found here.
Some KEI Tweets regarding TPP IP Chapter
On 9 October 2015, Wikileaks released the final text of the IP chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Jamie Love provided comments via twitter.
https://twitter.com/jamie_love
Updated: 9 October 2015
(In the order posted)
- Wikileaks has the October 5, 2015 version of the #TPP IP Chapter. https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip3/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter/WikiLeaks-TPP-IP-Chapter-051015.pdf
Senator Bernie Sanders proposal to expand Veterans access to patented medical inventions
This is a video by Zack Struver about Senator Bernie Sander’s proposal to expand Veterans access to patented medical inventions. The video discusses both the proposal by Senator Sanders to give the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs the authority to use compulsory licenses on patents on medical inventions, including drugs, and the history of “government use” provisions in current U.S. statutes, including 28 U.S.C. 1498, which Sanders proposes modifying.
IMS Health May 2015 comments on patient access to oncology drugs
IMS Health, the global information and technology services company, known for its statistics on sales of drugs, published a study in May 2015 that estimated the global market for oncology drugs now exceeds $100 billion per year.
KEI briefing note on the evolution of TPP negotiating text on patentable subject matter
The attached PDF file is a KEI briefing note on the evolution of certain sections of the TPP negotiating text on patents and patentable subject matter.
Seminars on Drug Pricing: Part 3, Aidan Hollis
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