On 9 July 2018, Indonesia delivered this opening statement on behalf of the Asia & the Pacific Group at the 28th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP). Opening Statement by the Republic of Indonesia… Continue Reading
In May 2017, the 70th World Health Assembly passed a cancer resolution (WHA70.12, Cancer prevention and control in the context of an integrated approach). At the time KEI provided the following commentary on the cancer resolution: On Tuesday, May 30,… Continue Reading
*(The author thanks Vitor Ido for his extensive notes of the 1st round of informal consultations held on 20 June 2018). On Thursday, 28 June 2018, the delegations of Brazil, Colombia, Mozambique, Portugal, and Thailand submitted a draft resolution on… Continue Reading
Walgreen and Kroger, two major U.S. pharmacies, have filed suit against Johnson & Johnson in the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, alleging antitrust violations stemming from exclusionary contracts and rebates designed to prevent biosimilars of J&J’s Remicade (INN:… Continue Reading
KEI has joined unions, NGOs and payors on a letter sent to Senator Grassley and Sen. Feinstein, the chair and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, thanking them for their support of the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent… Continue Reading
In June 2018, the European Union (EU) delivered the following statement on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest at the WTO TRIPS Council. The EU voiced a specific concern over a reference in the WTO submission by China and South… Continue Reading
As reported by Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) in May 2018, “[o]n 25 May 2018, the World Trade Organization (WTO) published a joint submission (IP/C/W/643) by China and South Africa to the TRIPS Council on Promoting Public Health Through Competition Law… Continue Reading
On Friday, 1 June 2018, WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR, 36th Session) adopted the following recommendation on the Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations. This language below is reproduced in paragraph 8 of the Chair’s… Continue Reading
Proposal from Senegal and Congo to include the Resale Right (droit de suite) in the Agenda of Future work by the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organization KEI supports further work on the… Continue Reading
Proposal for Analysis of Copyright Related to the Digital Environment KEI proposes that the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights request WIPO’s Chief Economist to attend the next session of the SCCR to discuss, with member states, the types… Continue Reading