Here is a link to the text of the WHO EB’s draft resolution on the resport of the WHO Commission on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH). http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/who/WHOcipih280406.html from the mini EB meeting on April 28. The US government… Continue Reading
The attached is a February 24, 2005 letter signed by 162 experts, asking the World Health Organization to Evaluate New Treaty Framework for Medical Research and Development The proposal for a Medical R&D Treaty (MRDT) was designed as an alternative… Continue Reading
2000: Paying for health care R&D – Carrots and Sticks James Love* October 19, 2000 *Thirukumaran Balasubramaniam provided research for this paper. Table of Contents Introduction Failures of the Market Investors cannot appropriate all the benefits of research. R&D is… Continue Reading
Preliminary thoughts on a program for Essential Health Research James Love January 6, 1999 Essential Health Research and the Market In matters concerning public health, intellectual property rights are a means and not an end. Patents and other types of… Continue Reading
A Free Trade Area For The Americas: A Consumer Perspective On Proposals As They Relate To Rules Regarding Intellectual Property Comments for the Working Group On Intellectual Property Rights, Third Trade Ministerial and Americas Business Forum, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, May… Continue Reading
Pharmaceutical Drugs, Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health: A Consumer Perspective from the United States James Packard Love* Presented at XV Asamblea General de la Asociaión Latinoamericana de Industrias Farmacéuticas San Carlos de Bariloche – Río Negro – Argentina 11… Continue Reading