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
March 2006
CPTech Response to 2006 PhRMA “Special 301” Submission for Chile
The “Special 301” Report is a report that the office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) submits annually to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee on the adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights protection around the world. The report identifies those countries that the USTR consider “deny adequate and effective protection for IPR or deny fair and equitable market access for U.S. persons that rely on intellectual property protection”.
This is a joint statement by that NGOs presented to negotiators in 2005, as the WTO considered an amendment on TRIPS and public health, to address cases where medicines would be exported to countries with “insufficient or no manufacturing capacity.”… Continue Reading
R 281104Z JUN 05 – June 28, 2005FM AMEMBASSY BRASILIATO SECSTATE WASHDC 1902SUBJECT: BRAZIL GIVES ABBOTT TEN DAYS BEFORE BREAKING PATENT 1. (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED 2. (U) Summary. On Friday June 24, the GoB announced a declaration of “public… Continue Reading
February 16, 2005 109th Congress, 1st Session Issue: Vol. 151, No. 17 — Daily Edition [Pages S1498-S1499] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] THE DOHA DECLARATION AND THE TRADE PROMOTION AUTHORITY ACT OF 2002 Mr.… Continue Reading
This is a letter, dated July 22, 2004, by six consumer groups, asking Robert Zoellick and other members of the Bush Administration, to change US trade policy, so that research and development, rather than intellectual property rights, were the focus.… Continue Reading
Sep 16, 2010 A New Trade Framework for Global Healthcare R&D[1] Access to Medicines and the Financing of Innovations in Health Care Workshop Hosted by the Program on Science, Technology, and Global Development, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, and… Continue Reading
Compulsory Licensing: Models For State Practice In Developing Countries, Access to Medicine and Compliance with the WTO TRIPS Accord Prepared for the United Nations Development Programme January 21, 2001 James Love Consumer Project on Technology http://www.cptech.org Introduction.1 This note addresses… Continue Reading
This statement was developed at the Increasing Access to Essential Drugs in a Globalised Economy Working Towards Solutions conference, which was organized by Health Action International, Médecins Sans Frontières, and Consumer Project on Technology, and took place in Amsterdam, the… Continue Reading
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