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United States Patent and Trademark Office’s “Humanitarian Pilot Proposal.” Comments by KEI, MSF, Oxfam, PC and UAEM

Posted on March 8, 2011 by James Love

The USPTO is considering a pilot program to consider the benefits of providing a voucher for certain accelerated reviews of patent applications, as a reward for licensing patents for humanitarian uses. On March 2, 2011, Anne Guha provided a very useful summary of public comments on the proposal, which is available here: https://www.keionline.org/node/1074

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Interview with David Hammerstein regarding negotiations on WIPO treaty for persons who are blind or have other disabilities

Posted on March 7, 2011 by KEI Staff

David Hammerstein is a former Member of the European Parliament from Spain. He now works for the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD). Among other things, he is an advocate for a new WIPO copyright treaty for persons who are blind or have other disabilities. The following is an interview with David, carried out from March 3 to March 6 by email.

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Intervention of Brazil to the WTO TRIPS Council (March 2011) providing details about the Brazilian HIV treatment program

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Thiru

On Tuesday, 1 March 2011, Brazil made the following intervention at the WTO Council for TRIPS during discussions of the paragraph 6 system.

Mr. Chairman,

Brazil welcomes the opportunity for this follow-up to the review on the implementation of the paragraph 6 system. Our aim here is to assess whether this system is indeed an expeditious solution for countries lacking manufacturing capacity and to address any shortcomings for the system’s effective operation.

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Comments on Incentivizing Humanitarian Technologies and Licensing Through the Intellectual Property System

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Anne Mira Guha

On September 20, 2010, the PTO published “Request for Comments on Incentivizing Humanitarian Technologies and Licensing Through the Intellectual Property System” in the Federal Register (75 Fed. Reg. 57261, available here):

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Michel Barnier tells the European Blind Union the EU does not support a treaty for persons with disabilities

Posted on March 2, 2011 by James Love

On March 2, 2011, Michel Barnier, the EC Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, wrote to Dan Pescod of the European Blind Union, to defend the European Commission decision to back a soft alternative to a treaty at WIPO. (More context, including the text of all of the proposals at WIPO, here. Continue Reading →

Response of WHO to KEI letter regarding McKinsey, vaccine policy and competing interests

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Thiru

On 20 February 2011, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General – Health Security and Environment, World Health Organization, responded to KEI’s letter (16 February 2011) regarding McKinsey, vaccine policy and competing interests. Here is the response in full (email contacts have been redacted).

From: “Fukuda, Keiji”
Date: February 20, 2011 4:14:05 PM GMT+01:00
To: “Thiru Balasubramaniam”
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Month: March 2011

United States Patent and Trademark Office’s “Humanitarian Pilot Proposal.” Comments by KEI, MSF, Oxfam, PC and UAEM

Interview with David Hammerstein regarding negotiations on WIPO treaty for persons who are blind or have other disabilities

Intervention of Brazil to the WTO TRIPS Council (March 2011) providing details about the Brazilian HIV treatment program

Comments on Incentivizing Humanitarian Technologies and Licensing Through the Intellectual Property System

Michel Barnier tells the European Blind Union the EU does not support a treaty for persons with disabilities

Response of WHO to KEI letter regarding McKinsey, vaccine policy and competing interests

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