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13 non-profits urge Senate HELP Committee to block floor amendments to 21st Century Cures Act counterpart

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Zack Struver

Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) presents a legislative package of healthcare reforms to the Senate floor for an up-or-down vote, 13 consumer, patient and health non-profit groups sent a letter to HELP Chairman and Ranking Member to ensure that the final legislative package includes only those bills that the HELP Committee reviewed in mark-up sessions.

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122 experts defend Colombia’s right to issue compulsory license on imatinib in face of U.S. pressure

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Zack Struver

(More on Colombia here: /colombia)

On May 16, 2016, 122 health, trade, and intellectual property experts defended the Colombian government’s right to issue a compulsory license on imatinib, an expensive leukemia drug that is being sold at a high price by the Swiss drug company Novartis, in a letter to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.

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2016: MeiraGTx, NIH license of patents on AAVMediated Aquaporin Gene Transfer To Treat Sjögren’s Syndrome

Posted on May 16, 2016 by James Love

(More on government funded inventions here. Other KEI comments on NIH licenses are found here.) May 16th, 2016 Sally Hu, Ph.D., M.B.A., Senior Licensing and Patenting Manager, Office of Technology Transfer and Innovation Access, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial… Continue Reading →

SCCR32: Conclusion by the chair and comments from the floor

Posted on May 15, 2016 by KEI Staff

SCCR 32 Conclusions proposed by the chair. Late Friday May 13, 2016. Nigeria, Bahamas, Brazil, South Africa and Egypt were exceptionnaly interesting. Here is most of what was said including the reading of the proposed conclusions and the comments from… Continue Reading →

SCCR 32 KEI on Cross Border Uses

Posted on May 14, 2016 by KEI Staff

KEI: I wanted to just address some of the issues on the cross-border relationship with the exceptions. I know the publisher mentioned mention to three step test. There are three important exceptions that are not related to the three step… Continue Reading →

SCCR 32 Day 4 Some countries statements re Libraries & Archives

Posted on May 14, 2016 by KEI Staff

> SOUTH AFRICA: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. At the outset, South Africa supports the statement made by Nigeria on behalf of the Africa Group. 2015 was a milestone in the global calendar. We adopted agenda 2030, which outlined 17 goals… Continue Reading →

SCCR 32 DAY 4 Groups on Libraries and Archives Issues

Posted on May 14, 2016 by KEI Staff

Day 4. May 12, 2016 After the Chair Summary of the previous discussions on libraries and archives limitations and exceptions we heard the goup statements. In brief, Group B (the rich countries) stated that the discussions should continue to get… Continue Reading →

SCCR 32: EIFL.NET on Orphan works

Posted on May 14, 2016 by KEI Staff

>> EIFL.NET: I will start with retracted and withdrawn works. So libraries and archives have a mandate to pre seven public record for the future. In the analog aenvironment exhaustion to the distribution right provides legal means to insure its… Continue Reading →

SCCR 32: SAA Statement on Orphan Works

Posted on May 14, 2016 by KEI Staff

>> SAA: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Orphan works, what an appropriate name for the stuff of everyday life that we all create? Diaries, business memos and photographs that we never bother to mark with our own names. Most of it… Continue Reading →

SCCR32 Day 4 Strong statement on education by the American University PIJIP

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Manon Ress

Speaking on behalf of the American University programme on information justice and Intellectual Property. And I speak as an educator myself and also on behalf of a larger network that I coordinate called the global expert network on user rights which is a network of educators.

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Access to Knowledge, Negotiations SCCR 32, WIPO

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