WIPO SCCR28 Day 1: Support for a Broadcasting Treaty Diplomatic Conference in 2015?

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Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: Twenty-Eighth Session
SCCR/28 June 30 to July 4, 2014 (Geneva, Switzerland)

June 30, 2014. Morning Session
to read the close captioning of SCCR28
http://www.streamtext.net/player?event=WIPO
password: sccr28 during the meeting
Watch live: Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights – ow.ly/yAzbf. #SCCR28

Find a few comments and selected interventions:

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For expensive cancer drugs, rationing of access is not the only solution

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I woke up this morning to read an article by Karol Sikora, a Dean at the University of Buckingham Medical School, about high cancer drug prices.* This quote caught my eye.

quote: “So cancer drug rationing is inevitable in all health economies – rich and poor alike. My solution is to have age limits for expensive therapies. Oncologists have been doing this covertly for the last two decades – it’s now time to be explicit.”

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WTO TRIPS Council (June 2014): EU on the contribution of IP to facilitate the transfer of environmentally rational technology

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On Wednesday, 11 June 2014, the European Union delivered the following statement on the “Contribution of IP to facilitate the transfer of environmentally rational technology technology.’

EU intervention under point 11. Of the TRIPS Council Agenda
“Contribution of IP to facilitate the transfer of environmentally rational technology”

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TTIP: Anti-Transparency Rules laid out in USTR letter to DG-Trade

Posted on by Claire Cassedy

KEI has obtained the terms of reference (TOR) for the confidentiality of the negotiating texts of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Agreement. The TOR are laid out in a two-page letter from US Chief Negotiator Dan Mullaney to EU Chief Negotiator Ignacio Garcia-Bercero which is available here. The letter was obtained through a FOIA request filed by KEI with the USTR on May 19, 2014.

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WTO TRIPS Council (June 2014) – India’s intervention on Intellectual Property and Innovation: Innovation Incubators

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On Wednesday, 11 June 2014, India delivered a statement at the WTO TRIPS Council on”Intellectual Property and Innovation: Innovation Incubators”; Chinese Taipei (WTO speak for Taiwan) and the United States proposed this agenda item.

We thank the delegations of the United States and Chinese Taipei for tabling an agenda item on “Intellectual Property and Innovation: Innovation Incubators ” which we understand is a standalone item.

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WIPO: Africa Group Statement on the Formal Integration of PPH system to PCT

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WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Working Group is meeting from 10 June 2014 to 13 June 2014. Among the hot topics of discussion is a paper tabled by the United Kingdom and the United States on Formal Integration of the Patent Prosecution Highway into the PCT. The basic ask of the UK/US proposal (PCT/WG/7/21) is to amend the regulations of WIPO’s PCT Regulations and Administrative Instructions to formally integrate the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) into the PCT system.

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WTO TRIPS Council (June 2014): USTR submission on Non-Violation Complaints Under the TRIPS Agreement

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On 10 June 2014, the United States tabled a paper (IP/C/W/599) to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) TRIPS Council on “Non-Violation Complaints Under the TRIPS Agreement.” This paper is expected to be discussed at the TRIPS Council today (11 June 2014) under agenda item 7 on “Non-Violation and Situation Complaints.”

As previously mentioned in our February 2014 piece,

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