By Katy Athersuch [1] and Thiru Balasubramaniam In May 2018, the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted decision WHA71(8) requesting WHO’s Director-General to “elaborate a roadmap, in consultation with Member States, outlining the programming of WHO’s work on access to medicines… Continue Reading
Update. NIH sent us a 147 word response on November 23, 2018: NIH to KEI regarding Ovensa 23 NOV 2018. The brief reply states that “Prior to posting notices of a proposed grant of exclusive commercialization licenses, the NIH determines… Continue Reading
This will be discussed next week at the SCCR 37 Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) Thirty-Seventh Session Geneva, November 26- 30, 2018 PROPOSAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON THE SCOPE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF RIGHTS, WIPO… Continue Reading
On 9 November 2018, South Africa delivered the following statement on IP and competition policy at the WTO TRIPS Council under agenda item 13 on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest: Promoting Public Health Through Competition Law and Policy (an… Continue Reading
On 9 November 2018, Brazil delivered the following statement on IP and competition policy at the WTO TRIPS Council under agenda item 13 on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest: Promoting Public Health Through Competition Law and Policy (an item… Continue Reading
On 9 November 2018, the European Union (EU) delivered the following statement on IP and competition policy at the WTO TRIPS Council under agenda item 13 on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest: Promoting Public Health Through Competition Law and… Continue Reading
KEI has filed a pre-hearing statement for the International Trade Commission, “On the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement: Likely Impact on the U.S. Economy and on Specific Industry Sectors Investigation (No.TPA-105-003)” KEI-Pre-hearing-statement-ITC-USMCA-30Oct2018 The submission covers the following topoics: Patentable subject matter for… Continue Reading
UPDATE: In November 2018, South Africa notified the WTO Secretariat that Brazil and India requested to co-sponsor this submission on Promoting Public Health Through Competition Law and Policy. On 29 October 2018, the World Trade Organization (WTO) published a submission… Continue Reading
On Monday, October 15, 2018, Judge Peter J. Messitte of the United States District Court, District of Maryland, convened a hearing on a motion by the NIH to dismiss a lawsuit (Case 8:18-cv-01130-PJM) by KEI regarding the decision by the… Continue Reading
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) provisions on the term of protection of test data for new pharmaceutical products has received considerable attention, and in some cases, some inaccurate reports on the agreement have conflated the term for test data protection… Continue Reading