On Monday, 9 July 2018, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) made the following statement on exceptions and limitations to patent rights. KEI made the following proposal: In terms of future work on this item on exceptions and limitations to patent rights,… Continue Reading
On 9 July 2018, Indonesia delivered this opening statement on behalf of the Asia & the Pacific Group at the 28th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP). Opening Statement by the Republic of Indonesia… Continue Reading
On July 2, 2018, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) filed comments to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding the prospective grant of an exclusive license to the University of Liverpool, located in the U.K. The inventions described in the Federal… Continue Reading
In May 2017, the 70th World Health Assembly passed a cancer resolution (WHA70.12, Cancer prevention and control in the context of an integrated approach). At the time KEI provided the following commentary on the cancer resolution: On Tuesday, May 30,… Continue Reading
Update: the NIH has rejected our request for expedited processing of the FOIA, on the grounds that KEI did not demonstrate “that there exists an urgency to inform the public” about the costs of the NIH CAR T or mesothelin… Continue Reading
On June 28, 2018, the U.S. Senate provided the necessary advice and consent for ratification of the WIPO Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled. At present, 39… Continue Reading
*(The author thanks Vitor Ido for his extensive notes of the 1st round of informal consultations held on 20 June 2018). On Thursday, 28 June 2018, the delegations of Brazil, Colombia, Mozambique, Portugal, and Thailand submitted a draft resolution on… Continue Reading
On June 25, 2018, plaintiff KEI filed a memorandum in opposition to a motion to dismiss filed by defendants NIH et al. The opposition cites the declaration of KEI Director James Love. The original KEI complaint is here: https://www.keionline.org/27669 The… Continue Reading
Today Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), the Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment (UACT), Health GAP, Social Security Works (SSW), People of Faith for Access to Medicines (PFAM), Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) and Dean Baker filed comments to the National… Continue Reading
On June 8, 2018 the Cámara de Diputados of the Chilean Congress overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on the Ministry of Health to proceed with compulsory licenses on patents covering hepatitis C virus (HCV) drugs. Resolution No. 68, passed with… Continue Reading