2011: The Year Ahead at WHO, WIPO and WTO
As 2011 unfolds, the following conferences and negotiations are expected to shape the knowledge governance landscape this year at WHO, WIPO and WTO.
World Health Organization
Differences in deaths for 6 cancer types in 14 WHO regions, with reference to income of region
A pdf version of this document is available here.
KEI Research Note 2010:5
December 23, 2010Differences in ratio of deaths to new cases for 6 cancer types in 14 WHO regions, with reference to income of region
Introduction
Ratio of year 2000 breast cancer deaths to new breast cancer patients in Europe, by country and country income
The following graph presents the year 2000 raw mortality rate of breast cancer patients in 36 European Countries. The graph compares the ratio of breast cancer deaths to the annual incidence of breast cancer, to the per capita incomes in those countries, all based upon year 2000 data. Continue Reading
NIH funded research involving trastuzumab (marketed by Roche under the trade name Herceptin)
13 December 2010
Drugs@FDA
Drug Name(s) HERCEPTIN (Brand Name Drug)
FDA Application No. (BLA) 103792
Active Ingredient(s) TRASTUZUMAB
Company GENENTECH (Roche acquired a majority ownership in 1990, and full ownership in March 2009.)
Original Approval or Tentative Approval Date September 25, 1998What is Herceptin? How does it work?
Statements by KEI and others on NIH rejection of Fabrazyme March-In Request
For background on the Fabrazyme case, see: https://www.keionline.org/fabrazyme
The following statements were made today by civil society on the NIH rejection of the Fabrazyme March-in Request Petition. Contact Judit Rius at judit.rius@keionline.org if your organization would like to submit an statement.
Statement by James Love, Director of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) (Contact: 1.202.361.3040)
Microsoft, Gates Foundation Timeline
November 29, 2010 Revised January 4, 2011 Introduction This timeline contains a number of selected data points concerning Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). The motivations for this timeline, which features entries for both Microsoft and the… Continue Reading
KEI statement to Committee on Development and Intellectual Property on WIPO project on IP and Competition Policy
Knowledge Ecology International made the following intervention today at the 6th Session of the WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP).
KEI statement to WIPO CDIP 6 on Agenda item 5Thank you Ambassador and congratulations on your appointment as Chair of this Committee.
Revealing study by L Yager (GAO): ‘Observations on efforts to quantify the economic effects of counterfeit and pirated goods’
The 6th session of the WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement is taking place in Geneva from 1-2 December 2010. KEI’s observations on the 5th session, entitled, Positive outcome reached at WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement while ACTA looms in the East can be found here:/node/681.
Non-responsive letter from David Kappos of USPTO to Senators Sanders and Brown regarding ACTA consistency with US law
In a October 19, 2010, Senators Bernard Sanders (I-VT) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) wrote to David Kappos, the Director of the USPTO, asking for an assessment of conflicts between the October 2010 ACTA text, and U.S. law. (attached here).
Undersecretary of Commerce for
Intellectual Property, David KapposA KEI note to Library of Congress about ACTA text
From: James Love
To: Michele Woods
Cc: Nancy Weiss
Subject: Some examples of US inconsistency with ACTA
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:29:09 -0500This note cites several areas where US law is plainly inconsistent with
ACTA.In addition, in a separate analysis,I have called attention to proposed
legislation in USA on orphan copyrighted works that are very
inconsistent with ACTA provisions on remedies.
https://www.keionline.org/node/980Some examples of inconsistencies between ACTA and US law