Westinghouse acquisition On July 17, 2007, four groups, including KEI, have sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”), asking that it block a proposed sale of 10 percent of… Continue Reading
Some key events in the early development of the proposal for a Pan African Intellectual Property Organization Joelle Dountio 10 February 2013 Feb 2003. The Secretariat of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), which is a program of the… Continue Reading
2000 May 20, 2000 – WHO passes WHA 53.17, which calls for research, prevention, collaboration, and capacity building to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases 2002 April 13, 2002 –The Salt Institute and other industry lobbying groups release their first comments… Continue Reading
Other KEI timelines. KEI web page on WIPO broadcasting treaty negotiation. 1961 Concluded at Rome on 26 October 1961 in Rome, Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations 1997 28-30 April 1997, World Symposium… Continue Reading
To be added, the early CLs on HIV drugs in several African countries. South Africa 2013 2003: CPTech’s 2003 reports for the RSA Competition Commission, in Hazel Tau et al.v GSK, Boehringer, et al. CPTech was the consultant to the… Continue Reading
India 2010 2010: India’s intervention to the WTO TRIPS Council: TRIPS plus enforcement trends, 2010-06-10 2011 2011: Karl De Gucht writes Andris Piebalgs on topic of European Union IPR demands on India and other developing countries, 2011-05-28 2011: WTO TRIPS… Continue Reading
Brazil 1990-2000 Comments for the Working Group On Intellectual Property Rights, Third Trade Ministerial and Americas Business Forum, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, May 13-16,1997, 1997-05-16 2005 U.S. DoS Cable: U.S. PHARMA FIRMS THREATENED WITH LICENSING (Brazil), June 3, 2005. U.S. DoS… Continue Reading
Gilead 10-Q, 3rd quarter 2017 If any party is successful in establishing exclusive rights to axi-cel, our anticipated revenues and earnings from the sale of that product could be adversely affected. In October 2017, we acquired Kite, which is now… Continue Reading
2008 Colombian Submission to the WHO IGWG negotiation, 2008-03-07 2015 Switzerland pressures Colombia to deny compulsory license on imatinib, 2015-08-17 2016 Colombia takes an important step in defining the public interest in compulsory licensing case, 2016-03-04 Colombia Technical Committee Recommends… Continue Reading
July 7, 2003. Sign-on letter from 69 scientists and economists to Kamil Idris, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization requesting that WIPO host a meeting on open and collaborative development. CPTech Page on Trade Frameworks for Funding Research… Continue Reading