See also the following essays in Medium: The proposed WTO agreement on intellectual property and COVID 19 vaccines should not require that authorizations of non-voluntary use of patents list all patents covered, Medium, March 17, 2022. The Quad WTO proposal… Continue Reading
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/USTR-2021-0021-0120 Trade related aspects of public goods Submission to USTR and the Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) James Love, KEI March 8, 2022 Introduction One can think of the economy as including both public and private goods, each valued by… Continue Reading
Comments of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) 2022 Special 301 Review: Docket (USTR-2021-0021) January 31, 2022 1. The public comment process should provide the public with the opportunity to respond to industry submissions. The Special 301 submissions are primarily from rights… Continue Reading
USTR-AmbTai-Bilateral-Plurilateal-agreements-3Dec2021 December 3, 2021 Ambassador Katherine Tai Office of the United States Trade Representative Washington, DC Dear Ambassador Tai, On November 18, 2021, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) provided comments to USTR on three issues that were important for any WTO… Continue Reading
KEI sent this letter to USTR today regarding the TRIPS Waiver negotiations. Highlights what we think are the three most important issues. KEI-USTR-TRIPS-waiver-Priorities-18nov2021 November 18, 2021 Ambassador Katherine Tai Office of the United States Trade Representative Washington, DC Dear Ambassador… Continue Reading
November 10, 2021 Andrew Burke, Ph.D. Senior Technology Transfer Manager, NCI Technology Transfer Center, Email: andy.burke@nih.gov. Re: Prospective Grant of an Exclusive Patent License: Development and Commercialization of CRISPR-Engineered T Cell Therapies for the Treatment of Cancer to Neogene Therapeutics… Continue Reading
(For more resources, please see our page on molnupiravir.) KEI has built a dataset of patents related to molnupiravir based upon a study by Imran et al (2021), the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) MedsPal database, and our own searches. Our… Continue Reading
October 15, 2021 James Love In the past few days, two documents have been leaked regarding the European Union (EU)’s positions at the World Trade Organization (WTO), in negotiations over which rules if any at the WTO should be waived… Continue Reading
On Monday, 21 June 2021, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered the following oral statement to the Open Session of the 23rd Meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines. The program for the open… Continue Reading
MacDonald-Dupuis, Natasha. La Bolivie veut importer du Canada des vaccins contre la COVID-19. ICI Ontario. June 9, 2021. MacDonald-Dupuis, Natasha. La Bolivie veut importer du Canada des vaccins contre la COVID-19 Radio Canada. June 8, 2021. Bruce, Francesca. Canadian Firm… Continue Reading