In Meril v. Edwards, the Court of Appeal (CoA) of the (European) Unified Patent Court held that permanent injunctions can be withheld when interests of patients are taken into account
Author: James Love
KEI Briefing Note, 2024-9, Voting rights in treaties.
Voting rights in treaties KEI Briefing Note 2024-9 November 27, 2024 Arianna Schouten, Thiru Balasubramaniam and James Love In 2024, several treaties were concluded or were being negotiated. Among the many issues debated were the articles and governance, including the… Continue Reading
KEI statement at the WIPO General Assembly on negotiations on traditional Knowledge and traditional cultural expressions
IGC Statement by KEI at 2025 WIPO GA Reflecting on the fact that the 2024 Diplomatic Conference on the treaty to disclose genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge came after more than two decades and more than 50 meetings of… Continue Reading
KEI Comments on Trump Executive Order on “Foreign Nations Freeloading on American-Financed Innovation”
KEI has filed two comments with USTR in its “Request for Comments Regarding Foreign Nations Freeloading on American-Financed Innovation,” (90 FR 23105). This comment summarized some of KEI’s past comments on the trade related aspects of biomedical R&D and public… Continue Reading
Proposed in 2024: The 3 page terms of reference for a National Academies study of delinking R&D incentives for new drugs from monopolies
CR-prize-study-tor-2024 At the end of 2024, Congress was poised to enact a 1547 page appropriations bill with bipartisan support. Elon Musk blew up the bill, mounting an attack on the bill through X, the social media platform he controls. The… Continue Reading
Request for issuance of authorization and consent to use federal rights in three patents to supply enzalutamide to patients in government programs
This is a PDF copy of the letter June 13, 2025 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Secretary U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201 RE: Request for issuance of authorization and consent to use… Continue Reading
The cost of trials used to support the initial FDA approval of risdiplam (Evrysdi)
WHO Pandemic agreement text as of Saturday, 12 April 2025 at 09:05
This is the pandemic agreement text, as of today. Negotiations are resumed Tuesday, but this is what people expect to be in the fine agreement. Green is supposed to mean the text is final. The EU still not in agreement… Continue Reading
Roundtable on negotiating text for a WIPO Broadcast Treaty, April 3, 2025
(UPDATE: A recording of the event is available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNw57Jps7z8) KEI will host an informal roundtable on the WIPO broadcast treaty text that will be discussed at the WIPO SCCR 46 meeting from April 7 to April… Continue Reading
KEI’s comments on the NITRD AI Action Plan
