Other country trade disputes
KEI RN 2007:2 Recent examples of compulsory licensing of patents
KEI Research Note 2007:2 [1]
(A PDF version of this is available here.)
Recent examples of the use of compulsory licenses on patents[1]
KEI Research Note 2007:2
Switzerland’s intellectual property rules are often different from what you might expect
Submitted by James Love on 25. June 2009 - 14:56The US Department of State “2009 Investment Climate Statement for Switzerland” provides an interesting and often unexpected portrait of the intellectual property landscape for a country that is often a hard-liner in global IPR negotiations.
Press Advisory: NGO letters to WHO & WTO on Dutch seizures of generic medicines in-transit from India to Brazil, Colombia & Peru
Submitted by thiru on 19. February 2009 - 5:32February 19, 2009
Press Advisory on NGO letters to WHO and WTO on topic of Dutch seizures of generic medicines in-transit from India to Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
In response to news about four seizures of generic medicines manufactured in India and shipped through the Netherlands in route to Brazil, Colombia and Peru, sixteen public health, consumer and development NGOs have sent separate letters to the heads of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Intervention by the European Communities (EC) at WTO General Council on the seizure of losartan by Dutch customs authorities
Submitted by thiru on 5. February 2009 - 9:03On 3 February 2009, Ambassador Eckart Guth of the European Communities to the World Trade Organization made the following intervention at the WTO General Council on the subject of the seizure of losartan by the Dutch customs authorities.
WTO GENERAL COUNCIL (3rd February 2009)
Any Other Business
EC INTERVENTION
Details emerge of secret ACTA negotiation
Submitted by James Love on 3. February 2009 - 15:38There are plans for the next ACTA negotiation to take place in Rabat, Morocco. However, since none of the Obama trade people have been placed at USTR, this might be delayed.
The USTR is still maintaining secrecy over details of the negotiation, including the names of participants and all of the proposed texts for negotiations. Despite this, KEI has obtained some documents related to the negotiations. We can report the following:
Intervention by Brazil at WTO General Council on seizure of 500 kilos of generic medicines by Dutch customs authorities
Submitted by thiru on 3. February 2009 - 14:08On this day, 3 February 2009, H.E. Ambassador Roberto AZEVÊDO, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other economic organizations in Geneva made the following intervention at the WTO General Council meeting on the seizure by Dutch authorities of a cargo of 500 kilos of losartan potassium en route from India to Brazil.
Journalists who wrote about US trade disputes before the 1999 Gore Zaps
Submitted by James Love on 29. February 2008 - 18:54In a blog posted today on the Huffington Post, I could have, should have, elaborated a bit on the few U.S. journalists who had written about the trade disputes involving patents on medicines, before AIDS activists began their zaps of Gore’s presidential campaign in June of 1999.
December 4, 2007 Ruth Lopert Brown Bag on FTAs
Submitted by Staff on 27. November 2007 - 23:00Wednesday, 28 November 2007
Knowledge Ecology International Brown Bag Lunch:
Ruth Lopert on pharmaceutical provisions in Australia-US and Korea-US FTAs
Washington, DC
4 December 2007
