At the recently completed Vietnam round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), once again, no official text of negotiation was released. Therefore, we still need to speculate about its status, relying in part on a three-month-ago leaked version of the intellectual property chapter proposed by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR).

At the end of the month, Judit Rius will be leaving KEI and joining MSF in New York as U.S. Manager of MSF's Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. Judit has been with KEI since 2006, and from the beginning, contributed greatly to nearly every aspect of KEI's work. We will miss her a lot. At MSF, Judit will work closely with another talented former KEI lawyer, Michelle Childs. We wish Judit well in her new position, and congratulate MSF on the appointment.

Anne is a Road to the Future Fellow at the George Washington University Law School and works for Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) as a legal and policy Research Associate in Washington, DC. Her projects have included research and analysis in the areas of US and foreign statutory and judicial compulsory licensing mechanisms, access to medicines, ACTA, Bayh-Dole, and the proposed WIPO treaty for the visually impaired.

KEI remarks on accepting the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions

James Love
Knowledge Ecology International
October 5, 2006

Thank you. Thanks in particular to Elspeth Revere and Kathy Im.

This award recognizes the collective efforts of our very devoted and talented staff and board. The money and the recognition will make it possible for Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), our new corporate entity, to do more.