Knowledge Governance Negotiations
KEI notes from Eighth Round of TPPA Negotiations
Submitted by Krista Cox on 18. September 2011 - 16:22Krista Cox wrote these notes on September 13, 2011, reporting on the eighth round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
USTR releases new White Paper on Access to Medicine: includes almost no specifics in terms of negotiating positions
Submitted by James Love on 12. September 2011 - 11:34USTR has released its new White Paper on Access to Medicine. Here is the press release. A copy of the White Paper is available here:
What best describes Obama Administration rationale for secrecy of tabled TransPacific Partnership Agreement IPR texts?
Submitted by James Love on 11. September 2011 - 13:58KEI comments on inconsistencies between USTR proposal for the TPPA and current US law
Submitted by Krista Cox on 31. August 2011 - 8:37As KEI has discussed previously, USTR's proposal for the IP chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) raises numerous concerns for human rights, access to medicines, and access to information, among other issues.
WIPO General Assembly: Expectations loom over decisions on treaties for actors, reading disabled persons and genetic resources
Submitted by thiru on 28. July 2011 - 10:43The WIPO General Assembly meets from Monday, 26 September 2011 to Wednesday, 5 October 2011 and will take place at the International Conference Center Geneva (CICG), 17 rue de Varembé, 1211, Geneva.
The tentative schedule for 49th session of the WIPO General Assembly can be found here: http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/govbody/en/a_49/a_49_1_prov_2.pdf.
OMPI: Un instrument international pour la protection des ressources génétiques, des savoirs traditionnels et du folklore?
Submitted by Staff on 21. July 2011 - 9:45L’OMPI sur la voie d’un instrument international pour la protection des ressources génétiques, des savoirs traditionnels et du folklore.
21.07.11
Eugenia Olliaro (KEI)
Of WIPO, diplomatic conferences and international legally binding instruments
Submitted by thiru on 19. July 2011 - 8:28The 19th session of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore is meeting this week in Geneva (18-22 July 2011) to make a a decision on a possible international legal instrument (or instruments) to protect genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore. At the discussions of future work on 19 July 2011, the United States (Albert Tramposch, USPTO) asked the WIPO Legal Counsel (Edward Kwakwa) the following question.
Like-Minded Group requests convening of WIPO Diplomatic Conference on genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore
Submitted by thiru on 18. July 2011 - 1:29From 27 June to 30 June 2011, representatives from the like minded group of countries including Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Namibia, Pakistan, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, and Zimbabwe met in Bali, Indonesia to discuss the protection of genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore. This group submitted a joint recommendation to the WIPO secretariat (WIPO/GRTKF/IC/19/8) requesting the following:
BRICS Health Ministers’ Meeting-Beijing Declaration
Submitted by thiru on 11. July 2011 - 8:43BRICS Health Ministers’ Meeting
Beijing Declaration
July 11, 2011
KEI Intervention at UN HLM on HIV: De-Linking R&D costs from drug prices and the sustainability of treatment
Submitted by James Love on 9. June 2011 - 4:43
These are the notes from my intervention today at the UN's High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York. The persons making statements from the floor were asked to keep their comments to two minutes, so the actual intervention was somewhat shorter. Jamie
the comprehensive review of the progress achieved in realizing
the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and
