TRIPS Agreement
SCP16: KEI intervention on Patents and Health
Submitted by thiru on 19. May 2011 - 8:0016th session of the WIPO Standing Committee of the Law of Patents (SCP)
Thursady, 19 May 2011KEI Statement on Patents and Health
KEI is impressed by and fully supportive of the joint proposal of the African Group and the Development Agenda Group on a work program on Patents and Health, which has been published as SCP/16/7. We agree with the comments of the Chair that the proposal is both comprehensive and well thought out.
Save the Date-17 May 2011-KEI @ WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents: Patents and Health
Submitted by thiru on 15. May 2011 - 1:24Knowledge Ecology International: Patents and HealthDATE: Tuesday, 17 May 2011
TIME: 13:30-15h00
VENUE: Room B at the WIPO Main Building
Rethinking compulsory licensing for export: WTO members hold informal consultations on Paragraph 6 implementation
Submitted by thiru on 12. February 2010 - 5:59Friday, 12 February 2010
Around 100 Members of the World Trade Organization attended informal consultations today in Room E (a mainstay of the green room consultations) to discuss the implementation of Paragraph 6 mechanism which was created to be an "an expeditious solution" for "WTO members with insufficient or no manufacturing capacities in the pharmaceutical sector" that faced difficulties in in "making effective use of compulsory licensing under the TRIPS Agreement".
