Among the cables recently published by Wilileaks is one written on November 24, 2009, detailing negotiations between USTR and Anand Sharma, the Cabinet Minister for Commerce and Industry of the Government of India. The complete cable is available here: http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/11/09NEWDELHI2375.html
August 28, 2011
From KEI staff review of Wikileaks cables (/wikileaks)
Among the many new cables released by Wikileaks is this gem, a detailed account of the U.S. government pressure on the Guatemala legislature to shape legislation on pharmaceutical test data IPR.
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2005/03/05GUATEMALA659.html
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 05 GUATEMALA 000659SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/11/2010
TAGS: ETRD KIPR PGOV PREL GT
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Posted August 27, 2011
These are some tools for searching the US Department of State cables released by Wikileaks.
A Wikileaks page on the cables is available here: http://wlcentral.org/cablegate
KEI recommends this site for searching the cables by key words:
http://cablegatesearch.net/search.php
You might also want to try:
John L. LaMattina, the former President of Pfizer Global Research and Development, has just published an article in Nature that looks at the impact of drug company mergers and increased industry concentration on R&D. Among his conclusions: the “impact on the R&D of the organizations involved has been devastating.”
http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v10/n8/full/nrd3514.html
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NATURE REVIEWS | DRUG DISCOVERY VOLUME 10 | AUGUST 2011 | 559
The impact of mergers on pharmaceutical R&D
KEI research associate Paul Miano has written the following paper: Cancer: Approval, ownership, market structure, and placement on WHO Model Essential Medicines List, for 100 new molecular entities (NMEs) on the NCI alpha list of cancer drugs and vaccines. KEI Research Note 2011:1,
A full copy of the paper is available in PDF format here.
The following is from the introduction (sans footnotes, which are in the PDF version):
KEI comment on the Medicines Patent Pool license with Gilead
July 12, 2011
FYI: James Love (Tuesday: +44.785.543.6510, james.love@keionline.org). Thiru Balasubramaniam (thiru@keionline.org) or Krista Cox (krista.cox@keionline.org, +1.202.332.2670).
June 24: The current negotiating document on disabilities at the WIPO SCCR is SCCR/22/16. A new version Prov. 1 was passed out this morning. Continue Reading
I have another blog that deals with U.S. employment data from the information sector. This one provides May 2010 employment and wage data from fourteen 4- and 5-digit NAICS industry groups in the “Information Sector.”
Notes on the data
KEI Statement on the Broadcast Treaty at WIPO SCCR 22
June 21, 2011
KEI opposes work at WIPO on a new treaty for broadcasting organizations.
To the extent that creative works are distributed through broadcasting networks, they are nearly always protected by copyright.
In the small cases where the broadcast involves material in the public domain, it would be a mistake to give the broadcaster an intellectual property right, merely for transmitting information.
I was asked recently to look at some data on employment in the copyright industry. This addresses one set of data points, the BLS estimates of US employment in the Sound Recording Industries.
Occupational Employment Statistics
NAICS 2-Digit Industry Specific Estimates, May 2010
51 Information 2,708,760
NAICS 3-Digit Industry Specific Estimates, May 2010
511 Publishing Industries, except Internet, 758,090, 28.0%
512 Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries, 371,450, 13.7%
515 Broadcasting (except internet), 292,010, 10.8%
517 Telecommunications, 909,780, 33.6%
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