UPDATE: On Wednesday, 15 August 2018, WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus provided a response to the open letter on the Roadmap on Access to Medicines and Vaccines 2019-2023. The Director-General’s response can be found here: WHO DG letter to… Continue Reading
On 26 September 2018, the United Nations’ General Assembly will convene the first high-level meeting on tuberculosis; the theme of the meeting is “United to end tuberculosis: an urgent global response to a global epidemic”. In preparation for the United… Continue Reading
At around 16h35 on Thursday, 12 July 2018, the WIPO Secretariat distributed the final text of the future work program of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP). The final text can be found here: http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/scp/en/scp_28/scp_28_11.pdf The new… Continue Reading
Geneva 15h56 On Thursday, 12 July 2018, at the 28th session of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) countries are negotiating over the mandate of WIPO’s future work program on a suite of issues including: 1) Exceptions… Continue Reading
On 11 July 2018, Knowledge Ecology International delivered the following statement on patents and health at the 28th session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP). Statement of Knowledge Ecology International Agenda item 7 – Patents and… Continue Reading
On Monday, 9 July 2018, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) made the following statement on exceptions and limitations to patent rights. KEI made the following proposal: In terms of future work on this item on exceptions and limitations to patent rights,… Continue Reading
On 9 July 2018, Indonesia delivered this opening statement on behalf of the Asia & the Pacific Group at the 28th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP). Opening Statement by the Republic of Indonesia… Continue Reading
In May 2017, the 70th World Health Assembly passed a cancer resolution (WHA70.12, Cancer prevention and control in the context of an integrated approach). At the time KEI provided the following commentary on the cancer resolution: On Tuesday, May 30,… Continue Reading
*(The author thanks Vitor Ido for his extensive notes of the 1st round of informal consultations held on 20 June 2018). On Thursday, 28 June 2018, the delegations of Brazil, Colombia, Mozambique, Portugal, and Thailand submitted a draft resolution on… Continue Reading
In June 2018, the European Union (EU) delivered the following statement on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest at the WTO TRIPS Council. The EU voiced a specific concern over a reference in the WTO submission by China and South… Continue Reading