On Agenda item 11.7 – Access to medicines and vaccines, KEI offers the following comments on the transparency resolution. 1. Transparency should not be controversial. Policy makers and the public need to have better evidence in order to support policies… Continue Reading
On April 30, 2019, KEI issued a memorandum to Congress concerning recent proposed measures to cap drug price increases and to increase the transparency of pharmaceutical research and development costs. Congress is currently considering several bills that touch on these… Continue Reading
In an order dated April 11, 2019, Judge Peter J. Messitte granted the NIH’s motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction in the lawsuit filed by KEI, which appealed an NIH decision to grant an exclusive license on a CAR… Continue Reading
Open letter on NIST Draft Green Paper on Bayh-Dole Act Policies and Regulations 5 April 2019 FMI: Claire Cassedy, claire.cassedy@keionlineorg +1.202.332.2670 Washington, 5 April 2019 – Eleven non-governmental organizations have sent a letter to members of the US Congress, highlighting… Continue Reading
On Monday, 1 April 2019, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered the following oral statement to the Open Session of the 22nd Meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines. The program for the open… Continue Reading
This timeline provides copies of official documents not published before about the U.S. pressures in the Dominican Republic during the congressional debates that led to the adoption of the TRIPS-implementing legislation Law 20-00. These documents were obtained via FOIA requests.… Continue Reading
On March 6, 2019, 83 civil society organizations and 20 individuals asked delegates to the World Health Assembly (WHA) to support a proposed resolution on “Improving the transparency of markets for drugs, vaccines and other health-related technologies.” A copy of… Continue Reading
PhRMA’s Special 301 submissions are part of a yearly ritual to shape the “Special 301” Report, an annual review of the global state of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement, conducted by the Office of the United States Trade… Continue Reading
On 1 February 2019, Dr. Giulia Grillo, Italy’s Minister of Health, sent a letter to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), with an attached “first draft” of a resolution on “Improving the transparency… Continue Reading
On 1 February 2019, the World Trade Organization (WTO) published a submission (IP/C/W/651)by South Africa to the TRIPS Council on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest: Promoting Public Health Through Competition Law and Policy. The South African paper endeavored to… Continue Reading