R 131556Z – October 13, 2005FM AMEMBASSY BRAZILIATO SECSTATE WASHDC 3176SUBJECT: ABBOTT AND GOB REACH DEAL TO AVOID COMPULSORY LICENSE 1. SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED – PLEASE TREAT ACCORDINGLY 2. (U) Summary. On October 10, Abbott Laboratories and Brazil’s Ministry of… Continue Reading
P 011726Z SEP 05 –September 5, 2005FM AMEMBASSY BRASILIATO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2703SUBJECT: BRAZILIAN MINISTRY OF HEALTH SLOWS THE PACE ON COMPULSORY LICENSING 1. (SBU) Summary. On August 30, DCM, accompanied by selected members of Country Team, met with Ministry… Continue Reading
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R 031944Z JUN 05 – June 3, 2005FROM: American Embassy BrasiliaTO: Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH U.S. PHARMACEUTICAL FIRMS THREATENED WITH LICENSING 1. (SBU) Summary. On May 24 and 25, U.S. pharmaceutical companies Gilead Sciences, Abbott Laboratories,… Continue Reading
This is a letter, dated July 22, 2004, by six consumer groups, asking Robert Zoellick and other members of the Bush Administration, to change US trade policy, so that research and development, rather than intellectual property rights, were the focus.… Continue Reading
Sep 16, 2010 A New Trade Framework for Global Healthcare R&D[1] Access to Medicines and the Financing of Innovations in Health Care Workshop Hosted by the Program on Science, Technology, and Global Development, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, and… Continue Reading
Original page: http://www.cptech.org/ip/wto/p6/cptech08302003.html CPTech Statement on WTO Deal on Exports of Medicines August 30, 2003 “Today’s decision on the implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health puts the WTO into unchartered waters. The WTO… Continue Reading
Original page: http://www.cptech.org/ip/wto/p6/zoellick02102003.doc RECEIVED 24 FEB 2003 Executive Office of the President The United States Trade Representative Washington, DC 20508 February 10, 2003 Mr. James Love Co-Chair TACD IP-workinggroup TACD Secretariat 24 Highbury Crescent UK-London N5 1RXDear Mr. Love, Thank… Continue Reading
Original page: http://www.cptech.org/ip/wto/p6/lamy12172002.doc Pascal Lamy Rue de la Loi,… Continue Reading