On February 6, 2024, KEI submitted comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) regarding the Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering the Exercise of March-In Rights (88 FR 85593). This set of comments outlined that the draft… Continue Reading
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a Request for Information on December 8, 2023 regarding the “Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering the Exercise of March-In Rights” (88 FR 85593). The request follows a nearly year-long interagency… Continue Reading
KEI submitted comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in response to the Request for Information regarding the “Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering the Exercise of March-In Rights” (88 FR 85593) concerning Bayh-Dole rights and the… Continue Reading
On December 8, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a Request for Information regarding the “Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering the Exercise of March-In Rights” (88 FR 85593). Today KEI submitted comments to NIST regarding… Continue Reading
On 25 January 2024, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered this statement on WHO’s work in health emergencies. There is an ongoing need to make investments in countermeasures to tackle possible pandemics. The current systems of incentives for drug development are… Continue Reading
On December 19, 2023, three prostate cancer patients, Robert Sachs, Clare Love and Eric Sawyer, sent a letter to Secretary Becerra asking that he act on their appeal of the rejection of their petition, asking the federal government to use… Continue Reading
For journalists writing about march-in rights today, this is how it works. If you get money from the federal government for the R&D leading to an invention, there is typically a contract that gives the funder certain rights in any… Continue Reading
On Monday, 27 November 2023, Brazil delivered the following general statement at WIPO’s Thirty-First Session of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property. The statement was delivered by Ambassador Guilherme Patriota, one of the architects of WIPO’s Development Agenda. General… Continue Reading
On November 3, 2023, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) and Public Citizen (PC) submitted joint comments to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding the “Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent Commercialization License: Human Monoclonal Antibodies That Broadly Target Coronaviruses” (88 FR… Continue Reading
INB 7 Written statement by Knowledge Ecology International November 2023 The current draft of the pandemic accord includes provisions on limitations and exceptions to intellectual property rights that while well intentioned, are problematic. Parties do not need to refer to… Continue Reading