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 endeavors… Continue Reading
The following PDF file includes several email exchanges between Pfizer and USTR regarding Colombia’s accession to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Pfizer proposed several conditions it wanted Colombia to agree to before the US would withdraw objections… Continue Reading
This will be discussed next week at the SCCR 37 Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) Thirty-Seventh Session Geneva, November 26- 30, 2018 PROPOSAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON THE SCOPE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF RIGHTS, WIPO… Continue Reading
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) provisions on the term of protection of test data for new pharmaceutical products has received considerable attention, and in some cases, some inaccurate reports on the agreement have conflated the term for test data protection… Continue Reading
KEI’s release of TPP Intellectual Property Chapter – May 11, 2015 Draft Link to full text of the IP Chapter: /tpp/11may2015-ip-text 2015:2 KEI TPP Briefing Note: The Evolution of the Article on Patents/Patentable Subject Matter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Intellectual… Continue Reading
The text of the proposed new U.S.-Canada-Mexico trade agreement is out, and available here from USTR. The agreement includes 34 chapters, 11 agreement annexes and 12 side letters. This is the first time the public has seen the text, even… Continue Reading
The panel in a WTO dispute regarding Australia and plain packaging of tobacco products reached the conclusion that 2001 Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health has the status of an agreement that has modified the interpretation of… Continue Reading
On September 18, 2018, negotiations closed on what may be the final draft of the “Political Declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.” The Declaration addresses the measures UN… Continue Reading
On Monday morning, 10 September 2018, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) delivered the following oral statement at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Informal Discussion of the Roadmap Report on Access to Medicines and Vaccines 2019–2023. The morning session provided UN agencies,… Continue Reading
This is the July 26, 2018 draft of the UN declaration on NCDs. NCD-Draft-co-facilitators-text-26July2018 [The earlier July 16, 2018 draft is available here: NCD-POL-DECLARATION-16JUL2018] To nobody’s surprise, the July 26, 2018 version is very weak. In the July 26, 2018… Continue Reading