Year: 2019

SCCR 39: Selected Good Statements regarding a Bad Idea (at WIPO)

Posted on by Manon Ress

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Today at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) started the discussion on the broadcasters’ treaty. According to the Chair, at the last General Assembly, the Committee received “a mandate to continue making progress towards convening a…

NGO Objections to the Proposed WIPO Broadcasting Treaty

Posted on by James Love

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SCCR39-broadcasting-treaty-NGO letter-23Oct2019 23 October 2019 Re: Objections to the Proposed WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Dear delegates to SCCR 39, We oppose the Chair’s proposal for a broadcast treaty. The proposal would give broadcasters effectively perpetual rights over content that they do…

NGO letter to WIPO negotiators, regarding proposal to sidetrack WIPO work on copyright limitations and exceptions

Posted on by James Love

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NGO-letter-on-proposed-LnE-agenda-change-SCCR39-10.21 Chair-proposal-NEXT STEPS 10-21-19 October 21, 2019 RE: Chair Proposal on Next Steps for Agenda Items 5 and 6 Dear Delegates at WIPO SCCR 39: We are shocked by the attached proposal of the Chair to change the title of…

SCCR 39: Opening statement of Knowledge Ecology International

Posted on by Thiru

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On Monday, 21 October 2019, Knowledge Ecology International delivered the following opening statement at the 39th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR 39). The discussions on limitations and exceptions, and the studies commissioned by…

KEI Comments to the NIH on Exclusive License to Opsis Therapeutics for Retinal Cell Therapies

Posted on by Claire Cassedy

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On October 18, 2019, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) submitted comments to the Federal Register Notice for the “Prospective Grant of an Exclusive Patent License: Compositions, Devices and Processes for Production and Delivery of Cell Grafts of Manufactured Retinal Pigment Epithelium…

KEI and UACT Comments to NIH on License to T-Cell Therapy for Cancer to Ziopharm Oncology

Posted on by Claire Cassedy

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(Update: The NIH provided a response to our comments on November 15, 2019) On Friday October 18, 2019, Knowledge Ecology International and the Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment (UACT) submitted comments on the “Prospective Grant of an Exclusive Patent License:…

CBO score of HR 3 has an interesting estimate of the trade-off between the cost of innovation, when financed through high prices.

Posted on by James Love

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On October 11, 2019, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) sent a letter to Representative Frank Pallone Jr., Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, describing a preliminary estimate of the effects of Title I of H.R. 3 bill.…

KEI and UACT Comments to NIH on License in AAV Vectors to Generation Bio and Spark Therapeutics

Posted on by Claire Cassedy

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On Friday October 11, 2019, Knowledge Ecology International and the Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment (UACT) submitted comments to the Federal Register notice (84 FR 51171) for the “Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License: Capsid-Free AAV Vectors, Compositions, and Methods…

WTO TRIPS Council: Submission of South Africa on R&D Costs and Pricing of Medicines and Health Technologies

Posted on by Thiru

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On Friday, 4 October 2019, the World Trade Organization (WTO) published a submission by the Republic of South Africa on “R&D Costs and Pricing of Medicines and Health Technologies” (IP/C/W/659). In this paper, South Africa requested the WTO TRIPS Council…

WIPO General Assembly 2019: Statement of the United States on the SCCR work program

Posted on by James Love

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This is the statement the United States of America delivered on behalf of the US government at the WIPO General Assembly, on the work program for the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR). The most detailed discussion concerned…