Month: September 2020

China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s application to become an observer at WIPO

Posted on by Thiru

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On Wednesday, 23 September 2020, China blocked Wikimedia Foundation’s application to become an observer at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). At this week’s General Assembly, the WIPO was poised to accept the applications of thirteen organization including Wikimedia Foundation…

Upcoming Sept 30 – TACD Webinar: Controlled Digital Lending in a Pandemic

Posted on by Claire Cassedy

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(Update: A video recording of the full event is available on our YouTube channel. For a copy of the Zoom chat during the event, please reach out to the contact email below.) On Wednesday September 30, 2020, the Transatlantic Consumer…

General Statement of Knowledge Ecology International – Sixty-First Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO (WIPO Assemblies)

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General Statement of Knowledge Ecology International – Sixty-First Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of the Member States of WIPO (WIPO Assemblies) Agenda item 5 – General Statements 21 September 2020 In relation to the COVID-19 response, Knowledge Ecology International…

WIPO Side event: Appraising Progress of WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP)

Posted on by Thiru

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DATE: Tuesday, 22 September 2020 TIME: 18:00 CEST to 19:00 CEST CONVENER: Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) REGISTRATION: Please contact thiru [at] keionline.org On occasion of the 61st Series of Meetings of the WIPO General Assembly, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) is…

DARPA letter to KEI confirming investigation of Moderna for failure to report government funding in patent applications

Posted on by James Love

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On Friday, September 18, 2020, KEI received a letter from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) confirming that the agency was investigating Moderna for failure to report government funding in patent applications. The Financial Times and other outlets had…

Joint letter to WHO formally requesting the R&D Observatory to play a more relevant role in the COVID-19 response

Posted on by Thiru

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On Friday, 28 August 2020, six groups including Corporación Innovarte, Health Action International, Knowledge Ecology International, Medicines Law & Policy, Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation, and Wemos wrote a joint letter to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Chief Scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan,…

KEI and UACT Comments to NIH on Proposed Exclusive License to Connectyx

Posted on by Claire Cassedy

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On Friday September 11, 2020, Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) and the Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment (UACT) submitted comments to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding the “Prospective Grant of an Exclusive Patent License: Anti-CD56 as an Antibody-Drug Conjugate…

Trump’s September 12, 2020 Executive Order on Lowering Drug Prices

Posted on by James Love

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Finally there is a text available, and Trump’s Executive Order on international reference pricing is a lot less than promised. Does nothing for most people and nothing at all right now. The operative parts of the Executive Order are limited…

Senator Durbin’s letters to vaccine manufacturers

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Senator Durbin has written letters to vaccine manufacturers Moderna, AstraZeneca, Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Novavax, and Janssen/Johnson & Johnson, asking eight detailed questions. Question 8 asked about federal funding of the vaccine, government rights in patents, and the by Bayh-Dole…

BARDA is investigating Moderna’s failures to disclose BARDA funding in patent applications

Posted on by James Love

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(More on Moderna here: https://www.keionline.org/moderna) KEI received a letter Dr. Gary Disbrow, the Acting Director of BARDA, just before noon today. BARDA2KEI.Moderna.Patent.Disclosures.20200903 The BARDA investigation follows the announcement on Saturday that DARPA was also investigating DARPA’s failures to disclose DARPA…