On March 18, 2022, Pfizer filed a 45 page opposition to the KEI application for a compulsory license on Paxlovid patents in the Dominican Republican. This is the Pfizer filing, and KEI’s unofficial translation. Pfizer-opposition-DR-CL-18March2022.pdf Translation-Pfizer-opposition-KEI-CL-Paxlovid-18march2022.pdf The December 3, 2021… Continue Reading
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) filed comments with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on March 16, 2022 regarding the “Prospective Grant of an Exclusive Patent License: Development and Commercialization of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapies (CAR-T) That are Specific to… Continue Reading
See also the following essays in Medium: The proposed WTO agreement on intellectual property and COVID 19 vaccines should not require that authorizations of non-voluntary use of patents list all patents covered, Medium, March 17, 2022. The Quad WTO proposal… Continue Reading
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/USTR-2021-0021-0120 Trade related aspects of public goods Submission to USTR and the Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) James Love, KEI March 8, 2022 Introduction One can think of the economy as including both public and private goods, each valued by… Continue Reading
(More on this topic here: https://www.keionline.org/xtandi2021) On February 24, 2022, Senators Thom Tillis and Marsha Blackburn sent a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra (PDF copy). The letter refers to “petitions to march-in on a pharmaceutical product purely based on… Continue Reading
The World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) 42nd session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore (IGC) meets from 28 February 2022 to 4 March 2022. The focus of WIPO’s work this week is to finalize an… Continue Reading
On Tuesday, 1 March 2022, Knowledge Ecology International delivered the following statement at the 42nd session of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore. KEI would like some clarifications regarding how regimes proposed in the IGC… Continue Reading