On March 8, 2018, USTR and the interagency committee on the Special 301 held a hearing. KEI was one of the groups testifying. More on this process here: https://keionline.org/ustr/special301 I began our oral testimony discussing President Trump’s promise, during the… Continue Reading
KEI Briefing Note 2018:1. Bayh-Dole Obligations to Disclose Federal Funding Government oversight of under-reporting U.S. federal rights in patents. 1994. June 15, 1994, Inspector General Report to HHS on the under-reporting of federal funding of inventions at the Scripps Research… Continue Reading
Orphan Drug Timeline Data from Orphan Drug Tax Credit 2017. What does the Orphan Drug Tax Credit tell us about the Costs of Clinical Trials? Bill of Health. November 15. From 2010 to 2016, the average qualifying trial costs claimed… Continue Reading
On Tuesday February 20, 2018, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved the Celgene acquisition of Juno, without requiring divestitures. The European Commission did not review the merger. KEI’s February 16, 2018 letter opposing the acquisition is available here. The following… Continue Reading
USDOJ 2017 UPDATE OF THE ANTITRUST GUIDELINES FOR THE LICENSING OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STANDARD SETTING AND COMPETITION November 8, 2012 COMPETITION, INNOVATION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, April 26, 2012 CHAPTER 6 : COMPETITIVE ISSUES REGARDING PRACTICES THAT EXTEND THE MARKET POWER… Continue Reading
You also can search for our most recent work on chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) technologies using our tags here, or via our general search engine here. NIH CRADAs involving antigen receptor technologies. See this sheet. CAR patent litigation… Continue Reading
You also can search for our most recent work on clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technologies using our tags here, or via our general search engine here. KEI Events regarding CRISPR 2019: Expert Workshop at Brocher Foundation- An… Continue Reading
We have several pages related specifically to the U.S. Bayh-Dole Act here. KEI efforts to address pricing and other public interest issues in more than 30 different NIH licensing cases, involving both patents and data rights, are here: http://keionline.org/nih-licenses KEI… Continue Reading
Below are a few links to pages that show our work in specific fields (note: this list is currently under construction and will be continually updated): Innovation and access to medical technologies Cancer Drugs Coronavirus/COVID-19 Orphan/Rare diseases A standalone page… Continue Reading
(More on government funded inventions here) 2015 2015: Virotas Biopharmaceuticals. KEI and Public Citizen ask NIH for safeguards in license for HCV patents, April 14, 2015. 2015: NIH refuses to give information about principals in company seeking exclusive license to… Continue Reading