Letter to Anne Yu, Director for Global Pandemic Preparedness, NSC, on negotiations for WHO pandemic agreement

This was sent via email today. Jamie ————— May 1, 2024 Anne Yu Director for Global Pandemic Preparedness Development, Global Health and Humanitarian Response, National Security Council Staff, Executive Office of the President Dear Anne Yu, I’m guessing you are… Continue Reading

The WHO Pandemic agreement, language on mutually agreed terms for technology transfer, and claims under investor-state dispute resolution (ISDS)

This is an annex to the document: KEI comments on six references to “mutually agreed terms” in the WHO pandemic agreement negotiating text: A/INB/9/3 Rev.1, 22 April 2024, which is available as a PDF here: KEI.MutuallyAgreedTerms.A_INB_9_3Rev1.22April2024draft Annex on Investor-State Dispute… Continue Reading

KEI comments on six references to “mutually agreed terms” in the WHO pandemic agreement negotiating text: A/INB/9/3 Rev.1, 22 April 2024

PDF version is available here: KEI.MutuallyAgreedTerms.A_INB_9_3Rev1.22April2024draft KEI comments on six references to “mutually agreed terms” in the WHO pandemic agreement negotiating text: A/INB/9/3 Rev.1, 22 April 2024 James Love Knowledge Ecology International April 28, 2024, revised April 29, 2024 Introduction… Continue Reading

The Article 13 Express: WHA 77.1 – WHO Pandemic Agreement

On Wednesday, 17 April 2024 at 15:25 CEST, the WHO secretariat circulated an advance, unedited English version of the proposed draft WHO Pandemic Agreement; the WHO secretariat also circulated the accompanying draft resolution, WHA77.1 WHO Pandemic Agreement. For KEI’s analysis… Continue Reading

Colombia’s birthday present to the World Trade Organization: a proposal to review the implementation of the TRIPS Agreement: Article 71.1

On 15 April 2024, the World Trade Organization (WTO) published a document, IP/C/W/712, entitled, Review of the implementation of the TRIPS Agreement: Article 71.1; this date marks 30 years after the establishment of the WTO. Colombia’s proposal can be found… Continue Reading

Request for CMS to provide a Bayh-Dole Section 202 license and a 28 USC 1498 authorization and consent to use three patents listed in the FDA Orange Book for the cancer drug enzalutamide

Letter from KEI, UACT and UAEM to Chiquita White Brooks-Lasure, Administrator of the Office of the Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, at HHS, asking that CMS to provide a Bayh-Dole Section 202 license and a 28 USC 1498… Continue Reading

WTO General Council (March 2024): Colombia’s intervention on TRIPS for Development: Post MC13 work on TRIPS-related Issues – Communication from Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt and India

On Friday, 22 March 2024, Ambassador Mauricio Alberto Bustamante Garcia, Permanent Mission of Colombia to the World Trade Organization (WTO) delivered the following statement at the WTO General Council in relation to the submission by Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, and India… Continue Reading

KEI Comments to the NIH License on Gene Therapy to Marble Therapeutics

Today Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) submitted comments to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding the “Prospective Grant of an Exclusive Patent License: Vaccine Augmented Adoptive Cell Therapy for the Treatment of Cancer” (89 FR 8438). The wordwide, exclusive license… Continue Reading