Jan 28 & 29, 2008 KEI & UNU-MERIT Medical Prize Fund Workshop
Agenda for the Maastricht Meeting on Medical Innovation Prizes
Official Website for the Meeting on Medical Innovation Prizes
KEI / UNU-MERIT Prize for the Best Paper on Monetary Prizes to Stimulare Medical R&D
Notes on a panel discussion on IP and free trade with government and industry representatives
A Panel Discussion on Policy Approaches to Intellectual Property Enforcement and the Impact on Trade Agreements
Organized by the Property Rights Alliance, this event was hosted by the Intellectual Property Caucus and sponsored by Rep. Tom Feeney.
Date: 12:00-1:30pm October 4, 2007
Venue: Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC
Attendance: Congressional staff, industry representatives, other interested parties.
WIPO: Under Siege?
Walking around the marbled corridors of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) during its 43rd General Assembly, one cannot help but feel a palpable sense of an Organization under siege. Heightened security detail, ostensibly for the protection of the institution and the assembled delegates, was referred by one insider as justification for WIPO maintaining the current levels for patent filing fees.
NGO Statement on Patent Ruling
Tuesday, 07 August 2007
Contacts:
Lawyers Collective: Anand Grover: +91.9820184788; Chan Park: + 91.9899452377
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MSF Press Release on Indian Court Ruling
Médecins Sans Frontières
India: Leena Menghaney + 91.98.11.36.54.12
Switzerland: Sheila Shettle + 41.79.293.0270, + 41.22.849.8403
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India
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Patent application for atazanavir denied:
August 16, 2007. Indian Patent Office rejects application for patent foratazanavir. Click here for the notice.
Novartis challenges Patent Act:
2007 – Kazakhstan Timeline
2007 January 30. Nazarbayev meets with Merkel in Berlin.
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/01/B1ADD498-6C1A-438F-BBF6-724BB1B404D4.html
2006 – Kazakhstan Timeline
2006 January 31. Financial Post on UrAsia IPO and deals with KazAtomProm
http://lists.miningwatch.ca/pipermail/news/2006-January/000384.html