Kazakhstan Time-Line 1989- 2000 1949 The Soviet Union conducts a successful atomic test in Kazakhstan, and the nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the U.S. begins. 1949. The Ulba Metallurgy Plant is established, and is referred to ask… Continue Reading
2000 May 20, 2000 – WHO passes WHA 53.17, which calls for research, prevention, collaboration, and capacity building to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases 2002 April 13, 2002 –The Salt Institute and other industry lobbying groups release their first comments… Continue Reading
Other KEI timelines. KEI web page on WIPO broadcasting treaty negotiation. 1961 Concluded at Rome on 26 October 1961 in Rome, Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations 1997 28-30 April 1997, World Symposium… Continue Reading
PhRMA and BIO have both requested that the US Trade Representative place the European Union on its watch list in the 2018 Special 301 Report. The Special 301 Report is a yearly review by the US Trade Representative of the… Continue Reading
1994 1994: Pharmaceutical Drugs, Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health: A Consumer Perspective from the United States, May 12. A discussion of how R&D mandates can ensure innovation does not suffer when prices lowering policies are embraced. 1996 1996: Comments… Continue Reading
Signatures to the petition to President Obama, regarding transparency of ACTA Back to the petition US signatories Knowledge Ecology International David Bollier, Onthecommons.org U.S. Public Interest Research Group Essential Action Health Action International (HAI) Global Public Citizen Ellen Miller, Sunlight… Continue Reading
On February 9, 2018, the Trump Administration released a paper by the Counsel of Economic Advisers (CEA) on drug pricing. The paper on pricing was thought to have been led by economist Tomas Philipson, appointed to the CEA by President… Continue Reading
Knowledge is essential for so many human activities and values, including freedom, the exercise of political power, and economic, social and personal development. Patents, copyright laws and other regulations and economic systems that concern the creation, management and governance of… Continue Reading
The following are cases in the United States wherein compulsory licensing as a limitation on the remedies for infringement (Trips Article 44 cases) relating to medical technologies. 2012: Conceptus, Inc. v. Hologic, Inc. Conceptus, inc. filed a patent infringement case… Continue Reading
(More on compulsory licensing here.) This is a non-exhaustive set of provisions in US statutes that are used to for non-voluntary use of patented inventions. 28 U.S.C. 1498 – Patent and copyright cases (a) Whenever an invention described in and… Continue Reading