FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 5, 2018 kim.treanor@keionline.org (202)-332-2670 Six organizations are asking Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to take actions to lower the price of eteplirsen, a drug sold under the brand name Exondys 51, to… Continue Reading
Update: In a letter dated March 28, 2018, Robert Firestone wrote to the NIH on behalf of Penn, stating that the NIH grants were infrastructure grants that did not give the NIH rights in the inventions. 2018-03-28-Penn-Response-juxtapid-Rader On March 19,… Continue Reading
In a resolution dated the 9th of March, 2018, Minister Carmen Castillo Taucher of Chile’s Ministry of Health has announced that there are sufficient public health reasons to support a compulsory license on medicines for the hepatitis C virus (HCV),… Continue Reading
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
(More on this topic here: https://www.keionline.org/orphan-drugs and here.) 1980 April 17, 1980. Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman introduces H.R.7089 (96th Congress) – “A bill to establish an office in the National Institutes of Health to assist in the development of drugs for… Continue Reading
Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA-17) was joined by 17 other members of Congress in calling upon Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to issue a compulsory license on patents for medications to treat hepatitis C, by exercising 28… Continue Reading
https://www.keionline.org/?s=injunction Selected U.S. Patent Injunction Cases 2017. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. APPLE, INC., Dist. Court, WD Wisconsin 2017 At the end of the day, the court concludes that WARF has not met its burden of demonstrating irreparable harm, and… 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
The Cámara de Diputados of the Chilean Congress has overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on the President to advance the compulsory licensing request on HCV drugs made in March 2017 by patients, advocates including Innovarte NGO, and elected officials. The resolution, Number… Continue Reading
On Tuesday, 12 December 2017, Knowledge Ecology International delivered the following intervention at the 27th session of the WIPO Standing Committee of the Law of Patents during discussions of a work program on patents and health. Knowledge Ecology International reiterates… Continue Reading