Original page: http://www.cptech.org/ip/wto/p6/eu12052005.pdf Letter from CPTech referenced available here: https://www.keionline.org/32641 MARKOS KYPRIANOU PETER MANDELSON Member of the European Commission … Continue Reading
Original page: http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/tamiflu/christinelagarde.html Christine LAGARDE asked to change EU “opt-out” of 30 August 2003 decision regarding imports of generic medicines manufactured under a compulsory license To: Christine LAGARDE, Ministre déléguée au Commerce extérieur, France From: Manon Ress and James Love,… Continue Reading
R 122031Z AUG 05 – August 12, 2005FM AMEMBASSY BRASILIATO SECSTATE WASHDC 2501SUBJECT: Brazil’s National Health Council Recommends Compulsory Licensing of Antiretrovirals 1. SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED 2. (SBU) Summary. Adding to the tension surrounding negotiations between the ministry of… Continue Reading
R 281104Z JUN 05 – June 28, 2005FM AMEMBASSY BRASILIATO SECSTATE WASHDC 1902SUBJECT: BRAZIL GIVES ABBOTT TEN DAYS BEFORE BREAKING PATENT 1. (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED 2. (U) Summary. On Friday June 24, the GoB announced a declaration of “public… Continue Reading
R 031944Z JUN 05 – June 3, 2005FROM: American Embassy BrasiliaTO: Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.SUBJECT: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH U.S. PHARMACEUTICAL FIRMS THREATENED WITH LICENSING 1. (SBU) Summary. On May 24 and 25, U.S. pharmaceutical companies Gilead Sciences, Abbott Laboratories,… Continue Reading
This is a letter, dated July 22, 2004, by six consumer groups, asking Robert Zoellick and other members of the Bush Administration, to change US trade policy, so that research and development, rather than intellectual property rights, were the focus.… Continue Reading
Sep 16, 2010 A New Trade Framework for Global Healthcare R&D[1] Access to Medicines and the Financing of Innovations in Health Care Workshop Hosted by the Program on Science, Technology, and Global Development, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, and… Continue Reading
Original: Page 1 – http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/eu/lamy2tacd20mar2002-p1.jpg Page 2 – http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/eu/lamy2tacd20mar2002-p2.jpg Note by James Love on April 1, 2002 via IP-Health email list regarding the letter below (archived link of the note here): This these are scans of Pascal Lamy’s March 20… Continue Reading
Ralph Nader P.O. Box 19312 Washington, DC 20036 July 23, 2001 Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland Director-General World Health Organization Avenue Appia 20 1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland Dear Dr. Brundtland: It has been encouraging in recent years to see the WHO… Continue Reading
July 6, 2001 Mr. Ralph Nader P.O. Box 19312 Washington, D.C. 20036 Dear Mr. Nader: I am writing in response to the letter from you and your colleagues requesting that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant the… Continue Reading