KEI has received Pfizer and USTR emails and a Pfizer briefing memo to USTR from September 2017, asking the USTR to block a Malaysia Requirement to disclose drug prices. The documents were obtained under a Freedom of Information request to… Continue Reading
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) provisions on the term of protection of test data for new pharmaceutical products has received considerable attention, and in some cases, some inaccurate reports on the agreement have conflated the term for test data protection… Continue Reading
Today Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), the Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment (UACT), Health GAP, Social Security Works (SSW), People of Faith for Access to Medicines (PFAM), Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) and Dean Baker filed comments to the National… Continue Reading
(Update: The NIH provided a response to our comments on July 16, 2018) Below are comments sent by KEI, UACT and HealthGap, regarding a proposed exclusive license to Morphiex Biotherapeutics, an entity for which little is known. The license concerns… Continue Reading
These are provisions on the right to be forgotten in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). (KEI does not support the right to be forgotten). http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679&from=EN REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of… Continue Reading
There is a specialized web page on delinkage here: http://delinkage.org De-linkage can be defined in the negative, by saying that the R&D funding should not be tied to the price of the product. Progressive de-linkage means that governments implement reforms… Continue Reading
See Kazakhstan Timelines for: 1990-2000 , 2001, 2002, 2003 , 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007. 2001 January. Ted Turner founds the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), co-chaired by Turner and former Senator Sam Nunn. 2001 January 25. Michael Dobbs story in Washington… Continue Reading
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
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
This does not yet have links to the TPP11 negotiations and agreement, after the US left. The May 11, 2015 consolidated text on the Intellectual Property Chapter of the TPP, with country positions. August 4, 2015 Press Release The May… Continue Reading