Timeline of privileges regarding the commercialization and use of knowledge. Part 1: before 1980
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This is work in progress, and is part of a larger project on timelines. This particular timeline is unfinished, and may contain errors.
Draft
This is work in progress, and is part of a larger project on timelines. This particular timeline is unfinished, and may contain errors.
On Friday, 24 September 2010, the United States delivered the following intervention on agenda item 28(i) on the Information Reports on the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore.
The USPTO has a federal register notice out asking for public comment on a welcome new initiative, modeled after the FDA priority review voucher, to create incentives to license patents for humanitarian uses. The initiative is set out here: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/pdf/2010-23395.pdf.
New: Hepatitis Timeline: http://goo.gl/83sp9J
New: Fabry TImeline:
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This is work in progress, and is part of a larger project on timelines. This particular timeline is unfinished, and may contain errors.
USPTO’s $4 million of Congressionally Mandated Spending on intellectual property initiatives, for fy 2009
This is the USPTO list of grants for fy 2009. The $4 million in grants were used to influence global norms on IPR policy.
A new round of grants will go out soon for fy 2010, involving another $4 million of Congressionally Mandated Spending on Intellectual Property Initiatives (IPI).
Part 1 of our notes on the August 25, 2010 version of the ACTA consolidated text, covering pages 1-9 of the text, are available here. These notes cover the remainder of August 25, 2010 ACTA text, from pages 10 to 29.
KEI has obtained a copy of the August 25, 2010 version of the ACTA consolidated negotiating text. This is Part 1 of our initial notes on the document.
(Part 2 is available here.)
(revised September 9, 2010)
The preamble in the August, 25, 2010 text includes 10 paragraphs, of which only 3 do not have brackets.
Brussels, 5 October 1998
1/D/3/BW D (98)
A pdf copy of the resolution is attached to this page.
THE FIFTY-SECOND WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY
WHA52.19
Agenda Item 13
May 24, 1999
The Fifty-second World Health Assembly,
Recalling resolution WHA39.27, WHA41.16, WHA43.20, WHA45.27, WHA47.12, WHA47.13, WHA47.16, WHA47.17, and WHA49.14;
Having considered the report of the Director-General on the revised drug strategy[1];