Your tax dollars at work. Obama administration funding of pro-right holder NGO work on IPR protection, fy 2009

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).

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European Commission October 5, 1998 note memorandum on the WHO Revised Drug Strategy negotiation

 

European Commission (DG 1) note on the WHO’s Revised Drug Stategy

 


EUROPEAN COMMISSION

DIRECTORATE GENERAL 1
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: COMMERCIAL POLICY AND RELATIONS WITH NORTH AMERICA. THE
FAR EAST, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

 

Directorate D -Sectoral trade questions, market access
New technologies, Intellectual property, public procurement

Brussels, 5 October 1998
1/D/3/BW D (98)

 

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WHA 52.19, the Revised Drug Strategy

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

Revised Drug Strategy

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];

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May 27, 1998 Department of State cable: REVISED DRUG STRATEGY AT W.H.O.: ATMOSPHERICS OF THE DEBATE, AND RECOMMENDED PLAN OF ACTION

CONFIDENTIAL RELEASED IN FULL
CONFIDENTIAL PTQ1906

PAGE 01 GENEVA 03470 01 OF 09 271621Z ACTION 10-00

425261 271705Z /38 O 271615Z MAY 98

FM USMISSION GENEVA
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 6208 INFO IO COLLECTIVE AMEMBASSY LONDON
AMEMBASSY BRASILIA
AMEMBASSY BUENOS AIRES AMEMBASSY PRETORIA AMEMBASSY HARARE
AMEMBASSY LILONGWE AMEMBASSY LUSAKA
AMEMBASSY WINDHOEK AMEMBASSY BERN
AMEMBASSY CANBERRA
AMEMBASSY STOCKHOLM AMEMBASSY TOKYO AMEMBASSY OSLO
AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS AMEMBASSY BONN
AMEMBASSY OTTAWA AMEMBASSY CAIRO CDC ATLANTA

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