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The Center for American Progress hosted a video conference of Dr. Howard Dean talking about Health Care reform on Tueday. The video is on the web here. On this one hour program, Howard Dean spends a little over 3 minutes responding to allegations that he is a “shill” for BIO, on the issue of biosimilars.

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Kira Alvarez is the Deputy Assistant USTR for Intellectual Property Enforcement, and the chief US negotiator for ACTA. According to her Linkedin bio, as late as October 2008, right before the election, she was the Time Warner Vice President for Global Public Policy, and before that, she was a lobbyist for Ely Lilly, the pharmaceutical company. Continue Reading →

Public Health and Consumer Groups respond to 2009 USTR Special 301 Report

Essential Action, AU Program on Information Justice and IP, Knowledge Ecology International, Forum on Democracy and Trade, Health GAP and Oxfam America

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | April 30, 2009
Contact Info for each organization below with each quotation

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The USTR report in now out, here.

The following are KEI comments:

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The following are some of the “tweets” on the new USTR 301 list:

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Judd Gregg will reportedly be appointed as Sec. of Commerce today.

Here a few data points on pharmaceutical issues.

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This is an exchange from the ip-health list, that will be updated as the conversation continues, about the impact of the HIF on the generic drug industry developing countries.

—– Original Message —–
From: “James Love”
To: “Ip-health”

Cc: “Thomas Pogge” “Aidan Hollis”
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:15 PM
Subject: impact of the HIF on generic industry in developing countries

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In a letter to the Australian delegation to the WIPO SCCR, Vision Australia expressed its support for the World Blind Union’s proposal for a WIPO Treaty for Improved Access for Blind, Visually Impaired and other Reading Disabled Persons. The text of the letter is available here:

https://www.keionline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=212

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