Organizations Flyers Rights, the largest airline passenger non-profit organization, with over 60,000 members, that has intensively worked on the issue of legroom – including petitioning before the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). News Articles 2018. September 14. Kendall Creighton. A La Plane. FlyersRight 2018.… Continue Reading
DATE: December 10, 2018 Intent to Testify and Testimony Summary/Comments on Negotiating Objectives for a U.S.-European Union Trade Agreement (USEUTA) Luis Gil Abinader. Knowledge Ecology International 1621 Connecticut Avenue, Northwest, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20009. Phone number +1.202.332.2670. Federal Register… Continue Reading
Below you will find the daily calendars of US Trade Representative Michael Froman from 2013 to 2016. These schedules were obtained by KEI via FOIA request to USTR. 2013 Calendar USTR Michael Froman 2014 Calendar USTR Michael Froman 2015 Calendar… Continue Reading
The following PDF file includes several email exchanges between Pfizer and USTR regarding Colombia’s accession to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Pfizer proposed several conditions it wanted Colombia to agree to before the US would withdraw objections… Continue Reading
On 9 November 2018, Brazil delivered the following statement on IP and competition policy at the WTO TRIPS Council under agenda item 13 on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest: Promoting Public Health Through Competition Law and Policy (an item… Continue Reading
KEI has filed a pre-hearing statement for the International Trade Commission, “On the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement: Likely Impact on the U.S. Economy and on Specific Industry Sectors Investigation (No.TPA-105-003)” KEI-Pre-hearing-statement-ITC-USMCA-30Oct2018 The submission covers the following topoics: Patentable subject matter for… Continue Reading
UPDATE: In November 2018, South Africa notified the WTO Secretariat that Brazil and India requested to co-sponsor this submission on Promoting Public Health Through Competition Law and Policy. On 29 October 2018, the World Trade Organization (WTO) published a submission… 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
On 26 September 2018, at the 2018 WIPO General Assembly, the United States of America made the following intervention on the WIPO Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations. World Intellectual Property Organization Assemblies of the Member States September 24… Continue Reading
KEI’s release of TPP Intellectual Property Chapter – May 11, 2015 Draft Link to full text of the IP Chapter: /tpp/11may2015-ip-text 2015:2 KEI TPP Briefing Note: The Evolution of the Article on Patents/Patentable Subject Matter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Intellectual… Continue Reading