KEI letter to USTR Katherine Tai regarding WTO negotiations on therapeutics and diagnostics for COVID 19
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KEI Briefing Note 2022:3 Selected differences between Article 30, 31 and 44 of the WTO TRIPS Agreement as regards non-voluntary use of patented inventions
The June 17, 2022 WTO Ministerial Decision on the TRIPS Agreement
Updated Friday, 17 June 2022, 11:30 AM Geneva time. Early Friday morning, 17 June 2022, the WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference (chaired by Timur Suleymenov, Kazakshstan), adopted a Ministerial Decision on the TRIPS Agreement (WT/MIN(22)/W/15/Rev.2). The text can be found here.… Continue Reading
WTO Communication from the Chairman of Council for TRIPS on May 3, 2022
This new TRIPS text from the WTO, it’s generally the same as the earlier leaked text, but now with two brackets, one on the definition of eligible countries and the second one regarding requirement to list each patent in non-voluntary… Continue Reading
PhRMA targets WHO, WIPO, WTO, UNDP, UNCTAD, Unitaid, and WTO in comments to the USTR’s Special 301 report for 2022
On 13 December 2021, the Office of United States Trade Representative (USTR) posted the following request for public comment in relation to its 2022 Special 301 Review: Identification of Countries Under Section 182 of the Trade Act of 1974 noting… Continue Reading
WTO accession agreements and a TRIPS waiver for COVID 19 (such as China’s six years of exclusive rights in regulatory test data)
On October 1, 2001, the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a “Report of the Working Party on the Accession of China.” The 180 page document (WT/ACC/CHN/49) included a discussion of the views of “some members” of the WTO regarding the… Continue Reading
Antigua and Barbuda notified the WTO of their intent to import products using compulsory licenses
On 12 May 2021, Antigua and Barbuda notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) of their general intent to use the compulsory license system provided under article 31bis of the amended Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). This… Continue Reading
The European Union’s riposte to the WTO TRIPS waiver
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) has obtained an document authored by the European Union which outlines a counter-proposal to the proposed TRIPS waiver. It is expected that the European Union will formally submit its counter-proposal to the World Trade Organization (WTO)… Continue Reading
21 May 2021: 62 WTO members submit revised proposal on a waiver from certain provisions of the TRIPS Agreement for the Prevention, Containment, and Treatment of COVID-19
On Friday, 21 May 2021, 62 WTO members (African Group, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Egypt, Eswatini, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kenya, the LDC Group, Maldives, Mozambique, Mongolia, Namibia, Pakistan, South Africa, Vanuatu, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Zimbabwe) submitted… Continue Reading
22 April 2021: South Africa raises the banner for text-based work on a WTO TRIPS waiver
On 22 April 2021 the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) TRIPS Council addressed the proposal for a waiver from certain provisions of the TRIPS Agreement for the prevention, containment and treatment of COVID-19 (IP/C/W/669) in an informal session of the TRIPS… Continue Reading