KEI Research Note 2007:5
Roger Bate: Eclectic booster of corporate views
The Wellcome Trust convened an “Opinion Formers Conference” on “Counterfeit Medicines: Perspectives and Action” on Monday 26 October 2009. Continue Reading
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US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) FOIA requests
- On September 2009, KEI made a first attempt to FOIA documents related to WIPO negotiations on copyright exceptions for person who are blind or have other disabilities.
September 30, 2009.
USPTO FOIA Officer
United States Patent and Trademark Office
PO Box 1450
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450
efoia@uspto.govDear FOIA Officer:
Humanitarian Uses of Patented Inventions
This note concerns two areas of policy concerning humanitarian uses of patents. (1), a recommended exception to patent rights for humanitarian uses, and (2), the licensing of patents for humanitarian uses. Both examples focus on access to essential medical technologies.… Continue Reading
Revolving Door
Sergio Marchi
Ambassador Marchi was the Chair of the WTO General Council during the negotiation on Doha Paragraph 6.
- Bio as co-chair of APCO Worldwide’s International Advisory Council.
- Here is the Source Watch page on APCO. APCO clients include these pharmaceutical and medical device firms:
- Immunex Corporation
United States Trade Representative (USTR) FOIA requests
Before (or after) reading these accounts of FOIA requests to USTR, you might also review the transparency memorandum issued by President Obama in January 2009.
The following are some recent FOIA requests for USTR:
Proposal for Treaty of Access to Knowledge (May 10, 2005 Draft)
The following is the text that was prepared in 2005 as a
possible basis for a treaty on Access to Knowledge. The text
was prepared in response to an August 2004 proposal by Argentina
and Brazil for a WIPO Development Agenda, that included in its
original proposal, a possible treaty on access to knowledge. The
process that created this specific draft text included three
elements.
Border & Customs Regulations
Section IV of Part III of the TRIPS Agreement impose certain obligations to WTO Member States relating to border measures that may require custom authorities interventions in cases of importation of infringing goods. However, as the rest of Part III it also allows considerable flexibility to WTO Members States in implementing its obligations.
Compulsory licensing of copyright under Article 44.2 of the TRIPS, in light of eBay
May 28th, 2007 by James Love
TRIPS Provisions on Enforcement
Written by Judit Rius Sanjuan
The most important international intellectual property agreement regulating remedies for intellectual property infringement is the 1994 WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement).
Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting
What Are Counterfeit Medicines?
The definition of a counterfeit medicine is not well established. In 1992, the WHO defined a counterfeit medicine as: “a medicine which is deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to identity and/or source." Under this definition, it is the deliberate mislabeling of a drug or medicine which makes it a counterfeit. The US FDA uses a similar definition,