Impact on Access to Medicines and Knowledge

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Sponsored by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law

This event will inform the media and the larger public about the issues at stake in the meeting of trade negotiators on intellectual property issues taking place at the Kennedy Hotel in Downtown Santiago the week of April 9-14, 2012. Click here for a printable (PDF) copy of the agenda.

Agenda

9:00 Opening Remarks: 

  • Senator Ricardo Lagos Weber
  • Ana Novik, DIRECON
  • Alvaro Díaz, CEPAL

 
10:40 Networking coffee 

 
11:00 Distorting balance between patent rights and access to and production of medicines 

  • Dr. Luigi Palombi, Australian National University. (30 min) [videoconf.]
  • José Luis Cárdenas, Universidad de Chile (30 min)
  • Krista Cox, Knowledge Ecology International (TBC)
12:00 Copyrights and Access to Knowledge 

  • Sean Flynn, American University, The New Politics and Economics of Copyright in the Digital Environment (30 min)
  • Luis Villarroel,  Innovarte, Universidad Mayor (20 min)
  • Daniel Álvarez, Universidad de Chile, NGO Derechos Digitales (20 min)

 
13:00 Closing

 

Break

 

15:00 TPP Assessment: Access to Knowledge. 

  • Daniel Alvarez
  • Javier Tapia
  • Sean Flynn

 
16:00 TPP Assessment: Access to Medicines 

  • José Luis Cárdenas
  • Gabriel Zaliaznik
  • Krista Cox
  • Fabiana Jorge

 
17:00 Closing