Luis Villarroel

Luis Villarroel

Luis Villarroel Director of Innovarte a latam research and advocacy center for ip for development. Consultant on IP matters. Professor of IP at Universidad Mayor, former IP advisor for the Ministry of Education of Chile and the Intellectual Property Office of Ecuador IEPI. Former Vice Chair of WIPO Copyright and related rights standing Comitee. Co author of the Exceptions and Limitatios Study for the Apec; Presented the WIPO Exceptions and Limitations Agenda in 2004. Negotiated the Marrakech Treaty on Behalf Ecuador. Resource person for the International Federation of Libraries IFLA. Member of the Advisory Comite of EIFL IP program. Former Judge of the Industrial Property Court of Chile

Chilean Congress Supports INDIA and South Africa request at TRIPS COUNCIL

Today the Camara de Diputados ( House of Representatives) of Chile approved a resolution asking the Chilean government to support at the TRIPS council the moratoria of the trips obligations regard to vaccines and therapies for Covid in the terms proposed by India and South Africa. The resolution also request further support on the implementation of C - TAP.

Patients and Parliamentarians ask Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to Support a Petition for Compulsory Licenses for Patents Related to Hepatitis C and Cancer Drugs

Representatives of Corporacion Innovarte, Patient Foundation Nuevo Renacer, Pharmaceutical Chemists Guild, and cancer and hepatitis patients attended the Presidential Palace “La Moneda” on November 10th to deliver a letter to the Chilean President of the Republic, Michelle Bachelet, asking her to instruct…