Joint Submission by Sean Flynn, Cynthia Ho, David Levine, Gabriel Levitt, Heesob Nam, Alina Ng, and Andrew Rens This statement calls on the High-Level Panel to promote policy coherence in the international intellectual property, human rights and global health system…
[IP Watch, Link (CC-BY)] Today, United States President Barack Obama sent two signed multilateral copyright treaties negotiated at the World Intellectual Property Organization to the US Senate for ratification. The treaties are the 2012 Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances and…
Four companies to help speed access to curative direct-acting antiviral in 112 low- and middle-income countries [MPP Press release, Link, (CC-BY-NC-ND)] Geneva, 20 January 2016 – The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced its first round of sub-licences for the generic…
[Electronic Information for Libraries, Link (CC-BY)] The 31st session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR), that met in Geneva from 7 to 11 December 2015, had a full agenda that included discussion on the protection of…
The United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines is calling for contributions by interested stakeholders that address the misalignment between the rights of inventors, international human rights law, trade rules and public health where it impedes the innovation…
Document presented by the Group of Latin American and Caribbean Countries (GRULAC) to the 31 Session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Full Document (PDF) Introduction: GRULAC presents a proposal of discussion on questions regarding the update…
Statement of Sean Flynn, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: Thirty-First Session December 7-11, 2015 (Geneva, Switzerland) Thank you for recognizing me on the issue of promoting limitations and exceptions for educational…
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Link (CC-BY) Executive Summary: Education is the key to economic, social and environmental progress, and governments around the world are looking to improve their education systems. The future of education in the 21st century…
Excerpt from “Toward HIV Treatment on Demand for All: Closing the Gap Between Science and Policy.” Health GAP Global Policy Analysis. December 2015. High price of newer, improved medicines: While the price of many antiretroviral medicines has decreased significantly over…
[Cross posted from the Communia Assoc., Link (CC-0)] How to secure user rights in education? This was the question we asked during a policy debate organised by Communia and hosted by MEP Michał Boni in the European Parliament on the…
WTO negotiators have agreed to extend a moratorium on “non-violation and situation” complaints under the organisation’s intellectual property rules for an additional two years, forwarding the planned decision to the global trade body’s upcoming ministerial conference for adoption. The news…
Joint Statement by 14 Civil Society Groups Reposted from the Third World Network, Link Today (6th November), the WTO-TRIPS Council adopted a decision granting Least Developed Countries (LDCs) an exemption from patents and test data protection for pharmaceutical products for…