[Mark Schweizer for IP Kat, Link (CC-BY)] According to its media release of 11 July 2017, the German Federal Court of Justice confirmed the decision of the Federal Patent Court granting Merck a compulsory license to EP 1 422 218 owned by Shionogi.…
Inside U.S. Trade reports on a Capitol Hill event on digital trade and the NAFTA renegotation at which Sen. Wyden made the following remark regarding copyright: “NAFTA 2.0 must take a balanced approach to copyright that ensures the free flow…
Monika Ermert, IP-Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA) The European Parliament today with over 600 votes adopted the legal instruments to ratify the Marrakesh Treaty on access to reading material for the visually impaired. The treaty, adopted by the members of the World…
[PIJIP Staff] On June 14th, 2017, the International Union of Operating Engineers Stationary Engineers Local 39 Health and Welfare Trust Fund, The Detectives’ Endowment Association, Inc., and David Mitchell (“Plaintiffs”) filed a class action antitrust complaint against Celgene Corporation (“Celgene”)…
[María Juliana Soto, Karisma, Link (CC-BY)] Karisma Foundation, a Colombian civil society organization, is launching a crowdfunding campaign to support Diego Gómez, a biologist accused of copyright infringement for sharing a scientific research online. When he was a college student…
Tabitha Ha, Stop AIDS, Link In the past month, I joined two major global gatherings for multiple stakeholders, including high-level government representatives, to tackle the issue of high drug prices as well as access to medicines more broadly. What struck…
Paving the way for parallel imports to exert downward pressure on domestic pharmaceutical (and other) prices [Frederick M Abbott*, IP Watch, Link (CC-BY-SA)] The Supreme Court of the United States on May 30, 2017 adopted a rule of international exhaustion…
[Fundación Karisma, Link (CC-BY-SA)] Hoy, después de más de tres años de iniciado el proceso penal, el Juzgado 49 Penal del Circuito dictó sentido del fallo a favor del biólogo Diego Gómez, en un proceso penal que habría podido significarle…
Timothy Vollmer, Creative Commons, Link (CC-BY) Diego Gómez, the Colombian student who for the last three years has been prosecuted for sharing an academic paper online, has been cleared of criminal charges. The decision was delivered today by a judge…
[Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch, Link (CC-BY-NC-SA)] A group of civil society organisations and health experts have sent a letter to delegates to this month’s annual World Health Assembly urging support for a study on the delinkage of the costs…
[Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge press release, Link (CC-BY)] In a move that could strike down barriers to treatment for the exploding hepatitis C epidemic that kills 700,000 people every year, attorneys and scientists from the Initiative for Medicines,…
Agreement seeks to improve health options for hepatitis C patients in low- and middle-income countries [Medicines Patent Pool Press Release, Link] Amsterdam, Netherlands, 21 April 2017 —The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced a new licence and technology transfer agreement…