After a long campaign by right-to-health activists and TPP partners, it appears that the U.S. has finally dropped its efforts in TPP negotiations to require patent coverage for new forms of known products that lack evidence of enhanced efficacy. The…
Author: Niva Elkin-Koren Abstract: The rights of users of copyrighted materials are growing in significance. This is the result of fundamental changes in the creative ecosystem that pull in opposite directions: on the one hand, the flourishing of user-generated content…
Knowledge Ecology International has leaked the Trans Pacific Partnership draft chapter on intellectual property, dated May 11, 2015. They have also posted Director James Love’s initial comments on the patents and test data provisions, as well as his comments on…
[Cross posted from Public Citizen, Link] In December 2013, Gilead received FDA approval for the first in a new generation of hepatitis C treatments. By all accounts, these treatments represent a cure for patients living with hepatitis C. Since the…